ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,093, issued on April 7, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical device control apparatus and medical device" was invented by Yuichi Tada (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yoichiro Kuwano (Machida Tokyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device control apparatus for controlling a medical device configured to remove an object in a body cavity with a cutter that is rotatable via a rotatable drive shaft, includes a first motor configured to rotate the drive shaft, one or more sensors configured to detect a state of the first motor, and a controller configured to control the first motor to rotate the drive shaft based on the st...