US Patent Issued to ASAHI INTECC on July 28 for "Vascular lesion model" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,801, issued on July 28, was assigned to ASAHI INTECC Co. LTD. (Seto, Japan).

"Vascular lesion model" was invented by Nobuyoshi Yamanaka (Seto, Japan), Rina Yoneyama (Seto, Japan), Kazu Takemura (Seto, Japan), Ryunosuke Tanemoto (Seto, Japan) and Asuka Sekishita (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vascular lesion model including a blood vessel portion and a lesion portion divided into a plurality of lesion regions having different hardness. The lesion portion including at least one type of lesion region among a first lesion region contacting a part of an inner periphery of the blood vessel portion in a cross section perpendi...