US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device, Boston Scientific Scimed on Jan. 27 for "Repositionable tissue capture system, device and method" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,151, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland) and Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Repositionable tissue capture system, device and method" was invented by Deepak Kumar Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India), Sharath Kumar G (Kanakapura, India) and Barry Weitzner (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a capture assembly, a hollow member, a tube, and a control member. The assembly includes a capture sleeve received on a distal end of an insertion device and a flange mounted on the insertion device proximal of the sleeve. The hollow member, the tube, a...