US Patent Issued to Avent on Sept. 22 for "System and method for detecting medical device location and orientation in relation to patient anatomy" (Georgia, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,121, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Avent Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"System and method for detecting medical device location and orientation in relation to patient anatomy" was invented by Karl Thomas Bjurbo (Cumming, Ga.), Anthony D. Roberts (Canton, Ga.), Shawn G. Purnell (Sandy Springs, Ga.) and Vlad Bluvshtein (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device position guidance system includes at least one reference transmitter, a receiver system comprising at least two sensors configured to receive signals from the at least one reference transmitter and move relative to the at least one reference transmitter, a...