US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Dec. 16 for "Devices, systems, and methods for cryogenic biopsy sampling" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,115, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Devices, systems, and methods for cryogenic biopsy sampling" was invented by Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Mass.), David Otuya (Revere, Mass.), Yogesh Verma (Medford, Mass.), Jing Dong (Boston) and Hamid Farrokhi (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, devices, systems, and methods for cryogenic biopsy sampling are provided. In some embodiments, a device for cryogenic biopsy sampling is provided, the device including: a dual lumen tube; an elongated probe tip coupled to the distal end of the dual lumen tube, with a first lumen ...