ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,255, issued on March 17, was assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).
"Adjustable seal" was invented by Deepak Kumar Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is adapted to seal around elongate shafts of varying diameter therethrough. The medical device includes a plurality of elastomeric sealing members together defining a variable dimension aperture, a chuck body, and a chuck ring that is rotatably secured relative to the chuck body. The medical device is adapted such that rotating the chuck ring in a first direction causes the plurality of elastomeric sealing members ...