US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 30 for "Methods and systems for performing submucosal medical procedures" (Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,917, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Methods and systems for performing submucosal medical procedures" was invented by Vladimir Mitelberg (Austin, Texas), Brett E. Naglreiter (Hollywood, Fla.) and Donald K. Jones (Dripping Springs, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instruments, systems and methods are provided for performing submucosal medical procedures in a desired area of the digestive tract using endoscopy. Instruments include a safe access needle injection instrument, a submucosal tunneling instrument, a submucosal dissection instrument, a mucosal resection device. Sys...