US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on July 15 for "Real-time sampling system" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,283, issued on July 15, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Real-time sampling system" was invented by David A. Herrin (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for controlling advancement of a needle deployed through a control system. In an illustrative embodiment, a needle actuator is configured to be fixably coupled to a proximal end of a needle. A first release device is movably coupled to the needle actuator and is engageable to release the needle actuator to move from a retracted position to a ready position where the distal end of the needle is a...