ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,311, issued on June 30, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Extended fiber optic sensing system" 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: "An elongate multi-core optical fiber instrument for insertion within a patient body includes a set of first optical fiber cores extending along a first sensing region of the multi-core optical fiber instrument, where each first optical fiber core includes a set of first sensors disposed along the first region and a set of second optical fiber cores exte...