US Patent Issued to B. Braun Melsungen on May 26 for "Method for determining a position of a catheter tip of a catheter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,899, issued on May 26, was assigned to B. Braun Melsungen AG (Melsungen, Germany).

"Method for determining a position of a catheter tip of a catheter" was invented by Jens Wildhagen (Hannover, Germany), David Thalmann (Kaufungen, Germany) and Dejana Vukovic (Melsungen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a position of a catheter tip of a catheter, more particularly of a central venous catheter, in the body of a patient, a medical system equipped to carry out such a method, and the use of the method in catheterization."

The patent was filed on Feb. 21, 2022, under Application No. 18/277,166.

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