ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,176, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Fiber optic ultrasound probe" was invented by Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City), William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah) and Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system that includes an ultrasound imaging probe having a first optical fiber integrated therein and a console optically coupled with the ultrasound imaging probe via a first elongate member. The console includes one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon logic, that when executed by the one o...