US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 3 for "Medical device having extendable members" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,168, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Medical device having extendable members" was invented by Shawn Kerr (Lancaster, Mass.), John A. Hingston (Framingham, Mass.), Tara A. Jarobski (North Oxford, Mass.), Gene T. Storbeck (Franklin, Mass.) and Allison M. Pearlman (Holden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides design, material, manufacturing method, and use alternatives for medical devices. An example medical device includes a scaffold including a central member and a plurality of extension members extending away from the central member. The central member in...