US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on July 7 for "Integrated catheter-placement devices and methods for mitigating blood egress" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,185, issued on July 7, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Integrated catheter-placement devices and methods for mitigating blood egress" was invented by Lori L. Hartley (Salt Lake City), Glade H. Howell (Draper, Utah), Eric W. Lindekugel (Salt Lake City) and Bradley J. VanderStek (West Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are integrated catheter-placement devices and methods thereof. An exemplary device includes an intravascular catheter, a needle, an access guidewire, and a blood egress-mitigating means for mitigating blood egress from the device. The intravascular catheter includes...