US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device on Dec. 2 for "Medical articulation devices and methods of using the same" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,922, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Medical articulation devices and methods of using the same" was invented by Deepak Kumar Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India), James J. Scutti (Norwell, Mass.) and Sharath Kumar G (Kanakapura, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device that includes a handle, a shaft extending distally from the handle, an end effector extending distally from the shaft, a first actuator movably coupled to the handle, and a second actuator movably coupled to the handle. The first actuator is configured to (1) articulate the shaft in response to translati...