US Patent Issued to NIPRO on July 28 for "Method for manufacturing catheter, and catheter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,252, issued on July 28, was assigned to NIPRO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing catheter, and catheter" was invented by Koji Kameoka (Osaka, Japan), Yoshihiro Mori (Osaka, Japan) and Emi Kusakabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This method for manufacturing a catheter involves manufacturing a catheter that includes a braided body having a first element wire and a second element wire intersecting the first element wire, and an outer layer provided on the outer circumference of the braided body, the method comprising: a coating step in which the outer-circumferential side of the braided body is coated with a ...