US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Dec. 30 for "Devices, systems, and methods for accessing a body lumen" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,047, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for accessing a body lumen" was invented by Andrew J. Schaubhut (Bolton, Mass.), Laura E. Christakis (Framingham, Mass.), Ryan V. Wales (Northborough, Mass.), Paul Smith (Smithfield, R.I.) and Gene T. Storbeck (Millis, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices for accessing body lumens. In an embodiment, a catheter may include a shaft having a proximal end, a distal end, and a length along a longitudinal axis extending through the shaft. A plurality of l...