US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 15 for "Implantable medical device adaptable to irregular anatomy" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,937, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Implantable medical device adaptable to irregular anatomy" was invented by Jerry Wang (Edina, Minn.), Joshua Mark Inouye (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and James M. Anderson (Corcoran, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device such as but not limited to a left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) device includes an expandable frame that is movable between a collapsed configuration for delivery and an expanded configuration for deployment. The expandable frame may include a plurality of frame members that are biased into the expa...