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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2021
Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Shayne Messerly, Kaysville, UT (US);
Anthony K. Misener, Bountiful, UT (US);
Steffan Sowards, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
William Robert McLaughlin, Bountiful, UT (US);
Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
Blood vessel recognition and needle guidance systems, components, and methods thereof are disclosed. A console can be configured to instantiate a target recognition process for recognizing an anatomical target, such as a blood vessel, of a patient and a needle guidance process for guiding insertion of a needle into the anatomical target using ultrasound-imaging data received by the console. The system can perform target identification based on artificial intelligence (AI), which can be trained to recognize targets based on the ultrasound image. The ultrasound probe can be configured to provide to the console electrical signals corresponding to the ultrasound-imaging data. The ultrasound probe can include an array of transducers and, optionally, an array of magnetic sensors respectively configured to convert reflected ultrasound signals from the patient and magnetic signals from the needle, when magnetized, into the electrical signals.