US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 7 for "Suction valve for medical devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,759, issued on July 7, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Suction valve for medical devices" was invented by Nathan Thomas Cummings (Worcester, Mass.) and Carolina Villarreal (Hopedale, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Suction valves for selectively fluidly coupling a suction pump with a working channel. An illustrative suction valve may comprise an elongate shaft having a longitudinal axis and extending from a first end to a second end, at least one aperture extending through a sidewall of the elongate shaft, a rigid base extending radially outward from an outer surface of the elongate shaft, and...