US Patent Issued to Canon U.S.A. on March 25 for "Medical apparatus with reflow trapped anchors and method of use thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,400, issued on March 25, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Medical apparatus with reflow trapped anchors and method of use thereof" was invented by Takahisa Kato (Brookline, Mass.), Matthew Michael Kincaid (Medford, Mass.) and Showna Hsu-Hwa Chang (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An articulated medical device having a hollow core, capable of large degrees of maneuverability through small spaces of a patient to reach a target with minimal invasiveness, and once the medical device has reached the target, allowing a medical tool to be guided through the hollow chamber for facilitating medical procedur...