The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2022
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Tada, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yoichiro Kuwano, Tokyo, JP;
TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medical device for removing an object in a body cavity, includes a rotatable drive shaft, a cutter attached to a distal end of the drive shaft and by which the object is cut, a guide wire including one or more markers, a guide tube disposed at a distal portion of the drive shaft and including a lumen through which the guide wire can pass and a sensor configured to detect the one or more markers, and a controller configured to control an operation state of the cutter to be an operation disabled state in which the cutter cannot operate and an operation enabled state in which the cutter can operate, and to switch between the operation disabled state and the operation enabled state according to the one or more markers detected by the sensor.