ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,090, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Medical device" was invented by Yuichi Tada (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yoichiro Kuwano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device for removing an object in a body cavity, includes a rotatable drive shaft, a cutter attached to a distal end of the drive shaft and by which the object is cut, a guide wire including one or more markers, a guide tube disposed at a distal portion of the drive shaft and including a lumen through which the guide wire can pass and a sensor configured to detect the one or more markers, and a controller configured to control an operation st...