US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Aug. 5 for "Optical and electrical diagnostic systems and methods thereof" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,794, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Optical and electrical diagnostic systems and methods thereof" was invented by Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City), Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah) and William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical-and-electrical medical systems and methods thereof are disclosed. Such a medical system can include a console, an optical shape-sensing ("OSS") medical device including an optical-fiber stylet, one or more electrical medical devices, and a relay module for establishing one or more optical or electrical relay connections b...