US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on March 11 for "Needleless access connector facilitating instrument delivery to a catheter assembly" (Utah, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,157, issued on March 11, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Needleless access connector facilitating instrument delivery to a catheter assembly" was invented by Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Heena Dani (Middlesex, N.J.), Megan Scherich (Salt Lake City) and Derek Jewell (Cottonwood Heights, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needleless access connector may include a body, which may include a proximal end configured to couple to an instrument delivery device and a distal end configured to couple to a peripheral intravenous catheter assembly. The needleless access connector may also include ...