ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,991, issued on May 26, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
"Epidural needle" was invented by Murad Althobaiti (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Nasir Ghazi Hariri (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Sajid Ali (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Kamran Hameed (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Naif Adnan Al-Rubai (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An epidural needle with a mechanism to receive real-time feedback on the location of the epidural needle during insertion process of the epidural needle. In particular, the epidural needle includes a spring and a pair of needles coupled to a force-measuring sensor for a con...