ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,202, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SOMATEX Medical Technologies GmbH (Berlin).
"Marking element for marking tissue" was invented by Dirk Hornscheidt (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Marking device (100) for implantation into a tissue (260), having a support structure (102) which is formed by at least one elastic metal wire, is compressible and is self-expanding and which, in an expanded state, encompasses an interior space (104), characterized in that the marking device (100) is designed to transform itself on its own from a compressed state into an expanded state, even against a tissue pressure prevailing at a tissue site...