US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Oct. 27 for "Medical systems, devices, and related methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,524, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Medical systems, devices, and related methods" was invented by Robb M. Gavalis (Westborough, Mass.), Jessica L. Powers (Boston), Shannon S. Kenwood (Milford, Mass.) and Gregory T. Hughes (Hanson, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a method for removing material from a body lumen is disclosed. The method may include positioning a first medical device within the body lumen; and expanding an expandable member at a distal portion of the first medical device from a retracted state to an expanded state. The expandable mem...