US Patent Issued to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) on Aug. 26 for "Magnetic catheter" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,749, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Magnetic catheter" was invented by Gun Hee Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Eun Soo Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Na Hyun Kim (Busan, South Korea) and Ji Min Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic catheter is disclosed. The magnetic catheter comprises: a first fixed magnet which is coupled to the front end of a catheter tube; a guide rod of which one end is coupled to the front end of the catheter tube, and the other end protrudes to the front of the catheter tube by a predetermine...