US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on April 21 for "Integrated intravenous catheter having a side port for facilitating blood draw" (Singaporean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,096, issued on April 21, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Integrated intravenous catheter having a side port for facilitating blood draw" was invented by Jithendra Kumar Sathyanarayana Naidu (Woodlands, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated IV catheters can have a side port that facilities drawing blood. The side port provides separate fluid pathways for drawing blood and for injecting fluids via an extension set. The side port can be configured to allow the extension set to be primed while a blood sample is collected. In this way, the collection of a blood sample at the time of cathete...