US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on June 30 for "Systems and methods for visualizing anatomy, locating medical devices, or placing medical devices" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,329, issued on June 30, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Systems and methods for visualizing anatomy, locating medical devices, or placing medical devices" was invented by Tyler L. Durfee (Stansbury, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device-placing system including a medical-device tip-location sensor ("TLS") configured for placement on a chest of a patient, an ultrasound probe, a console, and an alternative-reality headset. The ultrasound probe can be configured to emit ultrasound signals into the patient and receive echoed ultrasound signals from the patient. The console can be configured to t...