US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Oct. 14 for "Devices, systems, and methods for torque amplification in medical systems" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,211, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for torque amplification in medical systems" was invented by Aiden Flanagan (County Galway, Ireland), Stephen McCooey (Dundalk, Ireland) and Martin Lawrence Fawdry (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device may include a main shaft extending from a proximal end to a distal end; an actuator at a proximal portion of the medical device; an end effector positioned at a distal end of the main shaft and comprising a first jaw and a second jaw; a motor; and a torque amplification system. The torque...