US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 1 for "Methods and devices for access across adjacent tissue layers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,072, issued on July 1, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Methods and devices for access across adjacent tissue layers" was invented by Peter S. Brown (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sith Khoune (Fremont, Calif.), Keke Lepulu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Ryan R. Donovan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kenneth F. Binmoeller (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adjacent tissue layers can be accessed using a catheter device with a distal tip having a conductive portion including a first cutting feature and one or more projections extending from the first cutting feature towards an outer diameter of the distal tip. Elec...