US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for preventing or treating vascular access device-related thrombosis" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,086, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Systems and methods for preventing or treating vascular access device-related thrombosis" was invented by Matthew J. Prince (Herriman, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for preventing or treating vascular access device ("VAD")-related thrombosis can include an ultrasound transducer configured to emit thrombus-fragmenting ultrasound into a patient about a VAD. The ultrasound transducer can include a securing means for securing the ultrasound transducer to the patient over the VAD. A method of such a system can include an ultrasound-emitting ...