US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Sept. 1 for "Ultrasound training system" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,536, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Ultrasound training system" was invented by Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City), Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah) and William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an ultrasound training system that according to various embodiments includes an ultrasound probe, a vascular access device, and a patient simulation block. Logic of the system tracks the location and orientation of the probe and the vascular access device via magnetic tracking, fiber optic shape sensing, inertia measurement or any combination...