ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,407, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Actuators for medical devices and related systems and methods" was invented by Aditya Dhanotiya (Indore, India), Nabarun Bhowmick (Kolkata, India), James Weldon (Newton, Mass.) and Shrikant Vasant Raut (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example, a handle assembly for a medical device may comprise a handle body, and a first knob for controlling movement of a distal portion of the medical device, the first knob may comprise a first rotational axis, and a seco...