US Patent Issued to KANEKA on Sept. 1 for "Medical shaft, medical device, and method for manufacturing medical shaft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,966, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Medical shaft, medical device, and method for manufacturing medical shaft" was invented by Takuya Kaneko (Okaya, Japan) and Yuki Mukai (Okaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical shaft includes a shaft including at least one lumen extending in a longitudinal direction; a core member disposed in the lumen, the core member extending along the longitudinal direction; and a tubular member disposed on an outer side of the core member in a same lumen as a lumen in which the core member is disposed, the tubular member having a length, in the longitudinal direct...