US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device on Oct. 7 for "Methods and devices for puncturing tissue" (Canadian, Null Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,639, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Methods and devices for puncturing tissue" was invented by Gareth Davies (Toronto), John Paul Urbanski (Toronto), Ferryl Alley (Devonshire, Bermuda) and Bogdan Beca (Thornhill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel and unique medical devices and associated methods are disclosed, for a medical device for puncturing tissue at a tissue site. The medical device includes an elongate member having a distal section defining a distal section curved portion and a distal section straight portion. The distal section straight portion is distal t...