US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG on May 12 for "Fluid-driven robotic needle positioner for image-guided percutaneous interventions" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,761, issued on May 12, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Fluid-driven robotic needle positioner for image-guided percutaneous interventions" was invented by Ka Wai Kwok (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Zhuoliang He (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Ziyang Dong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Justin Di-Lang Ho (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Ge Fang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for biopsy, drainage, drug administration, electrode implantation and/or tumor ablation employing percutaneous procedures for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, performed by inserting a needle or prob...