US Patent Issued to TERUMO on June 30 for "Surgical simulator and simulation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,810, issued on June 30, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Surgical simulator and simulation method" was invented by Kouji Ozaki (Naka-gun, Japan), Ayumi Hattori (Atsugi, Japan) and Satoshi Kikuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical simulator and a simulation method are disclosed. The surgical simulator includes a blood vessel model. The blood vessel model includes an aorta model simulating a case of replacing a part of the thoracic aorta of a human body with an artificial blood vessel. The aorta model includes a simulated vessel and an artificial blood vessel, or a medical device, connected to the simulated vessel."...