ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,728, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Guide wire" was invented by Shinji Kondo (Ebina, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide wire is disclosed for guiding a tubular elongated body to be inserted into a living body can include: an elongated shaft portion that has flexibility; a puncture portion that is disposed at a distal end portion of the shaft portion and forms a hole in a biological tissue; and a cover portion that is formed of a wire member wound in a spiral shape, has a contraction portion that is contractible, and covers the puncture portion. The contraction portion is capable of causing the punc...