US Patent Issued to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE on July 14 for "Systems, devices, and related methods for fastening tissue" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,162, issued on July 14, was assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Systems, devices, and related methods for fastening tissue" was invented by Hitendra Purohit (Vadodara, India) and Yogesh Kishor Vikharankar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a medical device including an end effector having an upper arm including: a first plurality of teeth and a second plurality of teeth; a lower arm including a third plurality of teeth, a fourth plurality of teeth, and an anvil. The third plurality of teeth may be on a first lateral side of the anvil and the fourth plurality of teeth may be on a...