US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on May 13 for "Radiopaque multi-armed polymers and compositions, systems and methods pertaining to the same" (Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,335, issued on May 13, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Radiopaque multi-armed polymers and compositions, systems and methods pertaining to the same" was invented by Joseph T. Delaney Jr. (Minneapolis), Kolbein K. Kolste (Boxboro, Mass.) and Tatyana Dyndikova (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the present disclosure pertains to a polymer that comprises a plurality of polymeric arms, wherein a first portion of the polymeric arms each comprises a reactive end group and wherein a second portion of the polymeric arms each comprises a radiopaque aromatic moiety comprising a mon...