ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,375, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to X9 Inc. (Wallingford, Conn.).
"Vascular access device and methods" was invented by Eric Taylor (West Harford, Conn.), Brock Kopp (Garden City, Idaho), Alok Agrawal (New Haven, Conn.), Sean Casley (Branford, Conn.), Pablo Acosta (Newark, Calif.), Russell Pribanic (Roxbury, Conn.), Earl Bright II (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jonathan Podmore (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for delivering needles or catheters within target tissue including an apparatus that includes or a method involving, structure configured for placing a needle, a catheter or a cannula to provid...