ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,936, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Deepin Technologies LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Guidewire and medical device including laser cut tube" was invented by Jon Schabert (San Jose, Calif.), Jiaxu Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Alex Kubacki (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guidewire device includes an elongate core wire and a tube member over the distal section of the elongate core wire. The tube member comprises a plurality of transverse cuts at a plurality of axial locations of the tube member, forming a plurality of circumferentially extending rings joined by a plurality of beams. The plurality of transverse cuts comp...