ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,185, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to READITEC MEDICAL SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Zhuhai, China).

"Guiding and positioning device for assisting in computed tomography-guided needle biopsy (CT-GNB)" was invented by Feihuan Qu (Chengdu, China), Feng Shou (Xi'an, China), Fujun Zhang (Guangzhou, China), Chuang He (Guangan, China), Shifu Ye (Jianyang, China), Lei Ma (Chengdu, China), Taojin Huang (Chengdu, China), Qingchun Zhou (Chengdu, China), Zhisheng Wu (Chongqing, China), Guangyue Shi (Chengdu, China) and Xi Jia (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guiding and positioning device for assisting in computed tomography-guided needle...