US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed, The Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 9 for "Devices, systems and methods for transmitting motion to the distal tip of an endoscopic accessory tool" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,827, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.) and The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Devices, systems and methods for transmitting motion to the distal tip of an endoscopic accessory tool" was invented by Marc Chelala (Baltimore), Sritam P. Rout (Lowell, Mass.), Maria F. Torres (Baltimore), Kyle R. Cowdrick (Baltimore), David M. Gullotti (Baltimore), Amir Hossein Soltanianzadeh (Baltimore), George Coles (Baltimore), Youseph Yazdi (Ellicott City, Md.), Pankaj J. Pasricha (Ellicott City, Md.), Ryan V. Wales (Northborough, Mass.), Demetri Monovoukas (Cambridge, Mass.) and John T. Favreau (Spencer, Mass.).

According to the abstrac...