US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on Aug. 11 for "Needle with contiguous interrupted and uninterrupted helical-cut sections" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,388, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Needle with contiguous interrupted and uninterrupted helical-cut sections" was invented by Christopher Ralph (Woodinville, Wash.) and Jason T. Panzenbeck (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for sampling a targeted region of tissue in a body using a flexible needle including a plurality of interrupted cuts and an uninterrupted cut extending continuously from the uninterrupted cuts to reduce localized strain on the flexible needle. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes ...