US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Feb. 10 for "Intravenous catheter device having a guidewire for actively repositioning a catheter tip" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,543, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Intravenous catheter device having a guidewire for actively repositioning a catheter tip" was invented by Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Justin G. Hortin (Farmington, Utah) and Lisa Bailey (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravenous catheter device may include a guidewire for actively repositioning the catheter tip. A guidewire assembly may be configured to enable a clinician to actively reposition the catheter tip by moving proximal ends of segments of the guidewire. By repositioning the catheter tip, the guidewire a...