US Patent Issued to KANEKA on May 12 for "Medical device with tube and basket" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,704, issued on May 12, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Medical device with tube and basket" was invented by Atsushi Ogawa (Tokyo) and Masayuki Takatera (Settsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device comprising: an outer tube, a basket, and a basket pusher, wherein the basket includes a first bundling portion at which the plurality of wires are fixed at a distal portion of the basket, and a second bundling portion at which the plurality of wires are fixed at a proximal portion of the basket, in a state where the basket is accommodated in the outer tube, the first bundling portion has a first end being an e...