ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,934, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to EPflex Feinwerktechnik GmbH (Dettingen/Erms, Germany).
"J-tip protective cap" was invented by Bernhard Uihlein (Dettingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A J-tip protective cap for a J-tip of a medical guide wire includes a proximal sleeve section, a distal hollow disk-shaped J-tip receiving section, which extends distally and laterally on one side in a distal end region of the sleeve section with a disk longitudinal axis perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the sleeve section and forms a J-tip receiving space in the interior, and a J-tip passage slot which leads proximally into the ...