US Patent Issued to TERUMO on June 10 for "Method for manufacturing stent delivery system and stent delivery system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,758, issued on June 10, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method for manufacturing stent delivery system and stent delivery system" was invented by Kaoru Miyazaki (Fujinomiya, Japan) and Taisei Kawakita (Fujinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a stent delivery system and a stent delivery system that can reduce an insertion resistance of an outer tube relative to an inner wall surface of another medical appliance, such as a catheter. The method includes: deforming, by disposing an insertion member in a lumen of the inner-side tube, opposing two locations of the inner-side tube; disposing the resp...