US Patent Issued to A Little Cold Gel on Feb. 4 for "Methods and systems for detecting intravascular device failure" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,870, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to A Little Cold Gel LLC (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for detecting intravascular device failure" was invented by Amit Bahl (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Steven Johnson (Claremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic system to aid in diagnosing conditions underneath a subject's skin that predict intravascular device failure is provided. The diagnostic system includes an ultrasound unit that uses ultrasonic energy to obtain images underneath the subject's skin surrounding the insertion site of an intravascular device. The ultrasound unit is in electronic communicatio...