US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific on May 27 for "Medical articulation devices and methods of using the same" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,558, issued on May 27, was assigned to Boston Scientific Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Medical articulation devices and methods of using the same" was invented by Deepak Kumar Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India), James J. Scutti (Norwell, Mass.) and Sharath Kumar G (Kanakapura, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device that includes a handle, a shaft extending distally from the handle, an end effector extending distally from the shaft, and a first actuator coupled to the handle and secured to a first wire. The first wire extends through the shaft, and the first actuator is configured to pivot relative to the shaft to pull the first ...