ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,181, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Automatic vessel detection tools and methods" was invented by Matthew J. Prince (Herriman, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an ultrasound system for accessing a vasculature of a patient. The ultrasound system is configured to depict an enhanced ultrasound image of a subcutaneous portion of the patient including an icon surrounding a target vessel depicted on the display. The icon indicates to a clinician the target vessel is within range of a percentage vessel occupancy or vessel purchase length depending on a size of cannula or...