US Patent Issued to TERUMO on Sept. 30 for "Medical device and treatment method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,914, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical device and treatment method" was invented by Tomonori Hatta (San Jose, Calif.), Junichi Kobayashi (Cupertino, Calif.) and Taiga Nakano (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment method and medical device are disclosed for cutting a substance inside a body lumen. The medical device for cutting substances inside a body lumen including a rotatable tubular drive shaft; an expanding part connected to a distal side of the tubular drive shaft; a cutting part covering the expanding part; and an elongated tube extending through the tubular drive shaft a...