US Patent Issued to TELEFLEX MEDICAL on Feb. 17 for "Vascular access training simulator system and transparent anatomical model" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,494, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TELEFLEX MEDICAL LLC (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Vascular access training simulator system and transparent anatomical model" was invented by Benjamin Horst (Lititz, Pa.), Mark Spinka (Jenkintown, Pa.) and Jacob Ammarell (Leesport, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vascular access training simulator system for training intravascular insertion of a medical device is disclosed. The vascular access training simulator system includes an anatomical training model having clinically relevant ultrasonic properties representative of ultrasonic properties of a human body site for ultrasound imaging. The trai...