US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on June 17 for "Systems and methods to improve instrument guidance within an intravenous catheter assembly" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,917, issued on June 17, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Systems and methods to improve instrument guidance within an intravenous catheter assembly" was invented by Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Bryan Fred Bihlmaier (Provo, Utah) and Shaun Staley (Murray, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter assembly and/or an introducer may include one or more features configured to guide a probe and/or a catheter distally through a septum. The catheter assembly may include a catheter adapter and the septum. The catheter adapter may include a distal end, a proximal end, and a lumen extending ther...