US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device on March 31 for "Electrosurgical device with automatic shut-off" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,947, issued on March 31, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Electrosurgical device with automatic shut-off" was invented by Matthew DiCicco (Toronto), Gareth Davies (Toronto), John Paul Urbanski (Toronto), Eduardo Moriyama (Richmond, Canada), Patrick Ryan (Toronto), Daniel Wing Fai Mok (Mississauga, Canada) and Brandon Tyler (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed for creating a puncture in a tissue. The assembly includes a puncturing device having a distal tip configured to deliver energy to the tissue, creating the puncture. The puncturing devi...