US 12,226,254 B2
Medical devices with a quick release drive connector
Anthony K. Misener, Bountiful, UT (US); and Steffan Sowards, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Assigned to Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Filed by Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Filed on Mar. 21, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/612,652.
Application 18/612,652 is a division of application No. 17/520,558, filed on Nov. 5, 2021, granted, now 11,937,972, issued on Mar. 26, 2024.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/110,795, filed on Nov. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0252141 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/02 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 8/0841 (2013.01) [A61B 8/02 (2013.01); A61B 8/0891 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/4254 (2013.01); A61B 90/39 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3925 (2016.02); A61B 2562/0223 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for implanting a medical device, comprising:
inserting an insertion needle into a target site;
inserting a guidewire into the target site, the guidewire having a proximal end with one or more sensor connectors and a distal end with one or more sensors or emitters wired to the one or more sensor connectors, wherein the one or more sensors or emitters include one or more electromagnetic coils and one or more electrocardiogram (ECG) sensors;
grasping a quick-release drive connector including one or more sensor connector attachments with one or more electromagnetic coil attachments and one or more electrocardiogram sensor attachments;
sliding the quick-release drive connector over the proximal end of the guidewire to engage the one or more sensor connectors with the one or more sensor connector attachments, thereby causing current to flow from the quick-release drive connector to the one or more electromagnetic coils, resulting in generation of an electromagnetic field,
confirming the guidewire is at the target site;
sliding the quick-release drive connector off the proximal end of the guidewire to disengage the one or more sensor connectors from the one or more sensor connector attachments, thereby ceasing the current from flowing from the quick-release drive connector to the one or more sensors or emitters; and
introducing the medical device over the guidewire.