ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,311, issued on March 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Medical device adaptors and associated methods" was invented by Deepak Kumar Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device adaptor may comprise a distal portion, including a cap configured to be removably affixed to a distal end of a medical device and a channel extending through a lumen of the cap. The channel may be in fluid communication with a working channel of the medical device upon removably affixing the cap to the distal end of the medical device. The adaptor may further comprise a proximal portion...