US Patent Issued to Bard Peripheral Vascular on Feb. 17 for "Biopsy apparatus having a piercing module" (Danish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,202, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Biopsy apparatus having a piercing module" was invented by Angela K. Jensen (Phoenix), Soren F. Orts (Virum, Denmark) and Soren Christensen (Allerod, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biopsy apparatus includes a piercing module having a probe drive slider coupled to a probe carrier body of a biopsy probe assembly, and has a primed position and a fired position. A nut housing has a home position and an extended position. A drive spindle is drivably coupled to a motor driveshaft, and is coupled to the nut housing. A firing spring is in...