US Patent Issued to TERUMO on Dec. 2 for "Medical device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,928, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical device" was invented by Junichi Kobayashi (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yuichi Tada (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device for removing an object in a body cavity, includes a rotatable drive shaft having a lumen, a cutter disposed at a distal portion of the drive shaft and by which the object is cut, a drive shaft driving source configured to rotate the drive shaft, a fluid driving source configured to move a fluid from a distal side to a proximal side of the lumen, a switch, and a controller configured to, in response to the switch being turn...