ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,370, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Guidewire having radiopaque inner coil" was invented by Puneet Kamal Singh Gill (Anaheim, Calif.), Jonathan P. Durcan (Temecula, Calif.) and Jessica Saenz (Lake Elsinore, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guidewire for use in intravascular procedures has an inner coil that is radiopaque and an outer coil that is non-radiopaque at the distal end of the guidewire. The radiopaque inner coil is visible under fluoroscopy so that the physician can monitor the location of the distal end of the guidewire during a procedure. The inner co...