ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,939, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to JAPAN LIFELINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Catheter inserter, catheter device" was invented by Daisuke Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Okawa (Tokyo) and Itsuki Nakagami (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter inserter for inserting a balloon catheter into an insertion opening of an endoscope provided with a valve. The balloon catheter includes a balloon attached on a distal end side of a shaft and configured to be expanded by an expansion fluid supplied from a proximal end side of the shaft, and an elastic band wound around an outer periphery of an intermediate portion of the balloon and configured...