US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Aug. 5 for "Tissue retractor for minimally invasive surgery" (California, Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,737, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Tissue retractor for minimally invasive surgery" was invented by Gregory Piskun (Delray Beach, Fla.), Brian Tang (Fremont, Calif.), Jeffrey P. Radziunas (Wallingford, Conn.), John To (Newark, Calif.) and Mariel Fabro (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved methods and devices for performing an endoscopic surgery including a system for performing minimally invasive procedures including a flexible catheter having a first lumen, a first flexible tube positioned in the first lumen, and a second flexible tube positioned in the first l...