US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 15 for "Medical device with extendable shaft" (Illinois, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,160, issued on July 15, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Medical device with extendable shaft" was invented by Prashanth Somasundaram (Chicago), Jennifer Whelehan (Westborough, Mass.), Rahul Prabhu (Cambridge, Mass.), Tess Davis (Brighton, Mass.), Tara Ann Jarobski (North Oxford, Mass.) and Gene Thomas Storbeck (Millis, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device may comprise a handle, a first shaft extending from a distal end of the handle, and a second shaft extending a lumen of the first shaft. The handle may further include a first actuator and a second actuator. The first shaft may i...