ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,557, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Medical device system having blood vessel correlation tools" was invented by Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City), William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah) and Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical device system configured to detect one or more blood vessels within a target area. The medical device system includes an ultrasound probe configured to detect one or more blood vessels, the ultrasound probe in communication with a console. The medical device system further includes one or more blood ve...