US Patent Issued to TERUMO on June 2 for "Medical device and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,892, issued on June 2, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical device and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Masanori Kuramoto (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes: a substrate layer; an adhesive layer formed on at least a part of the substrate layer and containing a hydrophilic copolymer (1) containing a structural unit derived from a polymerizable monomer (A) having a sulfobetaine structure, a structural unit derived from a polymerizable monomer (B) having at least one group selected from the group consisting of a sulfonic acid group (-SO3H), a sulfuric acid group (-OSO3H), a s...