US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on July 22 for "Intravenous catheter device having a probe assembly with an integrated fluid flushing mechanism" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,421, issued on July 22, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Intravenous catheter device having a probe assembly with an integrated fluid flushing mechanism" was invented by Curtis H. Blanchard (Riverton, Utah), Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Megan Scherich (Salt Lake City), Weston F. Harding (Lehi, Utah), Yiping Ma (Layton, Utah) and Benjamin Hopwood (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IV catheter device can include or being configured to employ a probe assembly having an integrated fluid flushing mechanism. The probe assembly can be configured in a variety of ways to cause flushi...