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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2012
University of Washington Through Its Center for Commercialization, Seattle, WA (US);
Pierre D. Mourad, Seattle, WA (US);
Samuel R. Browd, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian MacConaghy, Kent, WA (US);
Revathi Murthy, Herndon, VA (US);
Nathaniel Coulson, Liberty Lake, WA (US);
University of Washington Through its Center for Commercialization, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A stylet () includes a handle assembly () with an indicator display () and a stiff wire assembly () extending distally from the handle assembly () having a non-imaging ultrasonic device on a distal end. The stylet includes a circuit assembly having one or more of a pulser (), a transmit/receive chip (), a bandpass filter (), a differential amplifier (), an ADC (), and an MCU (), operable to control the operation of the ultrasonic device and to receive and analyze data from the ultrasonic device to facilitate implantation of a device such as a catheter.