US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on May 27 for "Tubular instrument to reduce vein trauma and related devices and methods" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,131, issued on May 27, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Tubular instrument to reduce vein trauma and related devices and methods" was invented by Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Curtis H. Blanchard (Riverton, Utah), Megan Scherich (Salt Lake City), Weston F. Harding (Lehi, Utah), Joseph Spataro (Cottonwood Heights, Utah), Yiping Ma (Layton, Utah) and S. Ray Isaacson (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery device to deliver a tubular instrument into a catheter extending distally from a catheter adapter. The delivery device may include a housing configured to couple to the cathe...