ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,402, issued on March 25.
"Marker band pull wire assembly and method of use thereof" was invented by Olivier Bataille (Lachine, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pull wire assembly for integrating into and anchoring an end of a steerable catheter or introducer sheath used in medical procedures; it has a pull ring made at least in part from a radiopaque material that, when integrated into the end of the steerable catheter or the introducer sheath, allows for visualizing the end of the steerable catheter or the introducer sheath during a medical procedure; and one or more pull wires with a different material composition from that...