US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on March 31 for "Position tracking device assemblies and components" (Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,958, issued on March 31, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Position tracking device assemblies and components" was invented by Andrew Graveley (Shoreview, Minn.), Daniel Foster (Lino Lakes, Minn.) and George Duval (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly of a medical device may comprise an elevator configured to raise and lower in order to adjust an orientation of an instrument inserted through a working channel of the medical device. The elevator may include a magnet. The assembly also may include a sensing element configured to measure a magnetic field of the magnet and to outpu...