US Patent Issued to TERUMO on Dec. 30 for "Medical device and method for controlling medical device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,049, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical device and method for controlling medical device" was invented by Yuki Masubuchi (Cupertino, Calif.), Takashi Kitaoka (San Jose, Calif.), Julia Werning (Redwood City, Calif.) and Edward Solomon (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device for removing an object from a biological lumen, includes a rotatable structure for removing the object, a rotatable shaft to which the rotatable structure is connected at a distal portion of the shaft, a motor connected to the shaft and configured to generate a rotational force that is applied to the shaft, ...