US Patent Issued to Veran Medical Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Image guided biopsy needle" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,915, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Veran Medical Technologies LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Image guided biopsy needle" was invented by David M. Leak (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Kester Julian Batchelor (Mound, Minn.) and Eric Stender (Champlin, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device having a handle and an elongate member extending from the handle is provided. The elongate member defines an elongate member lumen where a biopsy needle extends through the elongate member lumen. The medical device has an imaging device extending through a biopsy needle lumen of the biopsy needle. The imaging device extends between a proximal en...