US Patent Issued to TERUMO on Sept. 15 for "Guide wire and method of manufacturing guide wire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,340, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Guide wire and method of manufacturing guide wire" was invented by Akihiro Maruyama (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide wire having a shaping property capable of shaping into a desired shape and a shape retaining property of retaining a shape at a time of shaping against an external force applied in a blood vessel, thereby allowing a procedure to be easily performed while maintaining high operability and blood vessel selectivity; and a method of manufacturing a guide wire. The guide wire includes an elongated core component including a flat portion at a d...