ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,353, issued on July 29, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Agent delivery device" was invented by Daniel Congdon (Hudson, Mass.), Matthew Robert Jagelski (Marlborough, Mass.), Laurie A. Lehtinen (Boylston, Mass.) and Andrew Pic (Northboro, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device comprising a housing defining at least one enclosure for storing agent in a first form, a force applicator within the housing and adjacent the enclosure, a drive mechanism for moving the agent toward the force applicator, wherein the force applicator defines a surface for applying a force to the agent to separat...