US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, ZEON on Aug. 11 for "Steerable catheter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,798, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (Shiga, Japan) and ZEON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Steerable catheter" was invented by Tohru Tani (Shiga, Japan), Atsushi Yamada (Shiga, Japan), Tatsuya Shima (Tokyo) and Wataru Yonemichi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable catheter includes a flexible tube having a distal end and a proximal end. The tube includes a first tube section (sheath body section) the flexibility of which does not substantially change even upon receiving compression force in the axial direction; and a second tube section (deflection section) joined ...