US Patent Issued to Akeo Hagiwara on July 14 for "Blood vessel cover" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,274, issued on July 14, was assigned to Akeo Hagiwara (Otsu, Japan).

"Blood vessel cover" was invented by Akeo Hagiwara (Otsu, Japan) and Yosaku Hagiwara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a blood vessel cover that can reduce or prevent intimal thickening by remodeling the vein into a buffer system vessel.A cylindrical blood vessel cover (10) is continuous around the entire circumference and to be placed on an outer circumference of a vein (4) that is anastomosed to an artery (3) or to an artificial blood vessel, the blood vessel cover (10) has a portion (A), and the portion (A) has a 20% elastic index of 1.2 N...