US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on March 4 for "Cauterization devices, methods, and systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,370, issued on March 4, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Cauterization devices, methods, and systems" was invented by Hui Wang (Fremont, Calif.), Wen-Jui Ray Chia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rongwei Jason Xuan (Fremont, Calif.), Jian James Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Aditi Ray (Folsom, Calif.) and Honggang Yu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure pertain to a device with an elongated body having a distal end. The distal end may comprise a port that permits discharge of a laser energy towards a tissue from an optical fiber located in the distal end. An exterior surfac...