US Patent Issued to Bard Peripheral Vascular on April 14 for "Vial geometries for optimal mixing" (Colorado, Arizona, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,723, issued on April 14, was assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Vial geometries for optimal mixing" was invented by Casey Tyler Hebert (Loveland, Colo.), Amanda Thystrup (Phoenix), Brandon David Simmons (Tempe, Ariz.) and Mark Nicholas Wright (Coventry, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vial assembly includes a vial and a needle with at least one port. The vial includes a particulate material, a septum, a neck region including a first width, and a particulate region including a second width greater than the first width. The vial assembly is configured to move to a locked position. The needle may b...