ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,917, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland) and Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Endoscopic clip with positive lock" was invented by Rajivkumar Singh (Thane, India), Shrikant Vasant Raut (Mumbai, India), Arun Adhikarath Balan (Aluva, India) and Paul Smith (Smithfield, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clipping system includes a cap, a clip and a control member. The cap includes a channel extending therethrough. A proximal portion of the cap is mounted over the endoscope such that a distal portion of the cap extends distally past a distal end of an endoscope. ...