US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device on July 29 for "Steerable medical device handle" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,346, issued on July 29, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Ballybrit, Ireland).

"Steerable medical device handle" was invented by Gareth Davies (Guelph, Canada), Melanie Thompson (Kingston, Canada), Deepthi Gorapalli (Ottawa), Steve Copeland (Barrie, Canada), Robert G. Dickie (King, Canada), Amy Lefler (Mono, Canada) and Bogdan Beca (Thornhill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and systems are disclosed that incorporate a steerable catheter control handle for bi-directional control of a steerable catheter. The steerable catheter control handle includes a slide assembly positioned within the inner hou...