ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,467, issued on July 8, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Cannula capture mechanism" was invented by Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City) and Siddarth Kamath Shevgoor (Mission Viejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cannula capture mechanism is described herein. The capture mechanism may include an inner housing, outer housing, and a cannula. The outer housing may be configured to move between a compressed and a decompressed state. An outer surface of the inner housing may include one or more interlock components. When the cannula is exposed from a distal end of the inner housing, the one or mo...