US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Oct. 6 for "Magnetic trajectory prediction and position identification" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,083, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Magnetic trajectory prediction and position identification" was invented by Huy Ngoc Tran (Riverton, Utah), Jordan P. Diamond (Salt Lake City), Paul T. Westwood (Kaysville, Utah), Andrew J. Lengyel (Sandy, Utah), Trevor Teerlink (Salt Lake City) and Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to trackable medical device, e.g. a catheter placement system, having a needle formed of a magnetizable material, and magnetized to produce a magnetic field having a magnetic field strength or a magne...