US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Dec. 9 for "Grasping devices, systems, and methods for tissue approximation and apposition" (Costa Rican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,984, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Grasping devices, systems, and methods for tissue approximation and apposition" was invented by Gonzalo Jose Saenz Villalobos (Alajuela, Costa Rica), Deborah Amaya Pineda (Santa Barbara, Costa Rica) and Viviana Artavia Salas (Heredia, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue-manipulating system including a tissue-manipulating device having a tissue grasper assembly with at least one grasper arm movably coupled to a shaft to move between a closed configuration and an open configuration. The at least one grasper arm may be pivotably cou...