US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on June 23 for "Devices, systems, and methods for adjusting the position of an implantable element" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,225, issued on June 23, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for adjusting the position of an implantable element" was invented by Lucas Schneider (Champlin, Minn.) and Gregory Yiu Wah Lee (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployment device engageable with a movable component of a medical device to actuate the movable component with respect to another component of the medical device. The deployment device may be shifted among two or more configurations or stages to permit different movements of the movable component of the medical device. For instance, ...