ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,245, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Endoscopic strip delivery device" was invented by Phuc Huu Nguyen (Houston), Samuel Goshen (Brookline, Mass.), Jeffrey V. Bean (Fitchburg, Mass.) and Megan Dunkin (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a body and a clipping mechanism including first and second clipping members. At least the first member is rotatably coupled to a distal end of the body so that the mechanism transitions between Closed State, in which distal ends of the members are in abutting contact, and Open State, in which the first member is rotated away f...