US 12,287,520 B2
Optical connection systems and methods thereof
Steffan Sowards, Salt Lake City, UT (US); and Anthony K. Misener, 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 Apr. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/141,289.
Application 18/141,289 is a continuation of application No. 17/967,794, filed on Oct. 17, 2022, granted, now 11,638,536, issued on May 2, 2023.
Application 17/967,794 is a continuation of application No. 17/185,777, filed on Feb. 25, 2021, granted, now 11,474,310, issued on Nov. 18, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/983,402, filed on Feb. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0266543 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. H04B 10/00 (2013.01); A61B 5/06 (2006.01); A61M 25/01 (2006.01); G02B 6/42 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/4202 (2013.01) [A61B 5/065 (2013.01); A61M 25/0111 (2013.01); G02B 6/4274 (2013.01); G02B 6/4292 (2013.01); A61B 5/7465 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3592 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of an electrical-and-optical connection system, comprising:
placing a relay module on or alongside a patient, the relay module comprising:
one or more optical-fiber cores within a housing of the relay module;
one or more electrical wires within the housing of the relay module; and
a receptacle disposed in the housing;
placing a sterile barrier over the patient, thereby establishing a sterile field over the sterile barrier and a non-sterile field under the sterile barrier; and
inserting a plug of a medical device in the sterile field into the receptacle of the relay module in the non-sterile field, the inserting piercing the sterile barrier and simultaneously establishing both electrical and optical connections between the medical device and the relay module across the sterile barrier.