US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 4 for "Devices and methods for tissue retraction" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,657, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices and methods for tissue retraction" was invented by Ryan V. Wales (Northborough, Mass.), Ramon Estevez (Lowell, Mass.), Nicholas J. Mazzola (Hudson, Mass.), Beth Benesh (Marlborough, Mass.) and Nelly Nganga (Lowell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure pertains to medical devices. More particularly, the present disclosure pertains to tissue retraction devices and related delivery systems and methods."

The patent was filed on Oct. 1, 2018, under Application No. 16/148,880.

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