US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO BAKELITE on Feb. 10 for "Gastrostomy catheter, insertion jig set, insertion jig and gastrostomy catheter set" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,317, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SUMITOMO BAKELITE Co. LTD. (Shinagawa-ku, Japan).

"Gastrostomy catheter, insertion jig set, insertion jig and gastrostomy catheter set" was invented by Hiroyuki Fukuda (Akita, Japan), Kiyotaka Arikawa (Akita, Japan), Minoru Suzuki (Akita, Japan) and Yutaka Suzuki (Chuo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The gastrostomy catheter includes a shaft in which a lumen is provided, a flexible bumper which is provided at a tip of the shaft, and a wire which has elasticity and can bias the bumper in a diameter-increasing direction and restricts deformation of the bumper in a diameter-decreasing dir...