US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on May 6 for "Tissue retraction bands and methods of use thereof" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,255, issued on May 6, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Tissue retraction bands and methods of use thereof" was invented by Juan C. Rodriguez Salazar (Watertown, Mass.), Jose Garcia-Cordero (Ocala, Fla.), Anne Sluti (Watertown, Mass.), Caroline Riedel (Westford, Mass.) and Talha Riaz (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a tissue traction device for endoscopic procedures such as tissue dissection. For example, a tissue traction device may include first and second att...