US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device on July 21 for "Elongated medical needle" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,580, issued on July 21, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Elongated medical needle" was invented by Rund Abou Marie (Mississauga, Canada), Brock Miller (Toronto), Christian Balkovec (Burlington, Canada) and Berna Erdemir (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elongated medical needle includes an electrically-insulated elongated body having an outer surface extending between an electrically-insulated distal section and an electrically-insulated proximal section. An insulated electrically-conductive wire is aligned proximately along the outer surface between the electrically-insula...