US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for tracking medical devices" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,101, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Systems and methods for tracking medical devices" was invented by Jeanette E. Southard (Castleconnell, Ireland), Matthew J. Prince (Herriman, Utah), Tab Robbins (Layton, Utah) and Tyler L. Durfee (Stansbury, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tracking medical devices such as needles and catheters. For example, an ultrasound-imaging system is configured to perform a set of operations for accessing a blood vessel, recommending a proper approach angle for approaching the blood vessel with the medical device, recommending a proper...