US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on July 7 for "Catheter tip passive control device and related systems and methods" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,186, issued on July 7, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Catheter tip passive control device and related systems and methods" was invented by Shaun Staley (Murray, Utah), Megan Scherich (Salt Lake City), Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Yiping Ma (Layton, Utah) and Yueqiang Xue (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vascular access device to passively open a fluid path within a vasculature. The vascular access device may include a catheter and a guidewire. The catheter may have a proximal end, a tip, and a length of tubing therebetween. The guidewire may extend along the length of tubing and...