ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,369, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Multi-armed polyoxazolines and compositions, systems and methods pertaining to the same" was invented by Joseph T. Delaney Jr. (Minneapolis), Paul V. Grosso (Maple Grove, Minn.), John Kummailil (Sherborn, Mass.), Tatyana Dyndikova (Minneapolis) and Carey Rehder (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the present disclosure pertains to a multi-arm polymer comprising a core and a plurality of polyoxazoline segments (or arms) having a first end that is covalently attached to the core and a second end comprisin...