US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on July 21 for "Conductor incorporated fiber enabled medical systems" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,595, issued on July 21, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Conductor incorporated fiber enabled medical systems" 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: "Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a fiber-optically enabled medical device system including an optical fiber and one or more conductive elements. The optical fiber is configured to determine a shape of the medical device as the device negotiates tortuous vascular pathways. The one or more conductive elements can be configured...