ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,112, issued on April 21, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Device for detecting a blood vessel" was invented by Likhith Nalluri (Brea, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood vessel detection device includes a pair of light sources that project lights having different wavelengths through the skin into a detection area of a patient and a photodetector that receives reflected lights originating from the light sources. Logic of a microcontroller of the device processes the intensity data related to the reflected lights having the different wavelengths to determine the presence of a blood vessel within th...