US Patent Issued to INDOMED on Sept. 1 for "Medical device" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,955, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to INDOMED Ltd. (Sandyford, Ireland).

"Medical device" was invented by Cormac Breatnach (Rathfarnham, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a medical device (20, 40, 60) for use in aiding the successful placement of a needle tip in a blood vessel. The medical device comprises a resiliently deformable collapsible body (21) defining a pressure chamber therein. The body further comprises a port (29) for engagement of a hub of a needle, the port defining a fluid passageway from the exterior of the body to the interior of the pressure chamber. The device further comprises mea...