US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on July 8 for "Systems and methods of facilitating instrument delivery to a catheter assembly" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,461, issued on July 8, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Systems and methods of facilitating instrument delivery to a catheter assembly" was invented by Weston F. Harding (Lehi, Utah), Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Curtis H. Blanchard (Riverton, Utah), John Cendagorta (Draper, Utah), Austin Jason McKinnon (Herriman, Utah), Joseph Spataro (Cottonwood Heights, Utah) and Cristian Clavijo (Lehi, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter adapter may include a distal end, a proximal end, a lumen extending between the distal end and the proximal end, and a side port. A central axis of a fluid p...