US Patent Issued to C. R. Bard on July 21 for "Package and method of use for managing excess laser fiber" (Utah, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,549, issued on July 21, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Package and method of use for managing excess laser fiber" was invented by Paul Thomas Mannion (Eliot, Maine) and Alex Ivlev (Milcreek, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a laser fiber surrounded by tubular package, the tubular package having a plurality of sections along a length of the tubular package, each of the plurality of sections connected to an adjacent section by a circumferential tear line, each of the plurality of sections including a length marking."

The patent was filed on May 11, 2022, under Application No. 18/290,444...