US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 8 for "Control mechanism for end effectors and method of use" (Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,932, issued on July 8, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Control mechanism for end effectors and method of use" was invented by Kathryn Gildersleeve (Maple Grove, Minn.), Ramon Estevez (Lowell, Mass.), Christopher R. Deuel (Melrose, Mass.), Barry Weitzner (Acton, Mass.) and Maggie Burds (Peosta, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a shaft including a longitudinal axis, an end effector connected to a distal end of the shaft to move from a first orientation, where a longitudinal axis of the end effector is approximately parallel to the longitudinal axis of the shaft, to a seco...