ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,119, issued on May 26, was assigned to Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).
"Radiofrequency perforation apparatus" was invented by Gareth Davies (Toronto) and John Paul Urbanski (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical devices are disclosed having improved visualization of a portion of the medical device insertable into a patient's body while minimizing obstruction of fluid flow through a lumen of the device and while minimizing an increase in the outer diameter of the device attributable to the feature providing improved visualization. The device can include, for example, an imaging marker distal to lumen o...