US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Oct. 14 for "Systems, devices, and related methods for fastening tissue" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,210, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Systems, devices, and related methods for fastening tissue" was invented by Nora Belkhayat (Framingham, Mass.), Ryan V. Wales (Northborough, Mass.), Paul Smith (Smithfield, R.I.), Conor Reid (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jeff Gray (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device may include a shaft extending from a proximal end toward a distal end, the shaft including a lumen extending from the proximal end toward the distal end; a first stapling head at the distal end, the first stapling head configured to contain one or more staples...