US Patent Issued to Creare on Feb. 3 for "Penetrative medical access devices, and related methods and systems" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,141, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Creare LLC (Hanover, N.H.).

"Penetrative medical access devices, and related methods and systems" was invented by Michael D. Barton (Hanover, N.H.), Sheldon D. Stokes (Grantham, N.H.), Brynmor J. Davis (Etna, N.H.) and David R. Callender (Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Penetrative access devices for assisting users in performing any one or more of various medical procedures that require inserting a needle into a patient, such as for vascular access, pneumothorax decompression, catheterization, abscess draining, etc. In some embodiments, a penetrative access device of this disclosure...