ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,810, issued on June 9, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Medical device locking assemblies and methods of using the same" was invented by Katrina Hansen (Denver), John B. Golden (Norton, Mass.), Bernadette Durr (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gregory Hughes (Hanson, Mass.), David Callaghan (Ashland, Mass.), Balaji Aswatha Narayana (Bangalore, India), Subodh Morey (Ponda, India) and Junaid Shaikh (Surat, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device that includes a handle, a sheath extending from the handle, and a tool within the sheath and movable relative to the sheath. The handle includes an in...