US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 14 for "Stone measurement systems and methods related thereto" (Massachusetts, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,257, issued on July 14, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Stone measurement systems and methods related thereto" was invented by Kian S. Lim (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Longquan Chen (Lexington, Mass.) and Niraj Prasad Rauniyar (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical systems are described, including a medical system that includes a scope including a handle and a shaft defining a channel having a distal opening, a processor, at least one laser source, a first laser fiber, and a second laser fiber, wherein each of the first laser fiber and the second laser fiber is coupled to the at least one...