US Patent Issued to KARDIUM on Oct. 7 for "Medical system including steerable catheter" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,036, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KARDIUM INC. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Medical system including steerable catheter" was invented by John Andrew Funk (Delta, Canada) and Ashkan Sardari (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Steerable catheters are provided, some of which include an axial member incorporated in an elongate shaft member, where, in some instances, different edge portions of the axial member exhibit different radii of curvature. In some instances, a furthest-apart pair of points on an external boundary of a cross-section of the axial member is closer to an interior edge than an exterior edge of a tubular ...