ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,290, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Medical device and procedure method" was invented by Masaomi Imai (Kofu, Japan), Takahiro Chida (Kawasaki, Japan), Yuki Masubuchi (Hadano, Japan), Takashi Kitaoka (Hadano, Japan) and Kazuaki Kanamoto (Hadano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device insertable into a blood vessel for effectively removing an object flowing in a biological lumen while reducing the burden on the living body includes an elongated shaft portion, and an expansion portion which is an elastically deformable cylindrical body having a plurality of gaps and in which a proximal portion or...