US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Oct. 7 for "Confirmation of catheter placement within a vein" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,037, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Confirmation of catheter placement within a vein" was invented by Yiping Ma (Layton, Utah), S. Ray Isaacson (Layton, Utah), Weston F. Harding (Lehi, Utah), Joseph Spataro (Cottonwood Heights, Utah), Huy Tran (Riverton, Utah), Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Mohankumar Natesan (Singapore), Kiat Jin Cheng (Singapore) and Kathryn Willybiro (Park City, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter system may include a catheter adapter, which may include a distal end and a proximal end. The catheter system may include a catheter, which may in...