US Patent Issued to SOFKEN, NATIONAL CANCER CENTER on July 28 for "Probe, packaged probe, external device coupler, and biofeedback device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,794, issued on July 28, was assigned to SOFKEN Co. LTD. (Shiroi, Japan) and NATIONAL CANCER CENTER (Tokyo).

"Probe, packaged probe, external device coupler, and biofeedback device" was invented by Yuji Nishizawa (Tokyo), Takeo Komamura (Shiroi, Japan) and Kenzo Komamura (Shiroi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe includes an insertion portion insertable into a body organ, a projecting portion being exposed to an outside of a body after the insertion portion is inserted into the body organ, a device mounting area onto which an external-device coupler is removably mountable, and sensing electrodes provided on the insertion po...