US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Aug. 5 for "Endoscopic tissue approximation system and methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,847, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Endoscopic tissue approximation system and methods" was invented by Vladimir Mitelberg (Austin, Texas), Thomas Neudeck (Austin, Texas), Ryan Gilkey (Kyle, Texas), Naser Ahmad (Liberty Hill, Texas), Andrew Gant (Austin, Texas) and Donald K. Jones (Dripping Springs, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployment system includes a sheath, a torque able shaft having a handle positioned at its proximal end, a detachable helical first suture anchor positioned at the shafts distal end and an elongate suture fixedly coupled to the suture anchor. The...