US Patent Issued on July 22 for "Needle assembly with reverberation features to facilitate ultrasound guidance" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,504, issued on July 22.

"Needle assembly with reverberation features to facilitate ultrasound guidance" was invented by Andrew J. Butki (Clarkston, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needle assembly positionable under visual guidance from an ultrasound system. An elongate body extends distally from a hub along a longitudinal axis and defines a lumen. Reverberation features reverberate incident waves to produce reflected waves to be received by the ultrasound system. The reverberation features may be disposed within the lumen and axially spaced apart from one another along the longitudinal axis. The reverberation features may incl...