US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on July 28 for "Portal-establishing devices and methods thereof for establishing portals in procedural barriers" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,935, issued on July 28, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Portal-establishing devices and methods thereof for establishing portals in procedural barriers" was invented by Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City) and Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are portal-establishing devices and methods thereof for establishing portals in procedural barriers. For example, a portal-establishing device includes a portal and a breaching mechanism. The portal includes a portal barrier in a protruding-end portion thereof. The portal is configured to enable one or more functional con...