US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on June 3 for "Medical shape sensing devices and systems" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,149, issued on June 3, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Medical shape sensing devices and systems" was invented by Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah), Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City) and William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are medical systems and devices that include an elongate probe configured for insertion into a patient, where a multi-core optical fiber extends along the elongate probe. The optical fiber includes sensing core fibers that extend distally along a flexible distal tip section having a bending flexibility that exceeds a flexibility of ...