ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,782, issued on May 13, was assigned to INNOVACELL GMBH (Innsbruck, Austria).
"Parallel path puncture device guide and method" was invented by Craig Joseph Cermak (Iowa City, Iowa), Rainer Marksteiner (Schwaz, Austria) and Marco Thurner (Innsbruck, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guidance device is provided for facilitating the placement of a puncture device (a needle) at a defined position relative to an ultrasound probe. The guidance device provides additional support of a needle tip near the needle injection site to maintain a selected path throughout an injection. The additional support is automatically retracted for simp...