ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,734, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Blood draw device" was invented by Weston F. Harding (Lehi, Utah), Curtis H. Blanchard (Herriman, Utah), Lucas Farrar (Northborough, Mass.), Justin G. Hortin (Farmington, Utah), Ken L. Cluff (Lehi, Utah) and Yiping Ma (Layton, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood draw device includes a catheter, an introducer having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, an actuator movably coupled to the introducer, the actuator configured to move relative to the introducer to move the catheter between a first position, in which the catheter ...