US Patent Issued to Heraeus Medical Components on June 30 for "Joining dissimilar metals for guidewire applications" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,702, issued on June 30, was assigned to Heraeus Medical Components LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Joining dissimilar metals for guidewire applications" was invented by Jack Dant (St. Paul, Minn.), Mark Erie (Chaska, Minn.), David Johnson (Saint Louis Park, Minn.), Trent Birkholz (Excelsior, Minn.) and Eric Lundequam (Hopkins, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect is a method of forming a wire, including providing a first wire section comprising a first material, providing a second wire section comprising a second material different from the first material, cooling a joining section that comprises a superelastic material, inserting...