US Patent Issued to Yuanyin Teng on April 21 for "Implantable intravenous port with a passive anti-plugging mechanism" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,531, issued on April 21, was assigned to Yuanyin Teng (Hangzhou, China).

"Implantable intravenous port with a passive anti-plugging mechanism" was invented by Yuanyin Teng (Hangzhou, China), Mi Zhou (Chongqing, China), Bing Wang (Guangzhou, China), Haoran Huang (Wenzhou, China), Tong Wang (Storrs, Conn.), Yang Yang (Yiwu, China), Jiahui Du (Wenzhou, China), Benfan Lin (Linyi, China), Zihan Zhou (Yiwu, China) and Feng Xu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an implantable intravenous port with a passive anti-plugging mechanism, which comprises a port body defining a reservoir chamber and a communicating cathete...