US Patent Issued to Coraflo on Sept. 15 for "Steerable guide wire and catheter with shape change in-situ" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,335, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Coraflo Ltd. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Steerable guide wire and catheter with shape change in-situ" was invented by Ludwig K. von Segesser (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable guide wire and/or a catheter device and associated method. The device includes a guide wire having a distal end, a hollow interior, and an anchoring mechanism positioned proximate to the distal end of the guide wire. The device further includes a core wire is slidably inserted into the hollow interior of the guide wire. Upon insertion, the core wire actuates the anchoring mechanism to anchor...