US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on April 29 for "Ultrasound imaging system having near-infrared/infrared detection" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,403, issued on April 29, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Ultrasound imaging system having near-infrared/infrared detection" was invented by Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City), William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah) and Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an ultrasound imaging system including an ultrasound probe and a blood vessel visualization device. The ultrasound probe includes an ultrasound generation device and is configured to detect one or more blood vessels. The blood vessel visualization device is configured to project a depiction of the blood ...