US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Oct. 28 for "Ultrasound probe with integrated data collection methodologies" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,534, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Ultrasound probe with integrated data collection methodologies" 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: "An ultrasound-imaging system includes an ultrasound probe and a console. The ultrasound probe includes (i) an array of ultrasonic transducers, activated ultrasonic transducers of the array of ultrasonic transducers configured to emit generated ultrasound signals into a patient, receive reflected ultrasound signals from the pat...