US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 15 for "Air/water connector to prevent water leaking" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,795, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Air/water connector to prevent water leaking" was invented by Ryan V. Wales (Northborough, Mass.), John B. Golden (Norton, Mass.), Jeff Gray (Sudbury, Mass.) and Scott E. Brechbiel (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for controlling leaks from a tubing set of an endoscope system during equipment changeouts. An illustrative connector arranged and configured to couple a tube set to an endoscope may comprise a housing comprising a first fluid inlet, a second fluid inlet, a first fluid outlet in selective fluid comm...