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The approvals relate to patent applications EP19780264.8 and EP18199230.6 from patent family 1 and follow previous Intention to Grants from the EPO announced in Q1 2023. The patents protect the EndoDrill® product series, the world's first market-cleared electric-driven biopsy instrument for endoscopy. BiBB also has three international patent applications for EndoDrill®, which has entered the national/regional phase.
EndoDrill® is in clinical phase and approaching commercialization. The product family is aimed at hospitals working with advanced ultrasound endoscopy (EUS/EBUS), to improve diagnostics in some of the most serious cancers, such as stomach, pancreas, liver, lung, and bladder cancer.
"Patent approvals in Europe come well timed ahead of our first launch activity with EndoDrill® GI in Oslo at the 6th Nordic EUS Meeting at the end of November. It will be the premiere of our new biopsy system at a congress and the fact that we have now received two patent approvals in Europe is a good foundation to stand on", says Fredrik Lindblad , CEO of BiBB.
About EndoDrill®
FDA-cleared EndoDrill® gives endoscopists increased opportunities to take high-quality coherent core biopsies in suspected tumors. An intact tissue sample contains more information, which can be crucial for accurate and complete diagnosis as well as the earliest possible start of treatment. The completed clinical pilot study with EndoDrill® GI (EDMX01) showed one hundred percent diagnostic accuracy when analyzing the samples.
EndoDrill® utilizes a patented electric-driven rotating needle cylinder that provides high-precision tissue samples of higher diagnostic quality than existing manually handled EUS biopsy instruments.
This is a translation of the Swedish press release. If there should be any discrepancies, the Swedish language version prevails.
For more information about BiBB, please contact:
E-mail: fredrik.lindblad@bibbinstruments.com
Phone: +46 70 899 94 86
www.bibbinstruments.com
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