US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on July 8 for "RFID enabled medical devices and associated systems" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,738, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"RFID enabled medical devices and associated systems" was invented by Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City), William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah), Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah) and Shayne Messerly (Kaysville, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are RFID enabled medical device systems including an RFID emitter configured to provide an interrogation signal that impinges on an RFID tag associated with a medical device to trigger a response signal. The response signal can indicate and presence or absence of the medical device proxim...