US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Feb. 17 for "Fiber optic enabled deployable medical devices for monitoring, assessment and capture of deployment information" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,288, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Fiber optic enabled deployable medical devices for monitoring, assessment and capture of deployment information" was invented by Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City), Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah) and William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system, apparatus and method directed to placing a medical instrument in a vasculature of a patient body. The optical fiber includes one or more core fibers. The system also includes a console having non-transitory computer-readable medium storing logic tha...