US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on May 12 for "Punch biopsy tool with transverse cutter and angular adjustment" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,684, issued on May 12, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Punch biopsy tool with transverse cutter and angular adjustment" was invented by Abdullah Mohamed Alsoghier (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Nasser Raqe Alqhtani (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Ali Saleh Al Rafedah (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A punch biopsy tool includes an upper housing, lower housing, and a circular cutter attached to the lower housing configured to make a circular incision around a target tissue. A transverse cutter performs removal of the target tissue sample. An axially movable upper shaft member within the upper housi...