ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,914, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Control assemblies for medical devices and related methods of use" was invented by Deepak Kumar Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical assembly that includes a medical device including a handle having an actuator, a shaft extending distally from the handle, and a sensor at a distal end of the shaft. The distal end of the shaft is coupled to the actuator by a wire extending through the shaft, and the sensor is configured to measure data indicative of the distal end of the shaft moving from a first position t...