US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Dec. 9 for "Anatomical oscillation and fluctuation sensing and confirmation system" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,937, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Anatomical oscillation and fluctuation sensing and confirmation system" was invented by Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City), Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah), William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah) and Shayne Messerly (Kaysville, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system and method directed to detecting placement of a medical device within a patient body, where the system includes a medical device including an optical fiber having core fibers, each of the one or more core fibers including a plurality of sensors each configur...