ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,193, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc..

"Medical delivery assembly with multi-port needle" was invented by Sivaramakrishnan Balasubramanian (Cary, N.C.), Christopher Anthony Basciano (Apex, N.C.), Christopher Dean Drobnik (Wauconda, Ill.), Casey Tyler Hebert (Loveland, Colo.), Brandon David Simmons (Tempe, Ariz.), Nathan Spangenberg (Cary, N.C.), Amanda Thystrup (Phoenix) and Mark Nicholas Wright (Coventry, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery assembly includes a console including a vial containment region and a vial engagement mechanism extending from the console within the vial containment r...