ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,380, issued on April 8, was assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).
"Scaffold devices, systems, and methods for tissue traction" was invented by Nabarun Bhowmick (Kolkata, India), Deepak K. Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India) and Shrikant V. Raut (Mumbai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue traction device including a scaffold structure configured to anchor the tissue traction device in place such that a tissue traction element is anchored upon deployment of the scaffold structure and without further manipulation of the tissue traction device (such as to grasp tissue or otherwise anchor the tissue tra...