ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,744, issued on June 2, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Endoscopic medical device for dispensing materials and method of use" was invented by Andrew Pic (Northboro, Mass.), Matthew LaPlaca (Franklin, Mass.), Jennifer Golden (Norton, Mass.) and Shawn Ryan (Littleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device including an application device with a first fluid path and a container movably attached to the application device. The container and the application device have a second fluid path therethrough, the container includes an inner chamber that is intermediate proximal and distal portions...