ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,458, issued on March 24, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Puncturing device" was invented by Takuya Kaneko (Okaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A puncturing device (1) comprising: a resin tube (10) having a distal end and a proximal end and extending in a longitudinal direction; a metal tube (20) disposed in a lumen of the resin tube (10); a metal core member (30) joined to a distal end portion of the metal tube (20); and a metal tip (40) joined to a distal end portion of the metal core member (30), wherein the puncturing device (1) has a flow path for a liquid, between an inner surface of the resin tube (10) an...