ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,059, issued on May 12, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Multi-use blood control safety catheter assembly" was invented by Weston Harding (Lehi, Utah), Jon Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Huibin Liu (West Jordan, Utah), Ken Cluff (Saratoga Springs, Utah), Lawrence Trainer (Murray, Utah), Stephen Bornhoft (Sandy, Utah), Yiping Ma (Layton, Utah), Weston Whitaker (Riverton, Utah) and Ralph Sonderegger (Farmington, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter assembly comprises a catheter (18), a needle (12) having a sharp distal tip disposed within the catheter (18), a catheter hub (14) connected to the cathe...