US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 16 for "Medical device control mechanism and methods of use" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,678, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Medical device control mechanism and methods of use" was invented by Steven E. Walak (Natick, Mass.), Bridget Stanford (Reading, Mass.), Priya Vasdev Khanchandani (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Seamus Finbarr O'Shaughnessy (Chelmsford, Mass.), Michael E. Zupkofska (Rockland, Mass.) and Heather Bourassa (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device including a handle including an actuation device, a sheath extending from the handle and having a longitudinal axis, the sheath defining an imaging lumen extending from the handle to a d...