ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,388, issued on March 18, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Endoscopic positioning encoder" was invented by Ryan V. Wales (Northborough, Mass.), Morgan Zhu (Somerville, Mass.), Kurt Nicholas Robakiewicz (Upton, Mass.), Scott E. Brechbiel (Burlington, Mass.) and Jeff Gray (Sudbury, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for tracking a medical device, the system comprising a support having a channel extending therethrough, the channel being defined circumferentially by a surface, at least one encoder configured to track movement of a medical device through the channel, and one or more processor...