US Patent Issued to TERUMO on Nov. 25 for "Inserter, medical elongated body set that includes inserter, and method of using inserter" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,766, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inserter, medical elongated body set that includes inserter, and method of using inserter" was invented by Kazunari Fukami (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inserter, a medical elongated body set, and a method of using the inserter to effectively remove air remaining inside a distal portion of a medical elongated body of the medical elongated body set by effectively performing priming on the distal portion of the medical elongated body. The inserter assists the medical elongated body to be inserted into a medical device. The inserter includes a tubular por...