ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,565, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RICHARD WOLF GMBH (Knittlingen, Germany).
"Light applicator system with pre-piercing aid" was invented by Bernd Claus Weber (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Stephan Sieber (Knittlingen-Freudenstein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light applicator system (19), for organic body (9) examination and/or treatment, includes a light applicator (1) with a distal-side insertion portion (13) with an actively light-emitting element and a needle tip (25) for piercing tissue (11) arranged axially centrally at the distal end. A positioning element (5) is fixable relative to the organic body and has a recep...