US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on March 17 for "Catheter system having a guidewire slider" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,246, issued on March 17, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Catheter system having a guidewire slider" was invented by Karthik Mr (Bangalore, India), Balaji Kannan (Tamil Nadu, India), Sakthivel Karthikeyan (Coimbatore, India) and Jeevan Deshpande (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter system may include a catheter hub, a catheter tube, a needle carrier, a needle extending distally from the needle carrier and through the catheter tube, a guidewire slider, and a guidewire extending distally from the guidewire slider. The guidewire slider may be configured to couple to the needle car...