US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for creating permanent drainage fistula" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,733, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for creating permanent drainage fistula" was invented by Jeff Gray (Sudbury, Mass.), Ryan V. Wales (Northborough, Mass.), Scott E. Brechbiel (Burlington, Mass.), Laura E. Christakis (Framingham, Mass.), Paul Smith (Smithfield, R.I.) and Sean Fleury (Princeton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices and establishing fluid communication between body lumens. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices and methods for placing the muscularis lay...