US Patent Issued to TERUMO on Sept. 29 for "Medical device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,032, issued on Sept. 29, 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 insertable into a living body lumen includes a drive shaft that rotates in a predetermined direction of rotation in response to a proximal side driving force to transmit a rotational force in a distal direction. The drive shaft includes: an inner coil of plural wires wound side-by-side in a circumferential direction of the drive shaft; and an outer coil of plural wires wound side-by-side in the circumferential direction of the drive shaft and surrounding the inne...