ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,427, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Medical-device magnetizer systems and methods" 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: "Disclosed herein are medical-device magnetizer systems and methods. In an example, a magnetizer system can be configured to impart one or more magnetic signatures to a medical device having ferrous elements for medical-device tracking. Such a magnetizer system can include, in some embodiments, a magnetizer. The magnetizer can have an elongate ...