US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed, WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE on March 31 for "Trajectory tracking for medical device" (Massachusetts, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,956, issued on March 31, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.) and WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Worcester, Mass.).

"Trajectory tracking for medical device" was invented by Avnish Sachar (Cambridge, Mass.), Anne Gu (Brighton, Mass.), Christopher J. Nycz (Holden, Mass.), Farid Tavakkolmoghaddam (Worcester, Mass.), Hannah R. Baez (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Aditya Ambani (Brighton, Mass.), Paris Marks Saint-Preux (Lowell, Mass.) and James Weldon (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable medical device includes a handle and an elongate shaft extending distally from the handle to a distal tip. A m...