ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,985, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Flow control valve" was invented by Michael Walsh (Galway, Ireland), Darren Curran (Galway, Ireland), Otto Van Der Kooij (Roscommon, Ireland), Daniel Tuck (Galway, Ireland), Javier Palomar-Moreno (Galway, Ireland), Jeff Gray (Sudbury, Mass.), Martyn Folan (Galway, Ireland), Emma J. Mooney (Galway, Ireland) and Enda Hannon (Galway, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices and establishing fluid communication between body lumens. In particular, the present disclosure relates t...