US Patent Issued to JAPAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SECURITY, YASUI on Nov. 18 for "Surgical ink, production method for said ink, and surgical pen using said ink" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,766, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to JAPAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SECURITY (Tokyo) and YASUI Co. LTD. (Miyazaki, Japan).

"Surgical ink, production method for said ink, and surgical pen using said ink" was invented by Yutaka Maruoka (Tokyo), Toshihisa Toyokuni (Hyogo, Japan), Mori Yokoyama (Hyogo, Japan), Kei Oomoto (Tokyo) and Go Aradono (Miyazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical ink is suitable for medical devices that ensure safety in accordance with the sterilization validation and can be widely distributed on the market, and has biocompatibility and writing property, and a surgical pen has good writing convenienc...