US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on May 6 for "Adjustable stiffness medical devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,238, issued on May 6, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Adjustable stiffness medical devices" was invented by James Weldon (Newton, Mass.) and Scott E. Brechbiel (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device may include: a shaft configured to be inserted into a body lumen of a subject; a handle at a proximal end of the shaft, the handle including an adjustment mechanism configured to be transitioned from a first configuration, in which the shaft has a first stiffness, to a second configuration, in which the shaft has a second stiffness. The first stiffness may be different from the s...