US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device on Oct. 14 for "Transvascular electrosurgical devices and systems and methods of using the same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,266, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Transvascular electrosurgical devices and systems and methods of using the same" was invented by Yun Uhm (Toronto), Gareth Davies (Toronto), Jason Woo (Mississauga, Canada) and Prateek Mathur (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, and method of using the same are disclosed for carrying out a transvascular procedure such as a Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) procedure using energy to create a tract between the hepatic vein and the portal vein. The present invention provides a method using a flexib...