US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on June 17 for "Hemostatic clip with needle passer" (Rhode Island, Florida, California, Massachusetts, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,390, issued on June 17, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Hemostatic clip with needle passer" was invented by Samuel Raybin (San Jose, Calif.), Paul Smith (Smithfield, R.I.), Norman C. May (Valrico, Fla.), Narunn Suon (Lawrence, Mass.), Matthew Jagelski (Milford, Mass.), Ray Hewenson Tong (Foxborough, Mass.), John B. Golden (Norton, Mass.), Kevin James McElwee (Berwick, Maine) and Andrew James Whitney (Douglas, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for treating a tissue opening includes a proximal portion including an elongated flexible member, a capsule releasably coupled to a distal end of...