US Patent Issued to ICU MEDICAL on Sept. 15 for "Closed system catheter" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,330, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ICU MEDICAL INC. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Closed system catheter" was invented by James Edward Abitabilo (Bristol, Conn.), Gursel Akcay (Madison, Conn.), Jay T. Breindel (Branford, Conn.), Harsh D. Chheda (Cheshire, Conn.), Kathryn Felicito (Cheshire, Conn.), David J. Goral (Brookfield, Conn.), James Muskatello (Southington, Conn.) and Christopher Roehl (New Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter hub assembly. The catheter hub assembly includes a catheter hub body, a septum and a septum retainer, the catheter hub body having a distal end, a proximal and an internal wall def...