US Patent Issued to Xaga Surgical on June 16 for "Biopsy arrangements" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,513, issued on June 16, was assigned to Xaga Surgical AB (Helsingborg, Sweden).

"Biopsy arrangements" was invented by Andreas Forsvall (Helsingborg, Sweden), Krister Uvnas (Sodra Sandby, Sweden), Mats Edberg (Eslov, Sweden) and Erik Sparre (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biopsy needle arrangement comprises a needle sheath and a needle. The biopsy needle arrangement is configured to be operatively connected to an actuator device configured to push the needle and the sheath distally in a sliding direction x. The biopsy needle arrangement further comprises a needle connector configured to attach the needle to the actuato...