US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on June 17 for "Surgical clip and deployment system" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,389, issued on June 17, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Surgical clip and deployment system" was invented by Oleg Shikhman (Trumbull, Conn.), Jeffrey Radziunas (Wallingford, Conn.), Brian Michael Lamothe (Hamden, Conn.) and Carollynn Goldenberg (Farmington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for compressing body tissue including a clip having first and second tissue contacting surfaces. The clip is movable from a closed position to an open position wherein the clip receives tissue between the first and second tissue contacting surfaces to compress tissue between the first and second tis...