ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,055, issued on May 12, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Fiber optics oximetry system for detection and confirmation" was invented by William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah), Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City), Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah) and Shayne Messerly (Kaysville, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus and method directed to placing a medical instrument in a vasculature of a patient body, the system including an optical fiber with one or more core fibers. The system can include a console having non-transitory computer-readable medium storing logic that, when executed, causes ...