ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,942, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Fiber optic enabled stylet" was invented by Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City) and William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter placement system that includes a catheter placement device having elongate body configured for insertion into a catheter lumen, where the elongate body includes a body lumen. A compartment at a proximal end of the body is in fluid communication with the body lumen. A saline solution disposed within the compartment and the body lumen defines an electrical path along the elongate body and...