US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on March 24 for "Controlled constant current systems, devices, components and methods for navigating, positioning, and/or imaging a medical device inside a patient's body" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,486, issued on March 24, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Controlled constant current systems, devices, components and methods for navigating, positioning, and/or imaging a medical device inside a patient's body" was invented by Peter Ruppersberg (Blonay, Switzerland) and Philip Haeusser (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, components, devices and methods for determining locations of or imaging a catheter or other type of medical device inside a patient's body as the catheter or other type of medical device is navigated or positioned therein. In some embodiments, controlle...