ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,127, issued on June 24, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Providing resistance to separation of a catheter adapter and a needle hub" was invented by Weston F. Harding (Lehi, Utah), Ralph L. Sonderegger (Farmington, Utah), Joseph Spataro (Cottonwood Heights, Utah), S. Ray Isaacson (Layton, Utah), Shaun Staley (Murray, Utah), Curtis H. Blanchard (Riverton, Utah), Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Bin Wang (Sandy, Utah) and Olivia Hu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter system may include a catheter adapter and a wing extending outwardly from the catheter adapter. The wing may includ...