US Patent Issued to TERUMO on June 30 for "Medical device and treatment method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,369, issued on June 30, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical device and treatment method" was invented by Yusuke Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukitoshi Kato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoaki Takemura (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is disclosed, which is capable of preventing a maintenance treatment element imparting energy to biological tissue from being displaced from a treatment target site and a treatment method performed on a heart failure patient. A medical device is disclosed, which includes a shaft portion, an expandable and contractible expansion body provided on a distal side of the sha...