US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 23 for "Insert, photoacoustic measurement device comprising insert, and method for manufacturing insert" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,522, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Insert, photoacoustic measurement device comprising insert, and method for manufacturing insert" was invented by Kaku Irisawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insert includes: a puncture needle main body which has an opening at a tip and is formed in a hollow shape and of which at least a tip portion is inserted into a subject; an optical fiber that is provided in a hollow portion of the puncture needle main body along a length direction of the puncture needle main body; and a photoacoustic wave generation unit that is provided at a light emission en...