US Patent Issued to ASAHI INTECC on Sept. 8 for "Guide wire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,238, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ASAHI INTECC Co. LTD. (Seto, Japan).

"Guide wire" was invented by Fumitaka Satoh (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide wire includes a core shaft and a twisted wire coil body having a plurality of wires twisted together and arranged along an outer periphery of the core shaft. The twisted wire coil body includes a distal end portion including a distal end and a feature portion, and a proximal end portion, and has a smaller outer diameter in the feature portion than at the proximal end portion. Among the plurality of wires, an outermost wire having a longest distance to a center poi...