US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Dec. 30 for "Occlusion device having spherical secondary shape and mandrel for forming same" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,033, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Occlusion device having spherical secondary shape and mandrel for forming same" was invented by John-Alan O'Brien (County Cork, Ireland), Conor O'Sullivan (Wilton Cork, Ireland) and Frank Ryan (Frankfield Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of the present disclosure pertain to spherical devices that comprise a wire having a memorized shape comprising a spherical outer wire layer and a spherical inner wire layer disposed within the spherical outer wire layer. Other aspects of the disclosure pertain to methods of forming s...