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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2020
Applicant:
Cook Medical Technologies Llc, Bloomington, IN (US);
Inventor:
John Crowder Sigmon, Jr., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Assignee:
Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Bloomington, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 10/04 (2006.01); A61B 10/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 10/04 (2013.01); A61B 10/0266 (2013.01); A61B 2010/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
A tissue-collection stylet is configured with inward-facing barbs, for use in a needle, and particularly configured to capture intact tissue cores suitable for histological analysis. The stylet may be provided together with a needle as part of a biopsy system in which the stylet remains at least partially or fully within a lumen of the needle during collection of tissue samples and/or other samples.