US 12,376,838 B2
Biopsy device with remote multi-chamber tissue sample holder
Bryan R. Keller, Loveland, OH (US); John Kevin Bruce, Burlington, KY (US); Peter Shadix, Cincinnati, OH (US); Rachel Yoon Choung, Cincinnati, OH (US); David Shuart, Mason, OH (US); Jordan Rebellino, Cincinnati, OH (US); Andrew Paul Nock, Dayton, OH (US); and Bryan Superville, Loveland, OH (US)
Assigned to Devicor Medical Products, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by Devicor Medical Products Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Oct. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/965,984.
Application 17/965,984 is a continuation of application No. 15/977,471, filed on May 11, 2018, granted, now 11,504,101.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/505,417, filed on May 12, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0034865 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 10/02 (2006.01); A61B 10/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 10/0275 (2013.01) [A61B 10/0283 (2013.01); A61B 10/0096 (2013.01); A61B 2010/0208 (2013.01); A61B 2010/0225 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A biopsy system, the biopsy system comprising:
(a) a biopsy device, the biopsy device including:
(i) a probe,
(ii) a needle extending from the probe, and
(iii) a cutter, the cutter being movable relative to the needle to sever one or more tissue samples, the cutter defining a cutter lumen extending from a distal end of the cutter to a proximal end of the cutter;
(b) a tissue handler configured to receive the one or more tissue samples severed by the cutter;
(c) a processor adapted to control the cutting and receipt of tissue in the tissue handler; and
(d) a tissue transport tube in communication with the cutter and the tissue handler, the transport tube being configured to communicate the one or more tissue samples severed by the cutter to the tissue handler, the transport tube including one or more electrical leads extending axially though a wall of the transport tube, the one or more electrical leads being responsive to movement of the transport tube to detect bending of the transport tube.