ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,558, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Needle and uses thereof" was invented by Manu Vatish (Oxford, Great Britain), Radu Cimpeanu (Oxford, Great Britain), Ektoras Georgiou (Oxford, Great Britain) and Alfonso Arturo Castrejon-Pita (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needle for extraction of biological material from a fluid filled intracorporeal sac, the needle comprising: a shaft comprising a first flow channel comprising an inlet for aspirating biological material from the intracorporeal sac and a second flow channel comprising an outlet for supplying a...