ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,205, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).
"Medical articulation devices and methods of using the same" was invented by Deepak Kumar Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India) and Sharath Kumar G (Kanakapura, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device that includes a handle, an actuator movably coupled to the handle, a shaft extending distally from the handle, and a sheath including a distal end disposed within the shaft and a proximal end disposed within the handle. The sheath includes a plurality of branches secured to one another at the distal end and separated from one another a...