ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,706, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to INTERRAD Medical Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).
"Anchoring a medical instrument" was invented by Michael S. Rosenberg (Eagan, Minn.), Mark R. Christianson (Plymouth, Minn.), Kyle P. Taylor (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Andrew T. Forsberg (Plymouth, Minn.) and Edward A. Barlow (Bloomington, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of a medical anchor device include an elongate body coupled with deployable subcutaneous anchors to secure a catheter instrument (or other medical instrument) in place relative to a skin penetration point. In some circumstances, the elongate body may be in the form of ...