US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Dec. 9 for "Medical-device visualization systems and methods utilizing patient-based reference framing for shape sensing" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,914, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Medical-device visualization systems and methods utilizing patient-based reference framing for shape sensing" was invented by Matthew Christopher Jon Donovan (Tempe, Ariz.) and Lindsey Michelle King (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical-device visualization systems and methods utilize patient-based reference framing to improve shape sensing for elongate medical devices. A medical-device visualization system includes, in some embodiments, a stylet, patient-wearable sensors, and a console. The stylet includes an optical fiber and a fi...