US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Dec. 30 for "Introducer sheath with imaging capability" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,983, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Introducer sheath with imaging capability" was invented by Leili Salehi (Waltham, Mass.), Charles A. Gibson (Malden, Mass.) and Zhihua He (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical introducer sheath comprises a tubular shaft and an ultrasonic transducer array. The tubular shaft has a proximal end, a distal end opposite the proximal end, an inner surface, and an outer surface. The shaft defines a longitudinal axis extending between the proximal end and the distal end. The inner surface and the outer surface define a wall havin...