US Patent Issued to RAPID MEDICAL on Sept. 29 for "Guide wire activation mechanism and proximal actuation mechanism" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,369, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to RAPID MEDICAL LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Guide wire activation mechanism and proximal actuation mechanism" was invented by Aharon Friedman (Haifa, Israel), Matan Gedulter (Givat Ela, Israel), Moshe Miller (Jerusalem) and Ronen Eckhouse (Shimshit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraluminal guide wire may include an elongated shaft extending between a distal and a proximal end. The guide wire may include a user actuation segment positioned proximal to the proximal end of the shaft and configured for movement relative to the shaft. The guide wire may include a core wire affixed to the u...