US Patent Issued to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE on July 22 for "Devices, systems, and methods for tissue traction" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,499, issued on July 22, was assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Devices, systems, and methods for tissue traction" was invented by Nabarun Bhowmick (Kolkata, India), Deepak K. Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India), Subodh Morey (Ponda, India), Shrikant V. Raut (Mumbai, India), James J. Scutti (Norwell, Mass.), Lauren S. Lydecker (Millbury, Mass.), Barry Weitzner (Acton, Mass.) and James Weldon (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elongated tissue traction device adhered to target tissue and configured to lift the target tissue away from surrounding tissue. The tissue traction device may lift the ...