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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2019
Smiths Medical Asd, Inc., Plymouth, MN (US);
Gursel Akcay, Killingworth, CT (US);
Jay T. Breindel, Branford, CT (US);
Harsh D. Chheda, Cheshire, CT (US);
Kathryn Felicito, Cheshire, CT (US);
David J. Goral, Brookfield, CT (US);
Thomas T. Koehler, Simsbury, CT (US);
Christopher Roehl, New Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
A safety catheter insertion assembly configured to inhibit access to the distal tip of a needle cannula prior to release of a catheter insertion assembly from a catheter hub. The safety catheter insertion assembly including a catheter assembly having an elastomeric blood control valve and a catheter insertion device having a safety clip, the safety clip movable between an expanded configuration in which a portion of the safety clip applies a compressive force to a portion of the elastomeric blood control valve, and a collapsed configuration in which the compressive force is reduced and release of the safety clip from the elastomeric blood control valve is enabled.