US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Jan. 13 for "Straight-insertion, forward-less fire, low noise, pneumatic soft tissue biopsy needle" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,102, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Straight-insertion, forward-less fire, low noise, pneumatic soft tissue biopsy needle" was invented by Dan Stoianovici (Reisterstown, Md.), Changhan Jun (College Park, Md.), Doru Petrisor (Lutherville, Md.) and Misop Han (West Friendship, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a new biopsy needle that may address several problems identified with currently available biopsy needles. In short, the new needle has a straighter insertion path, no forward fire, lower noise, and is pneumatic power-ass...