US Patent Issued to Olympus on Feb. 17 for "Endoscopic ultrasound guided tissue acquisition" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,285, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Olympus Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscopic ultrasound guided tissue acquisition" was invented by Hiroyuki Mino (Westborough, Mass.), Ryohei Ogawa (Tokyo) and Anthony J. Spagnoli (Duxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for planning endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided tissue acquisition (EUS-TA) from an anatomical target are disclosed. An endoscopy system comprises a steerable elongate instrument including an EUS probe to produce ultrasound scans of the anatomical target, and a tissue acquisition device to sample tissue. A processor receives image of the anatomical tar...