ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,975, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Methods and applications for providing educational guidance for peripheral IV therapy" was invented by Reshma C. Girijavallabhan (Whippany, N.J.), Michael S. Ferrara (Wyckoff, N.J.), Judith A. LaJoie (Freehold, N.J.), Shannon Hillyer (Old Saybrook, Conn.), Susan Fleming (Toronto) and Ajoy C. Mahtab (Devon, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and applications for providing a user with educational guidance for peripheral IV therapy are described. In one example, a computer-implemented method for providing educational guid...