US Patent Issued to TERUMO on March 24 for "Medical device and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,752, issued on March 24, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical device and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Yuki Ueno (Matsuda, Japan), Masanori Kuramoto (Hiratsuka, Japan), Hiroki Hosono (Hadano, Japan) and Hiromasa Kohama (Hadano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device that exhibits an excellent lubricating property includes: a substrate layer; and a surface lubricious layer formed on at least a part of the substrate layer, and containing a hydroxy group-containing compound selected from a group consisting of a non-volatile alcohol, a partially esterified product thereof, and a partially etherif...