US Patent Issued to NIPRO on March 24 for "Guide wire connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,323, issued on March 24, was assigned to NIPRO Corp. (Settsu, Japan).

"Guide wire connector" was invented by Katsuya Miyagawa (Osaka, Japan), Natsumi Shimazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoe Morita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector is provided with a holding component, a support component, a terminal electrically connected to a contact of a guide wire held by the holding component, and a guide component rotatable around an axial line of the guide wire with respect to the support component. The holding component is provided with a body having an insertion hole for the guide wire and a holding piece extending along an...