US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device on March 24 for "Needle and assembly of needle, guidewire, and/or catheter insert" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,437, issued on March 24, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Needle and assembly of needle, guidewire, and/or catheter insert" was invented by John Paul Urbanski (Toronto), Berna Erdemir (North York, Canada) and Ferryl Alley (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needle includes a hub and an elongate body. The elongate body has a proximal portion joined to the hub and defining a proximal end, a distal portion opposite the proximal portion and defining a distal end, and an intermediate portion between the proximal portion and the distal portion and having a first end adjacent the pr...