US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Nov. 11 for "Closed IV access device with paddle grip needle hub and flash chamber" (Utah, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,727, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Closed IV access device with paddle grip needle hub and flash chamber" was invented by Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Bart D. Peterson (Farmington, Utah), Bin Wang (Irvine, Calif.), Ralph L. Sonderegger (Farmington, Utah) and Tyler Warner (Bluffdale, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IV access device can include a needle hub that incorporates a flash chamber. The flash chamber can be used to provide visual confirmation of proper catheter placement within a vein. The flash chamber can include a path-defining structure to facilitate...