ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,124, issued on April 7, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Medical systems and related methods" was invented by Peter J. Pereira (Mendon, Mass.), Chad Schneider (Owings Mills, Md.), Brandon W. Craft (Edgewater, Md.), Kimberly Degraaf (Holden, Mass.), Jozef Slanda (Milford, Mass.), James M. Goddard (Pepperell, Mass.) and Christopher P. Gauvin (South Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying material to be removed from a patient may use an imaging device, a display, a control unit, and an insertion device. The method may include obtaining a first set of image data from the ...