US 12,075,989 B2
Ultrasound transperineal puncture device guide with a pivotable needle holder
Willet Whitmore, Longboat Key, FL (US); Tim Meder, Riverside, IA (US); Paul Smith, North Liberty, IA (US); Sam Moody, Cedar Rapids, IA (US); Hannah Pankow, Iowa City, IA (US); Mackenzie Myhre, New York, NY (US); and Caroline Myrand, St-Bruno-de-Montarville (CA)
Assigned to CIVCO Medical Instruments Co., Inc., Kalona, IA (US)
Filed by CIVCO Medical Instruments Co., Inc., Kalona, IA (US)
Filed on Nov. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/532,421.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/233,173, filed on Aug. 13, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/116,980, filed on Nov. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0160339 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 10/02 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 10/0233 (2013.01) [A61B 17/3403 (2013.01); A61B 2017/3407 (2013.01); A61B 2017/3413 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A puncture device guide, comprising:
a guide platform configured to releasably attach to an ultrasound probe;
a guide tower slidingly coupled to the guide platform, wherein the guide tower is enabled to slide relative to the guide platform; and
a needle holder device removably coupled to the guide tower,
wherein the guide tower projects upwardly from the guide platform,
wherein the guide tower includes a single vertical guidance slot and a plurality of vertical attachment positions at a plurality of spaced vertical locations within the vertical guidance slot, each vertical attachment position of the plurality of vertical attachment positions for engaging the needle holder device at a corresponding vertical position within the vertical guidance slot,
wherein the needle holder device further comprises:
a body portion having a central aperture extending therethrough; and
a pair of engagement shoulders extending outwardly from the body portion, wherein each vertical attachment position in the guide tower comprises a pair of arcuately shaped needle holder device receiving cups positioned on opposite sides of the vertical guidance slot to define a vertical distance from the ultrasound probe, and wherein an arcuate shape of each the pair of arcuately shaped needle holder device receiving cups is configured to pivotably receive a corresponding engagement shoulder of the pair of engagement shoulders in the needle holder device and the needle holder device is pivotably movable within the pair of needle holder device receiving cups between a plurality of path angles.