US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on March 3 for "Eccentric single-core fiber-optic enabled medical device" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,340, issued on March 3, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Eccentric single-core fiber-optic enabled medical device" 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 are medical systems, devices, and methods for performing vascular treatments and diagnoses. A vascular device include an optical fiber including a single fiber core disposed offset from a central axis of the optical fiber. The single fiber enables logic of the system to perform determine multiple conditions of the d...