US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device, Boston Scientific Scimed on Jan. 27 for "Repositional over the scope clip with frangible link" (Indian, American, Costa Rican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,141, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland) and Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Repositional over the scope clip with frangible link" was invented by Gonzalo Jose Saenz Villalobos (Alajuela, Costa Rica), Paul Smith (Smithfield, R.I.), Deepak Kumar Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India) and Sharath Kumar G (Kanakapura, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clipping system includes an adapter, a clip and a first extending member. The clip includes first and second jaws which are movable between an insertion configuration and an initial deployed configuration. The jaws are...