US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device, Boston Scientific Scimed on May 27 for "Interface mechanism for repositioning and deployment of over the scope clip" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,596, issued on May 27, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland) and Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Interface mechanism for repositioning and deployment of over the scope clip" was invented by Arun Adhikarath Balan (Aluva, India), Rajivkumar Singh (Thane, India), Deepak Kumar Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India), Paul Smith (Smithfield, R.I.) and Junaid Mohammed Shaikh (Surat, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for treating tissue includes a cap mounted over a distal end of an endoscope, a clip mountable over the cap and including first and second jaws movably connected to one a...