US Patent Issued to B-K MEDICAL on June 3 for "Needle guide for ultrasound-guided freehand biopsy and/or ablation needle insertion" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,114, issued on June 3, was assigned to B-K MEDICAL APS (Herlev, Denmark).

"Needle guide for ultrasound-guided freehand biopsy and/or ablation needle insertion" was invented by Rasmusen Holdensgaard Rossen (Vanlose, Denmark) and Torben Svanberg Nielsen (Copenhagen, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument guide (334) is attachable to an ultrasound imaging probe (304) to guide a needle. The instrument guide comprises a length (404), a width (406) and a height (408), a coupler (336) configured to couple the instrument guide to the ultrasound imaging probe, and a single elongate needle guide slot (410) configured to guide plac...