ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,691, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).
"Devices, systems, and methods for providing sealable access to a working channel" was invented by Harchetan Singh Aneja (Amritsar, India), Amit Bharos (Jabalpur, India), Swami Upadhyay (Raipur, India), Boopathi Rajarathnam (Salem, India), Shalin Singh Rawat (Rishikesh, India) and Venkatesh Neelamegam (Tirupur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices such as endoscopes, endoscope assemblies, guide tubes, introducers, and instrument caps for endoscopes, guide tubes, an...