US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Dec. 9 for "Method and apparatus for tissue harvesting" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,001, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Method and apparatus for tissue harvesting" was invented by Richard R. Anderson (Boston), Walfre Franco (Worcester, Mass.), Joel N. Jimenez-Lozano (Cambridge, Mass.) and William A. Farinelli (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary methods and devices can be provided for harvesting a plurality of small tissue pieces, e.g., having widths less than about 1 mm or 0.5 mm, using one or more hollow needles. A fluid can be flowed through a conduit past the proximal ends of the needles to facilitate removal of the tissue pieces from the needle lumens,...