ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,106, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (Singapore) and IRNOVATE PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Core needle biopsy device" was invented by Kamarjit Singh Mangat (Birmingham, Great Britain), Gabriel Hong Chun Tan (Singapore), Ronald Craig Wight (Singapore) and Chun Siong Lee (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a biopsy device for performing soft tissue biopsy on any major organ through the venous system, and a method for using the biopsy device. The biopsy device of the present disclosure is a system that is sufficiently flexible such that the system can be gu...