US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed, Boston Scientific Medical Device on June 23 for "Repositionable tissue-engagement member and associated systems and methods" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,986, issued on June 23, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Repositionable tissue-engagement member and associated systems and methods" was invented by Kevin L. Bagley (Natick, Mass.), Deepak Kumar Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India), Shrikant Vasant Raut (Mumbai, India), James J. Scutti (Norwell, Mass.), Agrim Mishra (New Delhi) and Nabarun Bhowmick (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue-engagement member having a pair of jaws movable between a closed configuration and an open configuration, an actuator movable to shift the jaws b...