ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,910, issued on April 1, was assigned to XACT ROBOTICS LTD. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Insertion guide" was invented by Ben Galili (Haifa, Israel), Ofer Arnold (Ma'ale Tzviya, Israel), Simon Sharon (Hof Carmel, Israel) and Daniel Glozman (Kfar Adumim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for insertion of a flexible needle or other such instrument into a tissue, incorporating a collapsible support guide which supports that part of the needle which has not yet penetrated the tissue, preventing it from buckling, and an arrangement which pulls the needle from its proximal end to provide sufficient force for the penetration process. Th...