US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Oct. 6 for "Biopsy device and specimen collection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,702, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Biopsy device and specimen collection method" was invented by Shoichiro Kawayoke (Tokyo) and Shohei Kamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biopsy device includes: a hollow needle; a wire located inside the needle and having a helical drill portion; a rotation mechanism moving the drill portion; a sheath covering the needle, the needle and the wire being movable in a longitudinal direction of the needle with respect to the sheath; and an operating unit on a proximal side of the needle, the wire, and the sheath. The unit includes: a main body fixed to a proximal end ...