ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,995, issued on June 16, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Septum housing" was invented by Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Daniel Kirk Hyer (Alpine, Utah), Bin Wang (Irvine, Calif.), Tyler Warner (Bluffdale, Utah), Ralph L. Sonderegger (Farmington, Utah), Eric Davis (Smithfield, Utah) and Carl Ellis (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter assembly may include a catheter adapter, a septum housing, and a septum. The catheter adapter may include a distal end, a proximal end, an inner wall extending between the distal end and the proximal end, and a lumen formed by the inner wall. ...