ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,200, issued on March 17, was assigned to NIPRO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Multilumen catheter" was invented by Yusuke Matsuda (Osaka, Japan), Shota Nakai (Osaka, Japan) and Takuma Nakamura (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-lumen catheter includes a body 101 that is formed into a cylindrical shape and extends from a proximal end to a distal end and surrounded by an outer wall 113; an inner space of the body 101 being divided with a partition 114 extending in a longitudinal direction, into a plurality of lumens including a first lumen 111 and a second lumen 112. The second lumen 112 has a second opening plane 122 at its...