US Patent Issued to INTERRAD Medical on Sept. 1 for "Subcutaneous anchor device for securing a catheter" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,972, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to INTERRAD Medical Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).

"Subcutaneous anchor device for securing a catheter" was invented by Michael S. Rosenberg (Eagan, Minn.), Mark R. Christianson (Plymouth, Minn.), Kyle P. Taylor (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Andrew T. Forsberg (Plymouth, Minn.) and Jeffrey D. Killion (Orono, Minn.).

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 receives a medical instrument (such as a catheter or the like) and secures the instrument in place relative to a skin penetration point. In some circumstances, the anchor device may allow t...