US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Oct. 7 for "Hemostasis clip reduced length deployment mechanism" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,593, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Hemostasis clip reduced length deployment mechanism" was invented by Daniel Congdon (Hudson, Mass.), Laurie A. Lehtinen (Boylston, Mass.) and Alex Roberts (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clipping device includes a clip including a capsule and a pair of clip arms movable between an open configuration and a closed configuration. A tension member includes a distal portion and a proximal portion, a pair of protrusions extending from opposing surfaces of the proximal portion to be received within openings extending through proxi...