US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Sept. 15 for "Non-uniform ultrasound image modification of targeted sub-regions" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,899, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Non-uniform ultrasound image modification of targeted sub-regions" was invented by Steffan Sowards (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 a non-uniform, targeted ultrasound image modification system. The system can image a target area using ultrasound and can determine one or more target locations within the target area. Further the system can determine a location and orientation of a medical device to overlay a trajectory onto the target area. A user can f...