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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2014
Applicant:
Snpshot Trustee Limited, Auckland, NZ;
Inventors:
Michael Stuart Gardner, Auckland, NZ;
Roy Victor Bladen, Auckland, NZ;
Assignee:
SNPSHOT TRUSTEE LIMITED, Auckland, NZ;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 10/02 (2006.01); A01K 11/00 (2006.01); A61B 10/00 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 10/0266 (2013.01); A01K 11/00 (2013.01); A01K 11/003 (2013.01); A01K 11/006 (2013.01); A61B 10/0096 (2013.01); A61B 10/0283 (2013.01); A61B 2010/0208 (2013.01); A61B 2010/0225 (2013.01); A61B 2090/081 (2016.02); A61B 2503/40 (2013.01); A61B 2562/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sample collector to take and hold a biopsy sample from an organism upon being driven by an actuator into the organism, the collector comprising a punch that includes a cutter with a cutting edge formed at a cutting end of the punch to remove and retain a biopsy sample, and a unique identifier on or in the collector, the identifier being machine or human readable at the time of use of the collector to take the sample.