ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,645, issued on May 6, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Catheter insertion-tray systems and methods thereof" was invented by John Gohde (Decatur, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheterization package including a catheterization tray and contents for a catheterization procedure. The catheterization tray can include a structural configuration for maintaining a sterile field about a patient throughout the catheterization procedure, the sterile field including at least a portion of the tray. The structural configuration of the tray can provide a sterile side of the tray designated for a first person performi...