US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on June 30 for "Techniques for supplying fluid to an endoscope" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,248, issued on June 30, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Techniques for supplying fluid to an endoscope" was invented by Kurt Nicholas Robakiewicz (Upton, Mass.), Pauline Rosemary Limberg (Northborough, Mass.), Brian Luis (Worcester, Mass.), Ryan Vincent William Pollock (Leominster, Mass.) and Ryan V. Wales (Northborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described hereby may separate one or more functionalities/components provided via the tower in order to alleviate the physical barrier created by the umbilicus and reduce the need of the umbilicus to connect to the tower. Fo...