US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 17 for "Detection and pressure relief for percutaneous closure of a vessel" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,655, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Detection and pressure relief for percutaneous closure of a vessel" was invented by Brad Steele (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lucas Buchanan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and William Whealon (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure relief device for use in a percutaneous procedure, the device comprising a tube having a distal opening into an internal lumen and a proximal opening from the internal lumen, a length of the tube sized to position the distal opening near a closed arteriotomy in a vessel and the proximal opening remains external to...