US 12,285,572 B2
Optical-fiber stylet holders and methods thereof
Steffan Sowards, Salt Lake City, UT (US); Anthony K. Misener, Bountiful, UT (US); and William Robert McLaughlin, Bountiful, 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 Nov. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/529,022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/115,442, filed on Nov. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0152349 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 25/01 (2006.01); A61B 1/07 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 25/0102 (2013.01) [A61B 1/07 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical-fiber stylet holder, comprising:
an integrated funnel including:
a radiused shoulder having a radius configured to allow an optical-fiber stylet to be placed against the radiused shoulder without breakage of one or more optical fibers in the optical-fiber stylet; and
a neck configured to be coincident with a lumen of an extension leg of a catheter, the neck having an inner diameter sufficient to accept the optical-fiber stylet.