ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,343, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Catheter assembly" was invented by Masahiro Ishida (Hadano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter assembly includes: a hollow catheter; a catheter hub to which the catheter is fixed; an inner needle including a needle tip, the inner needle being detachably disposed inside of the catheter; a needle hub to which the inner needle is fixed; a catheter operation member configured to move the catheter relative to the inner needle; and a support member attached to a distal side of the needle hub and configured to rotate about a rotation axis orthogonal to a longitudinal d...