ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,101, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Aalto University Foundation sr (Aalto, Finland).
"Medical device" was invented by Gosta Ehnholm (Aalto, Finland), Jouni Rantanen (Aalto, Finland) and Yohann Le Bourlout (Aalto, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a biopsy needle device comprising a biopsy needle attachment mechanism arranged to mechanically couple a biopsy needle to the biopsy needle device, an actuator mechanism comprising a transducer configured to interconnect electrical signals at one port to mechanical motion at another port, the actuator mechani...