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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2024
Uro-1, Inc., Greensboro, NC (US);
Kevin Rackers, Greensboro, NC (US);
Philip M. Allred, III, Kernersville, NC (US);
Jack Snoke, Winston Salem, NC (US);
Ted Belleza, La Selva Beach, CA (US);
Bela Denes, Jacksonville, OR (US);
URO-1, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A biopsy needle set includes a biopsy needle with a tip that terminates distally in a laterally extending cutting edge that is spaced up from the bottom surface of the needle. A cradle, proximal to the needle, has a floor that is below a central axis of the needle and a row of teeth upwardly extending up from each lateral side of the floor up to about the central axis. Within each row, the teeth are distant from each other and the teeth of the two rows are staggered such that some cross-sections of the cradle include only one tooth and some none. The outer surface of the cradle bears against the inner surface of the cannula to keep the biopsy needle centered in the cannula and from bending to thereby better target tissue of interest for sampling.