ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,820, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Heat exchange and temperature sensing device and method of use" was invented by Amanda Hartley (Caledon, Canada), Gareth Davies (Toronto), Amanda Centazzo-Colella (Toronto), Noah Yang (Ottawa), Yasir Al-Saffar (Oakville, Canada), Kishan Shah (Etobicoke, Canada), Andrew Herbert-Copley (Toronto), Ramunas Wierzbicki (Toronto), Dmitry Gerber (Toronto), Daniel Wing Fai Mok (Mississauga, Canada), Trevor James Dell (Etobicoke, Canada) and Hamed Avari (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed for regul...