ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,889, issued on June 10, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Fluid management system and methods" was invented by Aaron Germain (Campbell, Calif.) and Kyle Klein (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hysteroscopic fluid management system includes a saline source with an electrolyte concentration, at least one pressure mechanism for circulating saline to and from a targeted site and through a filter having filter characteristics back to the source, and a controller. The controller provides a saline inflow in a first flow path to the site and a saline outflow in a second flow path from the s...