US 11,766,524 B2
Device and method for high-control-steerable tip needles having rudder/keel and tip steering/angle changing means
Charles S. Brunner, Stockton, NJ (US)
Assigned to Jasperate, Inc., Lisle, IL (US)
Filed by Jasperate, Inc., Lisle, IL (US)
Filed on Apr. 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/840,569.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/830,986, filed on Apr. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0316310 A1, Oct. 8, 2020
Int. Cl. A61M 5/32 (2006.01); A61M 5/158 (2006.01); A61M 25/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/329 (2013.01) [A61M 5/158 (2013.01); A61M 5/32 (2013.01); A61M 5/3287 (2013.01); A61M 25/0105 (2013.01); A61M 25/0133 (2013.01); A61M 2005/3289 (2013.01)] 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A needle system comprising a pre-bent needle having a bend and a pre-bent stylet having a bend, configured such that when the stylet is placed inside the needle, forming a combined longitudinal axis, the bend of the stylet and the bend of the needle are in opposition and the needle and stylet form a combined needle and stylet being generally unbent along the combined longitudinal axis; and wherein, when the pre-bent stylet and the pre-bent needle are rotated relative to one another, by turning one or the other of the needle or stylet relative to the other, along their combined longitudinal axis, the needle system is caused to bend.