ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,400, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TVA Medical Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Devices and methods for advancing a wire" was invented by William E. Cohn (Bellaire, Texas), Thomas Diffley Pate (Austin, Texas) and Philip M. Tetzlaff (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for positioning a wire for advancement through a vessel wall, and advancing it through one or more vessel walls, generally include a delivery catheter and an alignment catheter or a receiving catheter, and a guidewire. In some variations, the systems and methods may be used to bypass an occlusion or other barrier that may prevent advanceme...