US Patent Issued to ASAHI INTECC on Sept. 22 for "Catheter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,120, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ASAHI INTECC Co. LTD. (Seto, Japan).

"Catheter" was invented by Teppei Kuboki (Seto, Japan) and Keiichi Fujino (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter, including: a hollow shaft having a distal end that includes a first section extending substantially linearly and a second section on a distal end side of the first section. The second section includes a first curved region and a second curved region, less rigid than the first curved region, on the more distal end side than the first curved region. A virtual plane on the axis of the hollow shaft forms a boundary, and spaces on bo...