US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 30 for "Hemostasis clip two stage deployment mechanism to eliminate shed parts" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,888, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Hemostasis clip two stage deployment mechanism to eliminate shed parts" was invented by Laurie A. Lehtinen (Boylston, Mass.), Joseph W. King (Franklin, Mass.) and Daniel Congdon (Hudson, 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, proximal ends of which are slidably received within the channel to move the clip arms between an open configuration and a closed configuration. Each of the pair of clip arms includes an elongated opening extending through the proximal ends the...