US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 23 for "Devices, systems, methods, and designs for medical cleaning valves" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,046, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices, systems, methods, and designs for medical cleaning valves" was invented by Colby Harris (Weston, Mass.), Barry Weitzner (Acton, Mass.), Carolina Villarreal (Hopedale, Mass.) and Brian Luis (Worcester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical cleaning valve (or cleaning valve) may be configured to provide cleaning functionality to air and water channels of an endoscope. One or more embodiments described herein may include cleaning valves with features and/or components that facilitate differentiating them from procedural valve...