US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES on March 17 for "Medical rubber composition, medical rubber part, and packaging article for medical rubber part" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,377, issued on March 17, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Medical rubber composition, medical rubber part, and packaging article for medical rubber part" was invented by Yogun Kida (Kobe, Japan), Kei Tajima (Kobe, Japan), Kazuki Nojiri (Kobe, Japan), Yuichiro Matsutani (Kobe, Japan), Toshiki Onishi (Kobe, Japan) and Toshikazu Kondo (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical rubber part in which non-elution characteristics are maintained even after sterilization with gamma ray, a packaging article for the medical rubber part, and a medical rubber composition for manufacturing the medical rubb...