US Patent Issued to Xaga Surgical on Sept. 29 for "Biopsy arrangement" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,991, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Xaga Surgical AB (Helsingborg, Sweden).

"Biopsy arrangement" was invented by Andreas Forsvall (Helsingborg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biopsy needle arrangement comprises a needle sheath and a needle configured to lock a tip portion of the needle in relation to the sheath when the needle arrangement has obtained a closed state. The locking, which is obtained by configurations of sheath opening edges and proximal tip edges, between the tip portion of the needle and the sheath is in a third direction as well as in a rotational sense in that the tip cannot rotate around a longitudin...