ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,237, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Application of antimicrobial agents to medical devices" was invented by Murtaza Y. Amin (Farmington, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Invasive medical devices including a substantially non-eluting antimicrobial treatment. One or more external and/or internal surfaces of the medical device include a substantially non-eluting copper-coated surface that assists in preventing microbial colonization of the coated surface. This in turn reduces the incidence of infection to the patient originating from the medical device. In one embodiment, a catheter assemb...