ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,852, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Verid Health Inc. (New York).

"Vascular access devices, systems, and methods for monitoring patient health" was invented by James D. Mitchell (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Theodore C. Johnson (Lake Forest Park, Wash.) and Andrew Thoreson (Orono, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to vascular access devices, systems, and methods configured to monitor a patient's health. In some embodiments, the vascular access device may include a sensing element, and the system of the present technology may be configured to obtain physiological measurements of the patient via the sens...