US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Medical Device on May 12 for "Coupling mechanisms for medical devices" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,066, issued on May 12, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Coupling mechanisms for medical devices" was invented by Jeffery Arnett (Gilbert, Ariz.), Linus Hoi Chen Leung (Scarborough, Canada), Moussa Chehade (Toronto) and John Paul Urbanski (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A releasable coupling mechanism for coupling a delivery catheter and a dilator. The delivery catheter comprising a first mating member at the proximal end and the dilator comprising a second mating member at the proximal end. The proximal end of the first mating member comprises a first coupling means for releasably recei...