ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,095, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Terumitsu Hasebe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Global Vascular Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Metal material for medical device, method of manufacturing metal material for medical device, and medical device" was invented by Terumitsu Hasebe (Kawasaki, Japan) and Shunto Maegawa (Toyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a metal material for a medical device, the metal material including a metal layer, and a diamond-like carbon layer provided on the metal layer and containing fluorine and silicon."
The patent was filed on Nov. 9, 2020, under Application No. 18/035,545.
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