ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,969, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Treatment method and treatment system" was invented by Keiko Otsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideto Nagata (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuuji Onimura (Shizuoka, Japan), Keiichiro Yamamoto (Shizuoka, Japan) and Miho Kai (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment method and a treatment system capable of effectively irradiating an antibody-photosensitive substance bound to a tumor cell with a near-infrared ray. The treatment method includes: intravenously administering the antibody-photosensitive substance; inserting a guide wire and a catheter into a main artery of an organ h...