US Patent Issued to KANEKA on March 17 for "Puncturing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,882, issued on March 17, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Puncturing device" was invented by Yuki Mukai (Okaya, Japan) and Miho Kobayashi (Okaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A puncturing device comprising: a resin tube having a distal end and a proximal end, and extending in a longitudinal direction; a metal tube disposed in a lumen of the resin tube; a metal member disposed at a distal end portion of the metal tube; and a metal tip disposed at a distal end portion of the metal member, wherein a flow path is present between an inner surface of the resin tube and an outer surface of the metal member and is in co...