US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation on June 2 for "Lead introducers and systems and methods including the lead introducers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,558, issued on June 2, was assigned to Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corp. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Lead introducers and systems and methods including the lead introducers" was invented by Eric Koji Nagaoka (Santa Clarita, Calif.) and Ranjan Krishna Mukhari Nageri (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lead introducer includes a combined needle/sheath having a splittable sheath configured to split along the length of the splittable sheath, a splittable hub coupled to the proximal end region of the splittable sheath and configured to split into a first portion and a second portion, a needle defining a channel extending alon...