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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2023
Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Joe Spataro, Cottonwood Heights, UT (US);
Kyle G. Thornley, Farmington, UT (US);
Eric W. Lindekugel, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Glade H. Howell, Draper, UT (US);
Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
Rapidly insertable central-catheter ('RICC') insertion assemblies and associated methods include valve modules. For example, a RICC insertion assembly can include a RICC, an introducer needle, and an access guidewire coupled together by a coupler in which a valve module is disposed. The introducer needle includes a needle shaft having a longitudinal needle slot and a sheath over the needle shaft sealing the needle slot thereunder except for that under a sheath opening of the sheath. The valve module includes an elastomeric gasket encircling at least a portion of a valve-module compartment of the coupler housing. In a ready-to-deploy state of the RICC insertion assembly, the gasket is compressed in the valve-module compartment around both the introducer needle and the access guidewire where the access guidewire extends from the sheath opening, thereby creating a substantially air-tight space within the gasket around the introducer needle and the access guidewire.