US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on March 3 for "Spatially aware medical device configured for performance of insertion pathway approximation" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,373, issued on March 3, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Spatially aware medical device configured for performance of insertion pathway approximation" was invented by William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah), Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City) and Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound-imaging system is disclosed that includes an ultrasound probe and a console. The ultrasound probe includes an array of ultrasonic transducers configured to emit generated ultrasound signals into a patient, receive reflected ultrasound signals, and convert the reflected ultrasound sig...