US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device on July 29 for "Coupling mechanisms for medical devices" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,354, issued on July 29, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Coupling mechanisms for medical devices" was invented by Jeffery Arnett (Gilbert, Ariz.), Moussa Chehade (Toronto) and John Paul Urbanski (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and systems are disclosed that incorporate coupling mechanisms to enable coupling of two mating member such as medical devices such as introducers, sheaths, dilators. More specifically, the disclosure relates to releasable coupling mechanisms, to allow for releasable coupling of two medical devices such as a dilator and a sheath so the devices can be ma...