US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Oct. 6 for "Blood draw device with anti-buckling feature" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,654, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Blood draw device with anti-buckling feature" was invented by Evan Barbour VandenBrink (San Mateo, Calif.), Weston F. Harding (Lehi, Utah), Curtis H. Blanchard (Herriman, Utah) and Megan S. Scherich (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood draw device for use with a peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) includes a catheter, an introducer, an actuator movably coupled to the introducer, with the actuator configured to move relative to the introducer to move the catheter between a first position, in which the distal end of the catheter...