US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on April 22 for "Ultrasound-guided rete testis injection/aspiration device" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,075, issued on April 22, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Ultrasound-guided rete testis injection/aspiration device" was invented by Kyle E. Orwig (Wexford, Pa.) and Hanna Valli-Pulaski (Coraopolis, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultrasound-guided rete testis injection/aspiration devices and methods are described. Some methods include inserting a needle into the rete testis space of a patient and injecting a therapeutic medium through the needle into the rete testis space and seminiferous tubules of the testis. The therapeutic medium can help to treat infertilit...