US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The General Hospital on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for portable ultrasound guided cannulation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,863, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for portable ultrasound guided cannulation" was invented by Laura J. Brattain (Cambridge, Mass.), Anthony E. Samir (Cambridge, Mass.), Brian A. Telfer (Cambridge, Mass.), Nancy DeLosa (Cambridge, Mass.), Lars Gjesteby (Cambridge, Mass.), Theodore T. Pierce (Cambridge, Mass.), Matthew Johnson (Cambridge, Mass.), Westin Hill (Cambridge, Mass.) and Andres Chamorro (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for semi-automated, portable, ultras...