US Patent Issued to Nexus Medical on March 18 for "Clinical assessment of an intravenous catheter site" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,533, issued on March 18, was assigned to Nexus Medical LLC (Lenexa, Kan.).

"Clinical assessment of an intravenous catheter site" was invented by W. Cary Dikeman (Lenexa, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for assessing an intravenous catheter site is described in embodiments herein. An application accessible on a mobile device may be used to take calibrated photographs of an intravenous catheter site. The resulting calibrated image may be compared to previously taken calibrated images to determine a complication. Success of treatments to the complication may be tracked and the patient's electronic medical record...