US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for real-time biopsy needle and target tissue visualization" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,900, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for real-time biopsy needle and target tissue visualization" was invented by Austin G. Johnson (Hudson, Mass.) and Sean Fleury (Minneapolis, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of endoscopy. In particular, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for real-time visualization of a target tissue, and which allows the location/orientation of the biopsy needle to be determined prior to its first actuation."

The patent was filed on July 22, 2020, under Application No. 1...