US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device, Boston Scientific Scimed on Aug. 11 for "Tuohy valve tightening port for percutaneous circulatory support device repositioning and axial locking" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,809, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland) and Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Tuohy valve tightening port for percutaneous circulatory support device repositioning and axial locking" was invented by Neeraj Kumar Sharma (New Delhi), Sumit Agrawal (Haryana, India), Rupesh Kumar Pahwa (Gurugram, India) and Qian Liu (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tightening port for use with a hub of an introducer sheath includes a cartridge for reversible engagement with a proximal end of the hub, the cartridge having a proximal end and a distal end and a lumen...