US Patent Issued to TERUMO on Oct. 27 for "Medical device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,226, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical device" was invented by Kosuke Nishio (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device including a long shaft, the shaft including a distal end tube made of metal, the distal end tube provided with a distal end side rough surface portion having an uneven shape provided on an outer surface of a distal end, a proximal end side rough surface portion having an uneven shape provided on an outer surface of a proximal end, and an intermediate portion as a region between the distal end side rough surface portion and the proximal end side rough surface portio...