Patent ID: 7931658

Claim:
A device for subcutaneously anchoring a removably coupled catheter device within a patient, comprising: a catheter retainer body including a catheter-receiving channel extending to a distal opening, and a deployable anchor section that is spaced apart from the catheter-receiving channel and that includes a curved anchor tine extending from a longitudinally straight rod portion attached to the catheter retainer body, wherein when the removably coupled catheter device is positioned through a skin puncture, the deployable anchor section is positioned through the same skin puncture to deploy the curved anchor tine subcutaneously along an underside of a skin layer in a controllable manner by flexibly adjusting the curved anchor tine so that a free end of the curved anchor tine is adapted to engage tissue along the underside of the skin layer, wherein a longitudinal length of the curved anchor tine extends outwardly away from the longitudinally straight rod portion with a longitudinal convex curvature extending toward the free end of the curved anchor tine such that the longitudinal convex curvature faces proximally toward catheter retainer body.