US Patent Issued to Avent on March 3 for "Configurable system and method for indicating deviation from a medical device placement pathway" (New York, Georgia, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,450, issued on March 3, was assigned to Avent Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Configurable system and method for indicating deviation from a medical device placement pathway" was invented by Hilton M. Kaplan (New York), Gabriel P. Artaud (East Windsor, N.J.), Karl Thomas Bjurbo (Cumming, Ga.), Sung W. Jeon (Johns Creek, Ga.), Shawn G. Purnell (Canton, Ga.) and Anthony D. Roberts (Woodstock, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configurable pathway deviation indication system for medical device placement includes one or more user-adjustable pathway boundaries and an indication activated upon reaching or breaching of any of the pathway bounda...