ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,139, issued on April 7, was assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Devices and methods to access a target within the body" was invented by Subodh Morey (Ponda, India), Ashish Jain (Lucknow, India), Timothy Paul Harrah (Cambridge, Mass.) and Rajivkumar Singh (Thane, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices and establishing access to a target within the body, such as placing an access needle into a renal capsule into the human body. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices and methods for performing a percutaneous nephrol...