ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,401, issued on March 25, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Ballybrit, Ireland).
"Steerable medical device handle" was invented by Gareth Davies (Toronto), Melanie Thompson Smith (Kingston, Canada), Deepthi Gorapalli (Ottawa), Steve Copeland (Barrie, Canada), Robert Dickie (King City, Canada), Amy Lefler (Mono, Canada) and Bogdan Beca (Thornhill, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable catheter control handle and method are provided for bi-directional control of a steerable catheter, the catheter including at least two control wires, a distal end of each of the control wires being coupled to the cathete...