US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on June 10 for "Securement of hands-free ultrasound probe" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,704, issued on June 10, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Securement of hands-free ultrasound probe" was invented by William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah), Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City) and Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an ultrasound probe securement device to secure an ultrasound probe to a patient. The securement device can include a probe coupling mechanism to couple an ultrasound probe to the securement device, a patient coupling mechanism to couple the securement device to a patient, and a constraining mechanism to maintain an acoustic co...