ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,895, issued on March 25, was assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Attachments for endoscopes" was invented by Harchetan Singh Aneja (Amritsar, India), Boopathi Rajarathnam (Salem, India), Swami Upadhyay (Raipur, India), Shalin Singh Rawat (Rishikesh, India) and Venkatesh Neelamegam (Tirupur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Attachments for endoscopes as well as methods for making and using attachments are disclosed. An example attachment may include a housing. One or more angled locking members may extend from an inner surface of the housing. The angled locking members may be designed to engage a...