ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,821, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Adaptable devices, system, and methods for providing sealable access to a working channel" was invented by Amit Bharos (Jabalpur, India), Swami Upadhyay (Raipur, India) and Venkata Minnikanti (Vetapalem, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter for allowing a cap assembly to fit securely on two or more medical device ports with different sizes, shapes, and/or dimensions. The cap assembly has a housing with an interior configuration corresponding with an exterior configuration of a first port and surrounding port region of a medic...