US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on April 21 for "Two-piece rapidly insertable central catheters, introducers therefor, and methods thereof" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,528, issued on April 21, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Two-piece rapidly insertable central catheters, introducers therefor, and methods thereof" was invented by Glade H. Howell (Draper, Utah) and Jason R. Stats (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are two-piece rapidly insertable central catheter ("RICCs"), introducers, and methods. For example, an introducer and a distal catheter piece of a RICC can be combined in an introducer assembly configured to be actuated with a single finger of a hand while the introducer is held between a thumb and another finger or fingers of the same hand....