ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,746, issued on March 11, was assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Devices, systems, and methods for a biopsy cap and housing" was invented by Harchetan Singh Aneja (Amritsar, India), Amit Sharad Bharos (Jabalpur, India), Swami Upadhyay (Raipur, India), Boopathi Rajarathnam (Salem, India), Shalin Singh Rawat (Rishikesh, India) and Venkatesh Neelamegam (Tirupur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical instruments. More particularly, the present disclosure pertains to medical instruments for use with an endoscope, such as a biopsy cap and a b...