US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on April 21 for "System and method for a vessel assessment tool" (Utah, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,140, issued on April 21, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"System and method for a vessel assessment tool" was invented by Bart Peterson (Farmington, Utah), Bradley M. Wilkinson (North Haledon, N.J.), Kelly E. Harper (West Valley City, Utah), Tab Robbins (Layton, Utah) and Matthew J. Prince (Herriman, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a vessel assessment system configured to image a target vessel and determine which vascular access device (VAD) to use to access the target vessel while remaining within one or more insertion parameters of percentage vessel occupa...