US Patent Issued to TERUMO on July 8 for "Catheter assembly and catheter indwelling body" (Japanese, Slovene, Slovenian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,452, issued on July 8, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Catheter assembly and catheter indwelling body" was invented by Shota Yamamoto (Mitaka, Japan) and Shinnosuke Yamashita (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter assembly includes: an inner needle having a blade surface at a distal end; a catheter through which the inner needle is inserted; a catheter hub through which the inner needle is inserted and that is fixed to a proximal end of the catheter; a valve that comprises a pair of inclined portions that are inclined so as to become closer to each other in a distal direction, an end surface located at di...