US Patent Issued to Bard Peripheral Vascular on Sept. 8 for "Introducer cannula having a pleural access liner for use in crossing pleural layers" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,909, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Introducer cannula having a pleural access liner for use in crossing pleural layers" was invented by Jordan Addison (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Heather Storm (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An introducer cannula for use in crossing pleural layers includes an elongate tubular member and a pleural access liner. The elongate tubular member has a proximal end, a distal end, and a side wall that longitudinally extends between the proximal end and the distal end. The side wall has an outer surface and an inner surface, wherein the inner surface ...