US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed, WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE on Sept. 8 for "Visual interface for motorized endoscope control" (Massachusetts, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,230, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.) and WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (Worcester, Mass.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Steerable medical devices display systems including a handle and an elongate shaft extending distally from the han...