US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 24 for "Devices, systems, and methods for tissue traction" (Costa Rican, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,080, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for tissue traction" was invented by Yeison Calvo (San Ramon, Costa Rica), Barry Weitzner (Acton, Mass.), Jimena Cespedes Berrocal (Alajuela, Costa Rica), Juan Pablo Ortiz Garcia (San Isidro, Costa Rica), Rosa Angelica Perez Chaves (Heredia, Costa Rica), Christian Araya Camacho (Alajuela, Costa Rica) and Julian Fuentes Castro (Cartago, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue traction device having a target-tissue-engaging segment and more than one traction-tissue-engaging segment spaced apart from the ...