diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7153412dece..96f956a0c5e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ This release is compatible with NumPy 2.5.
 * Fixed `dpnp.repeat` raising an unclear `TypeError` for a nested sequence of `repeats` [#3024](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/3024)
 * Fixed `dpnp.ndarray.view` ignoring the USM element offset of a sliced array, which also caused `dpnp.einsum` to silently return wrong results for a single sliced operand with no summed index [#3037](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/3037)
 * Fixed `dpnp.all` and `dpnp.any` aborting when reducing over an empty axis (e.g. an array with a zero-length dimension) [#3021](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/3021)
+* Fixed a per-call `sycl::queue` leak in `usm_ndarray::get_queue()`/`get_device()` [#3042](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpnp/pull/3042)
 
 ### Security
 
diff --git a/dpnp/include/dpnp4pybind11.hpp b/dpnp/include/dpnp4pybind11.hpp
index d80dac8be2b..2cc55648bf4 100644
--- a/dpnp/include/dpnp4pybind11.hpp
+++ b/dpnp/include/dpnp4pybind11.hpp
@@ -489,8 +489,13 @@ class usm_ndarray : public py::object
         PyUSMArrayObject *raw_ar = usm_array_ptr();
 
         auto const &api = detail::dpnp_capi::get();
+        // UsmNDArray_GetQueueRef_ returns an owning copy (DPCTLQueue_Copy,
+        // i.e. `new sycl::queue`); wrap it in a unique_ptr to avoid leaking a
+        // queue per call.
         DPCTLSyclQueueRef QRef = api.UsmNDArray_GetQueueRef_(raw_ar);
-        return *(reinterpret_cast<sycl::queue *>(QRef));
+        std::unique_ptr<sycl::queue> q_ptr{
+            reinterpret_cast<sycl::queue *>(QRef)};
+        return *q_ptr;
     }
 
     sycl::device get_device() const
@@ -498,8 +503,12 @@ class usm_ndarray : public py::object
         PyUSMArrayObject *raw_ar = usm_array_ptr();
 
         auto const &api = detail::dpnp_capi::get();
+        // UsmNDArray_GetQueueRef_ returns an owning copy; wrap it in a
+        // unique_ptr to avoid leaking a queue per call.
         DPCTLSyclQueueRef QRef = api.UsmNDArray_GetQueueRef_(raw_ar);
-        return reinterpret_cast<sycl::queue *>(QRef)->get_device();
+        std::unique_ptr<sycl::queue> q_ptr{
+            reinterpret_cast<sycl::queue *>(QRef)};
+        return q_ptr->get_device();
     }
 
     int get_typenum() const