ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,206, issued on July 15, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Oxygen measuring device" was invented by Satoru Suehara (Kanagawa, Japan), Seyedriyah Hazama (Bear, Del.), Satoshi Sawada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akihiro Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oxygen measurement device includes a catheter including a flexible hollow shaft, the flexible shaft having an open port configured to allow urine from a bladder to flow into the open port, and a urinary passage in communication with the open port configured to discharge the urine; and an oxygen sensor including an oxygen sensor main body capable of detecting oxyge...