ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,101, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Hemostasis clip" was invented by Gonzalo Jose Saenz Villalobos (Heredia, Costa Rica), Kevin Mcevilly (Galway, Ireland), Alejandro Brenes Acosta (San Jose, Costa Rica), Rafael Berenzon (La Union, Costa Rica) and Viviana Artavia Salas (Heredia, Costa Rica).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for treating tissue includes a capsule defining a channel extending therethrough and clip arms. Each of the arms includes a proximal part releasably coupled to a distal part, a proximal portion of the distal part configured to be received within the chan...