US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Feb. 10 for "Integrated catheter system for blood draw at the time of placement and with enabling feature for blood draw during indwell" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,981, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Integrated catheter system for blood draw at the time of placement and with enabling feature for blood draw during indwell" was invented by Yiping Ma (Layton, Utah), Jeff Charles O'Bryan (Murray, Utah), Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City) and Curtis H. Blanchard (Herriman, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated peripheral intravenous (IV) catheter configured for blood draw both at the time of catheter placement and during catheter indwell. The peripheral IV catheter includes a catheter adapter having a catheter configured to be in...