US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 22 for "Systems and methods for eccentric nodule tissue acquisition" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,465, issued on July 22, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for eccentric nodule tissue acquisition" was invented by Sean Fleury (Princeton, Mass.), Gary Leanna (Holden, Mass.), Douglas Garrity (Waltham, Mass.) and Thinh Nguyen (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of endoscopy. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for real-time visualization and sampling of target tissue within body passages. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a system that provides real-time visualization of eccentri...