Article: Patent No. 7,608,056 Issued on Oct. 27, Assigned to Wilson-Cook Medical for Steerable Catheter Devices (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 29 -- Kenneth C. Kennedy II, Clemmons, N.C., has developed a steerable catheter devices and methods of articulating catheter devices. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,608,056 on Oct. 27.

The patent has been assigned to Wilson-Cook Medical Inc., Winston-Salem, N.C.

According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Steerable catheter devices are provided having a proximal first end portion, an elongate intermediate portion, and a distal flexible second end portion defining a longitudinal axis, and at least one channel having a proximal opening and terminating at an occluded distal end radially offset relative to the central ...

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