US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Sept. 22 for "Two-piece catheters and methods thereof" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,119, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Two-piece catheters 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 herein are two-piece catheters and methods thereof. For example, a two-piece catheter can include a proximal catheter piece and a distal catheter piece. The proximal catheter piece includes a proximal catheter-hub piece and one or more extension legs respectively including one or more extension-leg lumens. Each extension leg of the one-or-more extension legs is coupled to the proximal cathe...