Catheter Patent Grant Guimaraes , et al. July 19, 2 [TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA]

Catheter

Guimaraes , et al. July 19, 2

Patent Grant D958351

U.S. patent number D958,351 [Application Number D/752,211] was granted by the patent office on 2022-07-19 for catheter. This patent grant is currently assigned to TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA. The grantee listed for this patent is TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA. Invention is credited to Marcelo Guimaraes, Ryo Okamura, Mitsuteru Yasunaga.

United States Patent	D958,351
Guimaraes , et al.	July 19, 2022

Catheter

Claims

CLAIM We claim, the ornamental design for a catheter, as shown and described.

Inventors:

Guimaraes; Marcelo (Mount Pleasant, SC), Okamura; Ryo (Shizuoka, JP), Yasunaga; Mitsuteru (Shizuoka, JP)

Applicant:

Name	City	State	Country	Type
TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA	Tokyo	N/A	JP

Assignee:

TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Tokyo, JP)

Appl. No.:

D/752,211

Filed:

September 25, 2020

Foreign Application Priority Data


Apr 1, 2020 [JP]			2020-006817

Current U.S. Class:	D24/140; D24/130
Current International Class:	2402
Field of Search:	;D24/112-114,127-131,133,140,146,108,186

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Primary Examiner: Vujcic; Natasha
Assistant Examiner: Ford; Gilbert B
Attorney, Agent or Firm: IPUSA, PLLC

Description

FIG. 1 is a front view of a catheter, showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof; and,

FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is a reduced-scale front view showing the catheter in a wound condition.

The broken lines shown in the drawings represent portions of the catheter that form no part of the claimed design. The parallel dash-dot lines in the drawings indicate that the appearance of any portion of the catheter between the break lines forms no part of the claimed design.

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