US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on June 17 for "Anchoring devices, systems, and methods for implantable device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,638, issued on June 17, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Anchoring devices, systems, and methods for implantable device" was invented by Graham Krumpelmann (Stillwater, Minn.) and Levi Wolterstorff (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchoring system including an anchoring assembly having two or more anchor elements, and anchor drive mechanism having a respective actuator portion couplable with each anchor element and operable to separately and independently actuate each anchor element. In some embodiments, the actuator portions are on different portions of a common actuator compon...