US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 16 for "Needle-guide robot with preset depth of insertion" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,800, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Needle-guide robot with preset depth of insertion" was invented by Dan Stoianovici (Reisterstown, Md.) and Doru Petrisor (Lutherville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a robot structure that includes an MM-Safe pneumatic stepper motor and optical encoding technologies. The present invention includes a needle guide and a needle depth limiter. The needle for biopsy is inserted through the needle guide and the depth of inserting is limited by the needle depth limiter. The robot is configu...