ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,694, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Reference plane for medical device placement" was invented by Steffan Sowards (Salt Lake City), Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah) and William Robert McLaughlin (Bountiful, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method directed to detecting placement of a medical device within a patient body, the system including a medical device including an optical fiber having core fibers. Each of the one or more core fibers can include a plurality of sensors each configured to reflect a light signal having an altered characteristic due to strain expe...