ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,983, issued on June 23, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Medical tubular assembly" was invented by John Paul Urbanski (Toronto) and Kaylie Lau (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elongated medical tubular assembly is configured to improve, at least in part, transmission of a signal from the signal-transmitting device, received, at least in part, within the elongated medical tubular assembly, toward the signal-transceiving device of the medical-imaging system. The elongated medical tubular assembly defines a lumen extending from a distal tip toward a proximal end of the elongated medical...