ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,283, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Malposition detection system" was invented by Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah), Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City) and William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus and method directed to detecting malposition of a medical device within a vessel of a patient, such as an Azygos vein. The medical device can include a multi-core optical fiber including a plurality of core fibers, where each of the plurality of core fibers includes a plurality of sensors is configured to reflect a light signal based on rec...