ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,191, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Enclosures including systems and methods thereof for establishing a sterile environment for a medical procedure" was invented by Teresa Ta (Murray, Utah), Michael Davis (West Jordan, Utah), Kyle G. Thornley (Farmington, Utah), James D. Beal (South Jordan, Utah), Daniel B. Blanchard (Bountiful, Utah) and Glade H. Howell (Draper, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterile environment system can include an enclosure and a support system. The enclosure can include a barrier separating a sterile environment inside of the enclosure from a non-sterile e...