US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Oct. 27 for "Rapidly insertable central catheters including catheter assemblies and methods thereof" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,533, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Rapidly insertable central catheters including catheter assemblies and methods thereof" was invented by Glade H. Howell (Draper, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rapidly insertable central catheters ("RICCs") including catheter assemblies and methods thereof are disclosed. A catheter assembly can include an introducer catheter, an introducer needle, and a RICC. The introducer needle can be disposed in an introducer-catheter lumen of the introducer catheter forming an introducer combination. The RICC can include a catheter tube including an introduc...