US Patent Issued to JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, TEIJIN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 5 for "Medical instrument suitable for ligature or similar" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,864, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Tochigi, Japan) and TEIJIN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Medical instrument suitable for ligature or similar" was invented by Yuji Kaneda (Tochigi, Japan), Yasuhiro Kawabe (Osaka, Japan), Katsuhiro Mikami (Osaka, Japan) and Masumi Hirata (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument, comprising a flexible band body having a distal end and a proximal end; a flexible first rod-shaped body having a distal end and a proximal end; and a flexible second rod-shaped body having a distal end and a proximal end, wherein the distal end of the ba...