ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,568, issued on June 3, was assigned to CODAN US Corp. (Santa Ana, Calif.).
"Medical coiled tubing" was invented by Thomas F. Knight (Santa Ana, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are sterilized medical coiled tubing and process for producing the same. One process comprises: helically winding a length of medical tubing along a mandrel such that adjacent turns of the medical tubing are in contact with each other at tubing contact points; applying a UV adhesive to the tubing contact points to produce a medical coiled tubing; curing the tubing by applying UV light to the tubing contact points; and removing the medical ...