ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,941, issued on July 29, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Medical device" was invented by Yuichi Tada (Santa Clara, Calif.) and John Barritt (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device that removes an object from a biological lumen, includes a rotatable drive shaft having a lumen through which the object passes, a cutting unit disposed at a distal end of the drive shaft and by which the object is cut, a proximal shaft to be rotated by a rotary force, a connection unit connecting the proximal shaft and the drive shaft and by which the rotary force is transmitted to the drive shaft, and a housing that houses t...