ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,878, issued on June 10, was assigned to Nikkiso Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Medical device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Shingo Okamoto (Shizuoka, Japan), Kosei Nishida (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kazuhide Ono (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a case obtained by mating a liquid-phase-portion case and a gas-phase-portion case to each other, a membrane member as an elastic member with which a liquid-phase portion covered by the liquid-phase-portion case and a gas-phase portion covered by the gas-phase-portion case are separated from each other, fixing parts and at which the liquid-phase-...