US Patent Issued to INTERRAD Medical on Sept. 1 for "Anchor instrumentation and methods" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,973, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to INTERRAD Medical Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).

"Anchor instrumentation and methods" was invented by Michael S. Rosenberg (Eagan, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of a medical device anchor system includes an anchor sleeve and a catheter (or other medical instrument) to advance though a working channel of the anchor sleeve. The anchor sleeve may have a subcutaneous cuff device arranged along an outer surface. In such circumstances, the embedded cuff device can inhibit the migration of infection from outside the skin and into the blood stream."

The patent was filed on Sept. 2, 202...