US Patent Issued to Cook Medical Technologies on Aug. 4 for "MRI compatible interventional wireguide" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,470, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"MRI compatible interventional wireguide" was invented by Ram H Paul (Bloomington, Ind.), Richard Swift (South Bend, Ind.), Shuo Yang (West Lafayette, Ind.), Tracy Willis (Bloomington, Ind.) and Gary Neff (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to medical devices and methods of assembling medical devices, such as MRI-compatible interventional wireguides. An example of a wireguide includes a series of individual segments, a plurality of connectors, and a plurality of spacers. Each segment in the series of individua...