US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 21 for "Devices, systems, and methods for occluding an anatomical passage" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,655, issued on July 21, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for occluding an anatomical passage" was invented by Darren Gerard Curran (Galway, Ireland), David Collins (Galway, Ireland), Paul E. Tierney (Galway, Ireland), Brian Pierce Bolger (Kilkenny, Ireland), John O'Driscoll (Galway, Ireland) and Douglas Melanson (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occlusion device having a lumen defined therethrough and a saddle narrower than saddles of prior occlusion devices or stents to allow provision of an occlusion element with respect to a portion of the saddle to o...