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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2022
Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Justin Bechstein, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Glade H. Howell, Draper, UT (US);
Daniel B. Blanchard, Bountiful, UT (US);
Eric W. Lindekugel, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Kyle G. Thornley, Farmington, UT (US);
Christopher J. Murray, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Joshua Funamura, Oakland, CA (US);
Carter Biviano, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Sharon West, Elkins Park, PA (US);
Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are couplers and assemblies thereof for rapidly insertable central catheters ('RICCs'). For example, a coupler assembly can include an introducer needle and a coupler coupled together. The introducer needle can include a needle hub over both a needle shaft and a sheath over the needle shaft. The needle shaft can include a longitudinal needle slot extending through a distal needle tip. The sheath can seal the needle slot thereunder except for the needle slot under a sheath opening in a proximal portion of the sheath. The needle hub can include a needle-hub clip. The coupler can include a coupler housing and an extension arm connected to the coupler housing. The needle-hub clip can be clipped onto the coupler housing in at least a ready-to-deploy state of the coupler assembly. The extension arm can be configured for attaching a proximal end of an access guidewire thereto.