US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Oct. 14 for "Encapsulated components of medical devices, and methods therefor" (Indiana, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,088, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Encapsulated components of medical devices, and methods therefor" was invented by Adam Michael Larouche (Indianapolis), Kirsten Viering (Newton, Mass.), John B. Golden (Norton, Mass.), Scott Kippenbrock (Avon, Ind.), Adam Dills (Bloomington, Ind.) and Seth Charles Schneider (Jeffersonville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distal end portion of a medical device may comprise an image capturing component; a light source; and an encapsulation having inner surfaces contacting and at least partially encompassing the image capturing component ...