ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,372, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Boston Scientific Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda).

"Medical fixation systems and methods of using the same" was invented by Balaji Aswatha Narayana (Karnataka, India), Aditya Dhanotiya (Indore, India), Shrikant Vasant Raut (Mumbai, India), James Weldon (Newton, Mass.) and Biten Kishore Kathrani (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device that includes a clamp having a body defining a channel and a fixation member that is configured to move relative to the body from an unlocked position to a locked position. The medical device includes an actuator coupled to the fixation member and c...