US Patent Issued to TERUMO on Oct. 20 for "Medical device with expansion body and elastically deformable part" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,944, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical device with expansion body and elastically deformable part" was invented by Yusuke Takahashi (Hadano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device that is configured to stably hold and expand biological tissue through a certain amount of pulling operation by ways of an expansion body includes: an expansion body expandable and contractible in a radial direction; an elongated shaft portion that includes a distal end part including a proximal end fixing portion to which a proximal end of the expansion body is fixed; and a hand operation unit disposed on a pro...