US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Oct. 14 for "Catheter insertion device and method of inserting a catheter" (Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,628, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Catheter insertion device and method of inserting a catheter" was invented by Russell Cole (River Vale, N.J.), John Prudden (Manchester, Mass.) and J. Richard Gyory (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insulin infusion system is provided with a manual insertion device having a dual retraction spring (230) configuration for automatic introducer needle (222) retraction. A button (200) of the insertion device is used to insert the introducer needle (222) and catheter (202), and once the introducer needle (222) and catheter (202) have b...