US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Aug. 5 for "Optimized functionality through interoperation of doppler and image based vessel differentiation" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,817, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Optimized functionality through interoperation of doppler and image based vessel differentiation" 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: "An ultrasound-imaging system includes an ultrasound probe coupled with a console. Operations of the system can include detecting one or more blood vessels within the ultrasound image and identifying each blood vessel as a vein, an artery or other anatomic element using doppler ultrasound functio...