ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,338, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Catheter engaged with a pusher" was invented by Yuichi Tada (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yoichiro Kuwano (Tokyo), John Barritt (San Jose, Calif.) and Mike Foster (East Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter for removing an object in a body lumen includes an outer tube, a shaft surrounded by the tube, a cutting member connected to the shaft to be rotated with respect to a rotation axis, a guide wire tube attached to the outer tube and having a first lumen for a guide wire and second lumens, a metal member attached to the wire tube, a part of the metal member su...