ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,063, issued on May 12, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Balloon for balloon catheter" was invented by Masahiro Kojima (Settsu, Japan), Masato Tsueda (Settsu, Japan), Yoshinori Nakano (Settsu, Japan) and Takahisa Hamabuchi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a balloon for a balloon catheter that can prevent kinking or buckling of the balloon and elongation of the balloon in the longitudinal direction. A balloon (2) for a balloon catheter has a balloon body (20); the balloon body (20) has an inflating part (20e), a distal sleeve part (25), and a proximal sleeve part (21); the distal sleeve part (25) ha...