ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,341, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Medical guidewire assembly having predetermined spatial geometry" was invented by John Paul Urbanski (Toronto) and Christian Balkovec (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical guidewire assembly is movable through guidewire introducer positionable proximate to a biological wall located within the body of a patient. Medical guidewire assembly has flexible distal shaft section configured to extend along the guidewire introducer. Medical guidewire assembly has a predetermined spatial geometry once the flexible distal shaf...