US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Nov. 3 for "Systems, devices, and methods for fiber optical data transmission in medical devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,393, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for fiber optical data transmission in medical devices" was invented by Kirsten Viering (Newton, Mass.), Louis J. Barbato (Franklin, Mass.) and Eric F. Brown (Wilmington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a shaft having a distal end and a proximal end, an image sensor at the distal end of the shaft, a distal conversion device at the distal end and in communication with the image sensor, a proximal photoreceiver, and an optical fiber extending between the distal conversion device and the...