Patent ID: 11931112
Assignee: BARD ACCESS SYSTEMS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 30:
31. A medical device system for detecting positioning of a medical device at a target site within a vasculature of a patient, the system comprising:
the medical device comprising an optical fiber having one or more core fibers, each of the one or more core fibers including a plurality of sensors distributed along a longitudinal length of a corresponding core fiber and each sensor of the plurality of sensors being configured to (i) reflect a light signal of a different spectral width based on received incident light, and (ii) change a characteristic of the reflected light signal for use in determining a physical state of the optical fiber; and
a console including one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon logic, when executed by the one or more processors, causes operations including:
providing a broadband incident light signal to the optical fiber;
receiving reflected light signals of different spectral widths of the broadband incident light signal from at least the one or more of the plurality of sensors;
processing the reflected light signals associated with the plurality of core fibers; and
determining whether the medical device is positioned at the target site of the patient based on the reflected light signals.