US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Dec. 9 for "Medical systems, devices, and related methods" (American, Irish, Costa Rican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,344, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Medical systems, devices, and related methods" was invented by Lauren Lydecker (Millbury, Mass.), Andrew Pic (Northboro, Mass.), Martin Burke (Galway, Ireland), Juan Pablo Ortiz Garcia (Heredia, Costa Rica), Travis Henchie (Worcester, Mass.), John Favreau (Spencer, Mass.) and Jessica Powers (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system includes a source of a material, a first tube, and a second tube. The material is configured to expand form a porous body after the material is deployed into a body lumen. The first tube is configured t...