US Patent Issued to Bard Peripheral Vascular on June 30 for "Method and system for use in a lung access procedure to aid in preventing pneumothorax" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,350, issued on June 30, was assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Method and system for use in a lung access procedure to aid in preventing pneumothorax" was invented by Jordan Addison (Chandler, Ariz.), Nicholas Mowrey (Phoenix) and Heather Storm (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a lung access procedure to aid in preventing pneumothorax includes providing a cannula having a pair of balloons, the pair of balloons including a first balloon longitudinally spaced from a second balloon along the cannula; inserting the cannula along an access opening and through pleural layers, with t...