ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,703, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Boston Scientific Medical Device Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Medical systems, devices, and related methods thereof" was invented by Deepak Kumar Sharma (Muzaffarnagar, India), Rajivkumar Singh (Thane, India), Sharath Kumar G (Kanakapura, India) and Paul Smith (Smithfield, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device, comprising a handle, wherein the handle includes a movable body and a stationary body; an end cap, the end cap comprising an inner cap and an outer cap, wherein the inner cap is coupled to the movable body by a control eleme...