US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on June 2 for "Catheter system having a push button needle retraction mechanism" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,943, issued on June 2, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Catheter system having a push button needle retraction mechanism" was invented by Deepan Vikash (Tamil Nadu, India), Sakthivel Karthikeyan (Coimbatore, India), S. Ray Isaacson (Layton, Utah), Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Sridhaar Nandakumar (Tamil Nadu, India) and Prasad Govindaraj (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter system may include a catheter assembly, which may include a catheter adapter and a catheter. The catheter system may include a needle assembly, a barrel, an introducer needle comprising a sharp dis...