US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Sept. 15 for "Compact insertion assemblies of rapidly insertable central catheters and methods thereof" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,331, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Compact insertion assemblies of rapidly insertable central catheters and methods thereof" was invented by Glade H. Howell (Draper, Utah), Daniel B. Blanchard (Bountiful, Utah), Jason R. Stats (Layton, Utah), Kyle G. Thornley (Farmington, Utah), Joe Spataro (Cottonwood Heights, Utah) and Eric W. Lindekugel (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compact rapidly insertable central catheter ("RICC") insertion assemblies and methods. For example, a RICC insertion assembly can include a RICC, an introducer assembly, an access guidewi...