US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 23 for "Device, systems, and methods for grasping tissue at a muscular level" (Costa Rican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,621, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Device, systems, and methods for grasping tissue at a muscular level" was invented by Esteban S. Montenegro (Heredia, Costa Rica), Jairo M. Vargas Mena (Heredia, Costa Rica) and Gonzalo J. Saenz Villalobos (Alajuela, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue repair device, system, and method for grasping tissue, such as to repair the tissue (e.g., a defect in tissue), by anchoring a tissue-penetrating arm along a first location along the tissue, moving the anchored tissue-penetrating arm to a second location along the tissue, and g...