US Patent Issued to TERUMO on Aug. 18 for "Aspiration system and aspiration method" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,392, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Aspiration system and aspiration method" was invented by Yoshiki Mishima (Cupertino, Calif.), Kazuaki Kanamoto (Hadano city, Japan) and Masaomi Imai (Kofu-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspiration system is disclosed that is configured to capture and aspirate a thrombus flowing within a blood vessel and includes a capture device provided with an expandable capture unit and a capture wire extending from the capture unit, and an aspiration device provided with an aspiration tube and an aspiration port. The capture unit includes a plurality of linear members th...