US Patent Issued to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC on July 1 for "Devices, systems, and methods for providing sealable access to a working channel" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,987, issued on July 1, was assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC Ltd. (St. Michael, Barbados).

"Devices, systems, and methods for providing sealable access to a working channel" was invented by Harchetan S. Aneja (Amritsar, India), Amit Bharos (Jabalpur, India), Swami Upadhyay (Raipur, India) and Boopathi Rajarathnam (Salem, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to valve configurations providing sealable access for medical instruments to a working channel, such as a working channel for an endoscope."

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