US Patent Issued to Velano Vascular on April 14 for "Systems and methods for phlebotomy through a peripheral IV catheter" (Pennsylvania, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,324, issued on April 14, was assigned to Velano Vascular Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for phlebotomy through a peripheral IV catheter" was invented by Pitamber Devgon (Philadelphia), Richard Thomas Briganti (Bala Cynwyd, Pa.), Kenneth Todd Cassidy (Mocksville, N.C.), Marc-Alan Levine (Pottstown, Pa.) and Mark Martel (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a catheter, an introducer having a first member and a second member, a locking mechanism coupled to a distal end of the first member and configured to couple the introducer to a peripheral intravenous line, and an actuator coupled to ...