US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on July 8 for "Catheter system facilitating blood flashback visualization" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,453, issued on July 8, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Catheter system facilitating blood flashback visualization" was invented by Mohankumar Natesan (Singapore) and Jithendra Kumar Sathyanarayana Naidu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter system may include a catheter assembly, which may include a catheter adapter and a catheter. The catheter system may also include a needle assembly, which may include a needle hub and an introducer needle. A proximal end of the introducer needle may be secured within the needle hub, and a distal end of the introducer needle may extend beyond a distal...