US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 3 for "Devices and methods for guiding a surgical instrument" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,140, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices and methods for guiding a surgical instrument" was invented by Erik E Sperry (Newburyport, Mass.), Jerry T. Long (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Ronald Ciulla (Westford, Mass.), Timothy P. Harrah (Cambridge, Mass.), Aaron K. Kirkemo (Gladstone, N.J.), Mark A. Hera (Holden, Mass.), Kenneth P. Reever (Hopedale, Mass.), Brandon W. Craft (Edgewater, Md.), Elizabeth A. Stokley (Baltimore), Sebastian Koerner (Berlin) and Chad Schneider (Owings Mills, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices for guiding an instrument into a body of a patient, at a t...