ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,627, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands).
"Fiber optic needle probe" was invented by Gerwin Jan Puppels (Schiedam, Netherlands), Tom Christian Bakker Schut (Zoetermeer, Netherlands), Senada Koljenovic (Schiedam, Netherlands), Martin Van Der Wolf (Nieuw-Beijerland, Netherlands), Alexey Bocharnikov (Berlin), Iskander Usenov (Geislingen an der Steige, Germany), Viacheslav Artyushenko (Zeuthen, Germany), Elisa Maria Barroso (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Yassine Aaboubout (The Hague, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber optic needle probe is described that incl...