ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,724, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Probe delivery device to facilitate the advancement and retraction of a probe within an intravenous catheter" was invented by Weston F. Harding (Lehi, Utah), Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Curtis H. Blanchard (Riverton, Utah), Megan Scherich (Salt Lake City) and Yiping Ma (Layton, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe delivery device can include a probe delivery mechanism that facilitates advancing a probe through an IV catheter. The probe delivery mechanism can be housed within a compartment of the probe delivery device and can ...