US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 8 for "Systems, methods and devices for connecting non-adherent structures" (North Carolina, Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,886, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Systems, methods and devices for connecting non-adherent structures" was invented by Todd Baron (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Peter L. Dayton (Brookline, Mass.), Bryan Bannon (Duxbury, Mass.), Barry Weitzner (Acton, Mass.) and Thomas Desimio (Alpine, Calif.).

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