US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on June 2 for "Tissue retraction devices, systems, and methods" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,517, issued on June 2, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Tissue retraction devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Danny Lee (Cambridge, Mass.), John Unger (Wrentham, Mass.), Anne Sluti (Watertown, Mass.), Kathleen M. Laliberte (Littleton, Mass.), Talha Riaz (Framingham, Mass.), Tracy Andreotti (Milford, Mass.), Routha Sim (Lowell, Mass.), Juan C. Rodriguez Salazar (Watertown, Mass.), Caroline Riedel (Westford, Mass.), Jose L. Garcia-Cordero (Ocala, Fla.) and Ryan V. Wales (Northborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devic...