US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on March 31 for "Steerable intra-luminal medical device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,223, issued on March 31, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Steerable intra-luminal medical device" was invented by Daniel H. Kim (Houston), Dong Suk Shin (Houston) and Viljar Palmre (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a flexible, narrow medical device (such as a micro-catheter or a guidewire) that is controllably moved and steered through lumens of a body. The medical device may include an electrically-actuatable bendable portion at a distal end, which may be provided by a polymer electrolyte layer, electrodes distributed about the polymer electro...