US Patent Issued to GOODMAN on Sept. 15 for "Balloon for catheter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,342, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GOODMAN Co. LTD. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Balloon for catheter" was invented by Mitsumasa Okamoto (Seto, Japan), Takuma Miyamura (Seto, Japan), Shizuya Yoshinaga (Seto, Japan), Shoma Kondo (Seto, Japan), Shuhei Yamamoto (Seto, Japan) and Yuta Nakamura (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A balloon for a catheter includes an inflatable portion, a distal end connecting portion, and a proximal end connecting portion. The balloon for the catheter also includes an inner side thick film portion and a thin film portion having differing thicknesses from each other. The thickness of the inner side thi...