ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,654, issued on May 20, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Endoscopic applicator with reagent ball cutter" was invented by Joseph W. King (Franklin, Mass.), Gonzalo Jose Saenz Villalobos (Alajuela, Costa Rica), John T. Favreau (Charlton, Mass.) and Lauren S. Lydecker (Millbury, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical dispensing device which includes a catheter, an applicator tip at a distal end of the catheter, the catheter and the applicator tip defining a lumen having a longitudinal axis and a distal opening, a plunger in the lumen and movable along the longitudinal axis, and a plurality of e...