ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,198, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Medical device" was invented by Yuichi Tada (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yoichiro Kuwano (Machida Tokyo, Japan).
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 first device including a rotatable drive shaft and a cutter attached to a distal end of the drive shaft and by which the object is cut, a second device movable with respect to the drive shaft along a longitudinal direction of the drive shaft and including a distal-side blood pressure sensor at a distal portion of the second device and a proximal-side blood pressure sen...