ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,704, issued on March 3, was assigned to RAPID MEDICAL LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Intraluminal device with looped core wire" was invented by Aharon Friedman (Haifa, Israel), Matan Gedulter (Givat Ela, Israel), Ronen Eckhouse (Shimshit, Israel) and Moshe Miller (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intraluminal and endovascular devices and methods of manufacturing intraluminal and endovascular devices may be provided. In one implementation, an intraluminal device may include a sheath having a flexible distal bending segment and a core wire arranged within the sheath. The core wire may include a distal end portion doubled back in a lo...