US Patent Issued to JOIMAX on July 8 for "Surgical needle set and method for determining the position of a surgical instrument" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,878, issued on July 8, was assigned to JOIMAX GMBH (Karlsruhe, Germany).

"Surgical needle set and method for determining the position of a surgical instrument" was invented by Wolfgang Ries (Linkenheim, Germany) and Rainer Steegmuller (Gerlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In particular for automatically determining the position of a Jamshidi needle, the invention provides a surgical needle set comprising a hollow needle and an obturator, wherein the obturator has, starting a finite distance from its distal tip, a hollow space extending longitudinally in a proximal direction, wherein at least one proximal lateral outlet of...