US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed, Boston Scientific Medical Device on Aug. 25 for "Medical devices and related methods for delivering energy and/or fluid" (Costa Rican, American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,496, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Medical devices and related methods for delivering energy and/or fluid" was invented by Julian Fuentes Castro (La Union, Costa Rica), Juan Pablo Ortiz Garcia (Heredia, Costa Rica), Kensuke Hayashi (Newton, Mass.) and Takashi Toyonaga (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device for delivering energy and/or fluid includes a handle, a shaft extending distally from the handle, a fluid port configured to deliver fluid through at least a portion of the shaft, and an end ef...