US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on April 7 for "Medical systems, devices, and related methods" (Massachusetts, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,117, issued on April 7, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Medical systems, devices, and related methods" was invented by Allyn Jensrud (Milford, Mass.), Mingxiang Xu (Wayland, Mass.) and Matthew Jones (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a shaft including a distal end including a passive electrode that defines a central opening extending through the passive electrode, and an active electrode within the central opening. The active electrode is movable between at least an extended position in which the active electrode does not contact the passive electrode, and a...