ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,139, issued on June 24, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Medical devices for agent delivery and related methods of use" was invented by Andrew Pic (Northboro, Mass.), Collin Murray (Maynard, Mass.) and Laurie A. Lehtinen (Boylston, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may be configured to deliver an agent to a target tissue via a pressurized fluid and the device may include a catheter including a lumen; an enclosure configured to store the agent, receive the pressurized fluid, and release a combination of the pressurized fluid and the agent; and a valve downstream of the enclosure to recei...