US Patent Issued to B. Braun Melsungen on May 6 for "Method for checking a position and/or an orientation of a catheter tip of a catheter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,349, issued on May 6, was assigned to B. Braun Melsungen AG (Melsungen, Germany).

"Method for checking a position and/or an orientation of a catheter tip of a catheter" was invented by Jens Wildhagen (Hannover, Germany), David Thalmann (Kaufungen, Germany) and Dejana Vukovic (Melsungen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking a position and/or an orientation of a catheter tip of a catheter, in particular a central venous catheter, in a patient's body, a medical system set up for carrying out such a method, and a use of such a method during a catheterization."

The patent was filed on Feb. 21, 2022, under Applicat...