US 12,446,988 B2
Swappable high mating cycle fiber connection interface
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 Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/945,875.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/244,992, filed on Sep. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0082991 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 90/00 (2016.02) [A61B 2562/223 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical system, comprising:
a capital equipment;
a medical device including an optical fiber core having one or more core fibers;
a connection component coupleable between the medical device and the capital equipment, the connection component configured for operation within a sterile field;
a medical device interface disposed on a first side of a component body of the connection component, the medical device interface configured to operatively couple the connection component with the medical device; and
an equipment interface disposed on a second side of the component body, the equipment interface configured to operatively couple the connection component with the capital equipment, wherein:
the connection component includes one or more optical fibers extending across the component body between the equipment interface and the medical device interface to define a fiber-optic connection between the medical device interface and the equipment interface, and
the equipment interface is configured to operatively couple the one or more optical fibers with the capital equipment through a physical barrier wall of a housing of the capital equipment.