US Patent Issued to OTSUKA ELECTRONICS on Dec. 16 for "Photodynamic therapy device comprising cooling water circulation unit for blood" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,388, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to OTSUKA ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Hirakata, Japan).

"Photodynamic therapy device comprising cooling water circulation unit for blood" was invented by Tamotsu Hamao (Hirakata, Japan), Akira Tanaka (Hirakata, Japan) and Shinpei Kajiwara (Hirakata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The photodynamic therapy device of the present disclosure is a photodynamic therapy device that irradiates light from a light source onto blood that has been taken out of a patient's body and is flowing in the blood tube, the blood having absorbed a photoreactive agent, to destroy an undesirable component in the blood or ...