U.S. Patent 7857813 was awarded to Baxano, Inc. on 2010-12-28 and describes a “Tissue access guidewire system and method.” This patent has been cited 295 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative medical technology patents in the field of instruments. The abstract states:

A method and system for guiding at least a portion of a surgical device to a desired position between two tissues in a patient’s body involves coupling a guidewire to the device and pulling the distal end of the guidewire to guide at least a portion of the surgical device to a desired position between the two tissues. The surgical device generally includes one or more guidewire coupling members and may comprise a tissue access device. A system may include a guidewire and a surgical device. In some embodiments, a guidewire, a tissue access device, and one or more additional devices to use with the access device may be provided. Methods, devices and systems may be used in open, less-invasive or percutaneous surgical procedures, in various embodiments. Link: U.S. Patent 7857813

This patent was originally filed on 2006-08-29 which gives it a processing time of 1582 days, compared to an average processing time of 1933 in the field. Baxano, Inc. has 27 total patents. The first named inventor is Jefferey C. Bleam of Boulder Creek, CA. The primary examiner was Max Hindenburg.

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