ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,130, issued on May 27, was assigned to ASAHI INTECC Co. LTD. (Seto, Japan).
"Guide wire" was invented by Keisuke Ushida (Seto, Japan) and Kenji Yoshida (Seto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide wire including a first core shaft made of a superelastic material, and a second core shaft made of a material more susceptible to plastic deformation than of the first core shaft and joined to a distal end side of the first core shaft on a proximal end side. On a joint part between the first core shaft and the second core shaft, the first core shaft and the second core shaft are adjacent to each other in a first direction. A flat por...