US Patent Issued to TERUMO on Nov. 3 for "Medical device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,670, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical device" was invented by Yusuke Takahashi (Hadano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device that is capable of reducing release of a state in which an energy transmission element is pressed against a biological tissue due to an erroneous operation or a malfunction of an operation unit. The medical device includes an expandable body, a shaft portion connected to the expandable body, an energy transmission element provided in the expandable body, a housing connected to a proximal end portion of the shaft portion, a displacement shaft configured to compress ...