US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for tissue coagulation" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,021, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for tissue coagulation" was invented by Kenneth Reever (Hopedale, Mass.), Richard Tah (Milford, Mass.), Jozef Slanda (Milford, Mass.) and Aditi Ray (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device may include a handle having a handle lumen extending therethrough. The medical device further may include a first body shaft including a first body shaft lumen in direct communication with the handle lumen and an RF electrode tip may be positioned at a distal end of the first body shaft. The RF electrode tip may i...