US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 3 for "Articulation control device and methods of use" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,022, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Articulation control device and methods of use" was invented by Evan Wilder (Boston) and Sean Powell (Holden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a handle including an actuating device, a shaft extending from the handle and having a longitudinal axis, a cam rotatably connected to the handle, wherein the cam includes a first section and a second section, and wherein a distance between a radially outer surface of the first section and a center of the cam is different from a distance between a radially outer surface of t...