US Patent Issued to INTERRAD Medical on March 17 for "Systems and methods for anchoring medical devices" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,245, issued on March 17, was assigned to INTERRAD Medical Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for anchoring medical devices" was invented by Michael S. Rosenberg (Eagan, Minn.), Mark R. Christianson (Plymouth, Minn.), Andrew T. Forsberg (Plymouth, Minn.), Michael W. Augustine (St. Michael, Minn.) and Kim Jorgensen (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of a medical device anchor system include an anchor device that secures a medical instrument (such as a catheter or the like) in place relative to a skin penetration point using subcutaneous anchors. In some implementations, the medical instrument can be...