ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,291, issued on March 4, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Medical systems, device, and related methods thereof" was invented by Deepak Kumar Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India) and James J. Scutti (Norwell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device comprising a handle extending between a first end and a second end, a first actuator coupled to the first end of the handle, a first shaft coupled to the second end of the handle, and a second shaft extending from the first shaft, the second shaft including a first articulation section and ...