ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,113, issued on May 13, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Catheter" was invented by Takashi Ito (Shizuoka, Japan), Daisuke Shimada (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kei Ozawa (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter having a tubular body including a lumen communicating from a proximal end to a distal end and in which a braided reinforcement body is embedded, and an operation unit disposed on a proximal side of the tubular body. The reinforcement body includes a plurality of first wire filaments helically wound in a first direction of a circumferential direction, toward a distal end direction of the tubular body, and a plural...