US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 3 for "Medical devices and related methods" (Irish, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,108, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Medical devices and related methods" was invented by Enda Connaughton (County Galway, Ireland), Aiden Flanagan (County Galway, Ireland), Charlene Deane (County Roscommon, Ireland), Natalie Byrom (Boston), Richard Crawford (Galway, Ireland), Catherine Mary Higgins (Belfast, Great Britain), Martin Lawrence Fawdry (Galway, Ireland), Michael Hughes (Galway, Ireland), Anthony O'Brien (Galway, Ireland) and Jason O'Connell (County Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a handle including a stationary body, a first mov...