US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Jan. 27 for "Medical device with a flow controller" (Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,154, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Medical device with a flow controller" was invented by Paul Smith (Smithfield, R.I.), Ryan V. Wales (Northborough, Mass.), Sean P. Fleury (Minneapolis), Laura Elizabeth Christakis (Framingham, Mass.), Scott E. Brechbiel (Acton, Mass.), Jeff Gray (Sudbury, Mass.) and Mingxiang Xu (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling the flow of fluid through a medical device may include a medical device having a lumen that extends to a distal end of the medical device; a fluid source configured to supply fluid having a positi...