ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,088, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Support table and vascular puncture device" was invented by Takito Inukai (Isehara, Japan), Takumi Fukuda (Hadano, Japan), Masashi Usami (Tokyo) and Yoichiro Kuwano (Machida, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vascular puncture device including a support table that is capable of supporting a main body including an imaging unit that is capable of coming into contact with a skin surface of an arm of a human body and acquiring a cross-sectional image of the arm, a drive unit that moves a puncture needle, and a control unit that is capable of controlling a move...