US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Sept. 8 for "Magnetically driven crossing tools for arterial and venous occlusions" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,896, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Magnetically driven crossing tools for arterial and venous occlusions" was invented by Cedar Decker (Albertville, Minn.), Mitchell Erickson (Crystal, Minn.) and Kerianne Steucke (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guidewire insertion device (10) includes a first guidewire (12) including an electromagnetic tip (14); a second guidewire (16) including a magnetic tip (18); and a controller (33) configured to modulate a force of the electromagnetic tip of the first guidewire to control movement of the magnetic tip of the second gui...