US Patent Issued to Voyager Biomedical on March 24 for "External needle guide and anchor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,436, issued on March 24, was assigned to Voyager Biomedical Inc. (Houston).

"External needle guide and anchor" was invented by Ashok Gowda (Houston), Kimberly Marie Neely (Houston), Charles Houssiere (Houston), Alan Glowczwski (College Station, Texas) and Justin Lynn Glowczwski (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external needle guide can include a skin contact portion for attaching to skin of a patient and a needle guide portion for guiding a needle into a vessel of the patient. The external needle guide provides an accurate placement of a needle into the vessel (e.g., a good puncture), which reduces the failures of th...