US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device on Aug. 26 for "System of medical devices and method for pericardial puncture" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,785, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"System of medical devices and method for pericardial puncture" was invented by Brock Miller (Toronto), Matthew Gravett (Milton, Canada), Kai-Lon Fok (Mississauga, Canada) and Rund Abou-Marie (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for pericardial puncture includes a medical device having an elongate shaft extending between a proximal end and a distal end, and having a distally facing electrode at the distal end of the shaft. An impedance meter is electrically connectable with the electrode for measuring an impedance ...