US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on March 25 for "Ergonomic IV systems and methods" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,405, issued on March 25, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Ergonomic IV systems and methods" was invented by Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Bart D. Peterson (Farmington, Utah), Huibin Liu (West Jordan, Utah), Stephen T. Bornhoft (Raynham, Mass.), Weston F. Harding (Lehi, Utah), Young Zhang (Shanghai), Ralph L. Sonderegger (Farmington, Utah) and Bin Wang (Sandy, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IV catheter system may have a catheter component with a catheter hub, a cannula extending distally from the catheter hub, and a push feature protruding outwardly from the catheter hub. The IV cat...