ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,158, issued on July 15, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Medical devices and related methods thereof" was invented by Hitendra Purohit (Gurgaon, India), Deepak Kumar Sharma (Gurgaon, India) and Madhurima Debnath (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device comprising a handle, a shaft extending from the handle, and an inflatable module at a distal portion of the shaft, the module including a camera, wherein the shaft includes a body defining a first channel extending between a first end configured to be in fluid communication with a fluid source, and a second end in fluid co...