US Patent Issued to ASAHI INTECC on June 23 for "Guide wire with tapered core at the distal tip portion having various coil body to provide varying stiffness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,485, issued on June 23, was assigned to ASAHI INTECC Co. LTD. (Seto, Japan).

"Guide wire with tapered core at the distal tip portion having various coil body to provide varying stiffness" was invented by Aoi Maeda (Seto, Japan) and Kenta Tsuge (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide wire includes a core shaft having an elongated outer shape, a first coil body disposed to surround a distal end portion of the core shaft, a second coil body disposed radially outside from the first coil body, and a distal tip fixing a distal end of the core shaft and a distal end of the first coil body. In the longitudinal direction of the co...