ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,228, issued on March 31, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Access systems, devices, and methods thereof" was invented by Gokulrangarajan Sathyanarayanan (Coimbatore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are access systems, devices, and methods for internal access to a patient's body. For example, an access device for placing an acute dialysis catheter can include a frame; a housing, a pair of guidewire clamps, and a needle disposed on the frame; a dilator coupled to the frame, and an access guidewire in a ready-to-deploy state of the access device. The pair of guidewire clamps can be disposed on t...