US Patent Issued to Qathex on Sept. 8 for "Catheter extraction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,914, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Qathex LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Catheter extraction" was invented by Gabriel Herscu (Livermore, Calif.), Curt Toppel (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Elmer Tolentino (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter extraction tool has a head that can be placed in position to significantly surround a diameter of a catheter. The head is shaped to have a low enough profile above the catheter to allow the head to be slid down the catheter and into a subdermal region in which the catheter is subdermal with respect to a patient. The head of the catheter extraction tool is expanded sufficien...