US Patent Issued to QATAR FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, HAMAD MEDICAL on Oct. 21 for "System for performing MR-guided transrectal prostate biopsy" (Qatari Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,984, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QATAR FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (Doha, Qatar) and HAMAD MEDICAL Corp. (Doha, Qatar).

"System for performing MR-guided transrectal prostate biopsy" was invented by Abdulla Al-Ansari (Doha, Qatar), Adham Darweesh (Doha, Qatar), Khalid Al-Rumaihi (Doha, Qatar), Carlos Velasquez (Doha, Qatar), Julien Abinahed (Doha, Qatar), Nikhil Navkar (Doha, Qatar), Mansour Karkoub (Doha, Qatar) and Nikolaos Tsekos (Doha, Qatar).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transrectal probe manipulator system includes a probe comprising a biopsy needle and a manipulator. The manipulator incl...