US Patent Issued to Bard Peripheral Vascular on March 31 for "Implantable port placement system including low-scarring exterior" (Utah, Arizona, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,230, issued on March 31, was assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Implantable port placement system including low-scarring exterior" was invented by Christian Andersen (Queen Creek, Ariz.), Jason R. Stats (Layton, Utah), Trent Parry (Sandy, Utah), Jennifer C. Woo (Sandy, Utah) and Bryon Ray Densley (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for streamlining the port placement process. The placement system can simultaneously form an incision, dissect tissue, create a tissue pocket of the correct size for the port being placed, and place the port subcutaneously. In an embodimen...