US Patent Issued to JSM, MDI, Kurume University on March 31 for "System for detecting position of distal end of medical tube" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,053, issued on March 31, was assigned to JSM Co. Ltd. (Hiroshima, Japan), MDI Co. Ltd. (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kurume University (Fukuoka, Japan).

"System for detecting position of distal end of medical tube" was invented by Takehiko Yuki (Hiroshima, Japan), Koichiro Toyota (Hiroshima, Japan), Manabu Mochizuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Yasuo Imamura (Shizuoka, Japan), Masahiro Kinoshita (Fukuoka, Japan) and Osuke Iwata (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tube distal end position detection system (1) includes a light source device (50) that emits light, a hollow tube (10) having a flow path (11) that allows a liquid to flow throu...