US Patent Issued to TERUMO on April 29 for "Procedure simulator and procedure training method using the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,475, issued on April 29, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Procedure simulator and procedure training method using the same" was invented by Kouji Ozaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Daiki Nozawa (Choufu, Japan), Junichi Fukamizu (Yokohama, Japan) and Makoto Takahashi (Hadano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A procedure simulator is provided, which includes a first storage tank configured to store a liquid imitating blood; a tissue model including a plurality of bifurcated flow paths being bifurcated downstream via a plurality of bifurcated portions; a pump configured to supply the liquid to the tissue model; a second storage tank confi...