ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,780, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Device tip" was invented by Andrew Calabrese (Lancaster, Mass.), Mark D. Wood (Sterling, Mass.), Gregory Thomas Hughes (Hanson, Mass.) and Brian Gaffney (Rutland, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect of the present disclosure, a device may include a shaft having a distal end, and a tip at the distal end of the shaft. The tip may include an opening defined by a surface of the tip. An instrument inserted through the shaft may extend distally out of the opening. The device also may include an elevator for engaging the instrument. T...