ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,067, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Ballybrit, Ireland).
"Guidewire assembly" was invented by Christian Balkovec (Kitchener, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guidewire assembly configured to be deployed from an ancillary assembly. The guidewire assembly has a distal puncture tip extending from a deployed distal-shaped section configured to mitigate piercing tip touch back on a biological wall after the elongated guidewire assembly is deployed from the ancillary assembly, and the distal puncture tip crosses a biological wall."
The patent was filed on May 7, 2021, under Application N...