ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,056, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Medical tubular body delivering device" was invented by Shizuo Ichimura (Settsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a medical tubular body delivering device that can prevent kinking and efficiently deploy a medical tubular body, while maintaining the reinforcing effect without reducing operability. The device has an outer tube through which the medical tubular body is disposed; a guidewire insertion member provided proximal to the medical tubular body; and an inner insertion member provided in the outer tube, and the guidewire insertion member has a...