ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,484, issued on June 23, was assigned to ASAHI INTECC Co. LTD. (Seto, Japan) and PATHWAYS MEDICAL Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Guidewire with conductive element" was invented by Nitin Patil (Danville, Calif.), Minoru Ogawa (Seto, Japan) and Philip R. Houle (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple approaches to incorporating multiple conductors on a guidewire by building the multiple conductor traces of variable sizes and material compositions on separate insulating layers are described. The approaches described in the invention facilitate ease of assembly of sensors to the guidewire or catheter element. This approac...