Patents Assigned to SciMed
  • Publication number: 20240423460
    Abstract: Medical devices and related methods are described, including a medical device that includes a shaft defining at least one working channel extending from a proximal end of the shaft to a distal end of the shaft along a longitudinal axis and a distal tip coupled to the shaft. The working channel may have a cross-sectional dimension that allows passage of an instrument therethrough. The distal tip may include a first arm and a second arm, the first arm being moveable relative to the second arm between a first configuration that obstructs a portion of the working channel and a second configuration that provides unobstructed access to the working channel, e.g., to allow the instrument to extend distal to the medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jimmy HARRISON, Thomas M. RAGONESE, Camron HAGEMEYER, Mark Allan VOSS, Daniel Joseph GRASSO
  • Publication number: 20240423450
    Abstract: A medical device may comprise a sheath configured to be inserted into a body lumen of a patient. A distal end of the sheath may include an elevator for changing an orientation of a medical device. A handle may include an actuator. The actuator may be operably connected to the elevator. Activation of the actuator may cause movement of the elevator. An engaging portion may, in at least one configuration of the handle, protrude from a surface of a handle body toward the actuator. A force exerted by the user on at least one of the actuator or the engaging portion may cause the handle to transition between (a) a first configuration in which the engaging portion interacts with the actuator to inhibit movement of the actuator relative to the engaging portion and (b) a second configuration in which the actuator is movable relative to the engaging portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan WILDER, Scott E. BRECHBIEL, James WELDON, Bridget STANFORD
  • Patent number: 12171451
    Abstract: A medical device includes an end effector at a distal end of the medical device, an actuator coupled to a proximal end of the end effector, a pivot arm pivotally coupled to the end effector distal of the proximal end of the end effector, where actuation of the actuator pivots the end effector relative to the pivot arm, and a lock on the end effector and the pivot arm, where the lock has a first state permitting the end effector to pivot relative to the pivot arm and a second state restricting the end effector from pivoting relative to the pivot arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc
    Inventor: Christopher R. Deuel
  • Patent number: 12175673
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing electronic images from a medical device comprise receiving an image frame from the medical device, and determining a first color channel and a second color channel in the image frame. A location of an electromagnetic beam halo may be identified by comparing the first color channel and second color channel. Edges of an electromagnetic beam may be determined based on the electromagnetic beam halo, and size metrics of the electromagnetic beam may be determined based on the edges of the electromagnetic beam. A visual indicator on the image frame may be displayed based on the size metrics of the electromagnetic beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Longquan Chen, Mussie Teshome Demisse, Judith Fusman, Aaron Silva, Andrea Cahill, Evan Gyllenhaal
  • Patent number: 12174233
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a shaft insertable into a target area, and an electronic component configured to generate a signal. The electronic component may be on or within the shaft. The electronic device may also include at least one antenna on or within the shaft. The electronic device may also include a receiver operatively coupled to the antenna. The receiver may monitor an electrical characteristic of the antenna to identify an effect of an electromagnetic field on the electrical characteristic of the antenna. The electronic device may also include a processor communicatively coupled to the receiver. At least one of the receiver and the processor may predict an effect of the electromagnetic field on the signal generated by the electronic component, based at least in part on the effect of the electromagnetic field on the electrical characteristic of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell P. Dresher
  • Patent number: 12171994
    Abstract: A bearing assembly is configured to retain an end of an impeller of a blood pump and includes a thrust plate having a distal-facing surface and an impeller bearing surface configured to be disposed adjacent the distal-facing surface such that a gap is defined between the distal-facing surface of the thrust plate and the impeller bearing surface. The impeller bearing surface includes at least one washout blade disposed thereon and configured to facilitate blood flow through the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Travis J. Schauer, Benjamin Breidall, Daniel H. VanCamp
  • Publication number: 20240416025
    Abstract: A medical system that includes a handle, a shaft extending distally from the handle, the shaft including one or more channels extending between the handle and a distal end of the shaft, and a cap assembly coupled to the distal end of the shaft. At least one of the one or more channels includes a working channel. The cap assembly includes an opening that is positioned in alignment with at least one of the one or more channels at the distal end of the shaft. The medical system includes a chamber that extends distally from the opening and a porous body movably disposed within the chamber. The chamber is positioned in alignment with the working channel, and the porous body is configured to transition from a compressed configuration when disposed inside the chamber to an expanded configuration upon extending outwardly from the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul SMITH, Scott BRECHBIEL, Jonathan ROOT, Rahul PRABHU
  • Publication number: 20240416023
    Abstract: A medical device includes a wire or tube, and a porous body coupled a distal portion of the wire or tube. The wire or tube is configured to be transitioned from a first configuration to a second configuration. In the first configuration, the wire or tube is in a flat or straight configuration. In the second configuration, the wire or tube is expanded to a curved or helical shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew MONTAGUE, Louis McNERN
  • Publication number: 20240415516
    Abstract: An example medical device is disclosed. The example medical device includes a tissue clipping device including a bushing having a distal end, a proximal end, and a lumen extending therethrough. A clip including at least a first arm and a second arm is configured to be coupled to the distal end of the bushing, wherein one of the first arm and the second arm includes a tissue grasping member. A control wire having a proximal end and a distal end, is configured to extend through the lumen of the bushing, and a helical member is configured to be coupled to the distal end of the control wire. The control wire is configured to advance the helical member in a distal direction along a longitudinal axis of the tissue clipping device, and retract the helical member in a proximal direction along the longitudinal axis of the tissue clipping device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Gonzalo Jose Saenz Villalobos, Carolina Padilla Castro, Oscar Segura Elizondo, Gabriela Gamboa Bastos
  • Publication number: 20240416022
    Abstract: A medical device including a distal body coupled to a distal end of a vacuum tube. The distal body may be in fluid communication with a lumen of the vacuum tube. The distal body may include a core having a plurality of openings and one or more layers surrounding the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul PRABHU, Paul SMITH, Peter L. DAYTON, Martyn G. FOLAN, Emma HORGAN, Hannah ANDERSEN, Jonathan ROOT
  • Publication number: 20240416024
    Abstract: A medical device may include an implant having a plurality of openings, a tube having a lumen extending therethrough, a body extending from a distal portion of the tube to a proximal portion of the implant, such that the plurality of openings are in fluid communication with the lumen, and a grasping portion configured to be grasped by a second medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul SMITH, Rahul PRABHU, Jonathan ROOT, Scott E. BRECHBIEL
  • Publication number: 20240416026
    Abstract: A medical system that includes a handle, a shaft extending distally from the handle, and a cap assembly coupled to the distal end of the shaft. The shaft includes one or more channels extending between the handle and a distal end of the shaft, and the cap assembly includes an opening that is configured to expose the one or more channels at the distal end of the shaft. The cap assembly includes a chamber that extends distally from the opening. The medical system includes a porous body movably disposed within the chamber. The porous body is configured to transition from a compressed configuration when disposed inside the chamber to an expanded configuration upon extending outwardly from the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul SMITH, Jonathan ROOT, Rahul PRABHU, Scott BRECHBIEL
  • Patent number: 12167879
    Abstract: A cryoablation catheter system comprises a cryoablation catheter having a shaft, a guidewire lumen member and an expandable balloon attached to the shaft and the guidewire lumen member, and an auxiliary device configured for use in combination with the cryoablation catheter, the auxiliary device including a location sensor configured to provide a sensor output indicative of a location of the location sensor within a localization volume responsive to a localization field. A user-accessible relative position indicator is located on one or both of the cryoablation catheter and the auxiliary device and is configured to provide an indication of a relative position of the cryoballoon and the location sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt Edmund Guggenberger, Eugene J. Jung, Jr., Steven A. Kubow
  • Patent number: 12167844
    Abstract: A cinch deployment system includes a delivery system and a releasable cinch including an inner tubular, a compressible gripper having a suture passage, the gripper positioned within the inner tubular housing, and a resilient structure biased to compress the gripper to reduce the size of the suture passage. The resilient structure has a first configuration in which the resilient structure is constrained from applying sufficient compression to the gripper to prevent movement of the gripper on the suture, and a second configuration in which sufficient compression is applied to secure the gripper on the suture. The resilient structure is moved from the first to the second configuration by movement of the retainer moved by the deployment system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir Mitelberg, Donald K. Jones, Brian Szymczak
  • Patent number: 12167889
    Abstract: A balloon for renal nerve modulation is disclosed. The balloon may include a polymer material forming a balloon wall having an outer surface and flexible circuits comprising a base selectively adhered to the exterior surface of the balloon wall. Adhesive is selectively applied to the outer surface of the balloon, to the flexible circuit or to both such that the adhesive is selectively deposited on the at least a portion of the at least two pads or on the at least a portion of the at least two pads and to a portion of the distal spline. The portion of the at least two pads or the portion of the at least two pads and a portion of the distal spline are adhered to the outer surface of the balloon and a remainder of the flexible circuit moves freely with respect to the outer surface of the balloon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Ajay Gupta, Jeffrey S. Lindquist, Paul J. Miller, Cass A. Hanson, Daniel T. Quillin, Hong Cao, Kenneth R. Larson
  • Patent number: 12167841
    Abstract: A biopsy device may include a first jaw having a first distal tip configured to pierce tissue, and a second jaw movable relative to the first jaw between a closed configuration where the first jaw and the second jaw are axially aligned, and an open configuration where the first jaw and the second jaw are offset from one another, the second jaw having a second distal tip proximal to the first distal tip in the closed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Benning, Adam Charles Bechtold, Scott E. Brechbiel, Paul J. Smith, Jeffrey V. Bean, John B. Golden, Barry Weitzner
  • Patent number: 12167835
    Abstract: An endoscopic device includes a flexible shaft extending distally from a handle which, during use remains outside a living body, the shaft comprising a pull wire extending therethrough from the handle and a distal tip rotatably coupled to a distal end of the shaft, the distal tip comprising an imager directed distally from a distal face of the distal tip, the imager including a chip and a lens, a distal end of the pull wire being coupled to the distal tip in combination with an actuation mechanism coupled to a proximal end of the pull wire so that, actuation of the actuation mechanism, pulls the pull wire proximally through the shaft rotating the distal tip relative to the shaft to alter a field of view of the imager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Niraj Prasad Rauniyar, Steven T. Carlson
  • Patent number: 12168106
    Abstract: A medical device may include an introducer sheath, having a distal and a proximal end and a lumen extending from the distal end to the proximal end. The introducer sheath may also include a tab formed at the distal end and extending distal to the lumen, and a frangible portion extending between the distal end and the proximal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael S. H. Chu
  • Publication number: 20240412344
    Abstract: A medical device includes a sensor, a processor, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing imaging instructions. The sensor captures a first raw image into a first frame of raw pixel values including a plurality of first pixel values that represent pixels of a first color and a plurality of second pixel values that represent pixels of a second color. The sensor captures a second raw image into a second frame of raw pixel values including a plurality of third pixel values that represent pixels of the second color and a plurality of fourth pixel values that represent pixels of a third color. The processor convolves the first frame of raw pixel values with the second frame of raw pixel values to generate a first extrapolated frame of pixel values in a YCrCb format and creates a processed image from the first extrapolated frame of pixel values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirsten VIERING, Louis J. BARBATO, George Wilfred DUVAL
  • Publication number: 20240407632
    Abstract: According to one aspect, a device may include a shaft having a distal end and a lumen, the lumen terminating in a distally-facing opening. An instrument may be inserted through the shaft and may extend through the lumen and out of opening. The device may further include an elevator for engaging the instrument. The elevator may include an actuator extending through at least a portion of the shaft; and a body may be coupled to the actuator. A portion of the body may be configured to extend within the lumen and to apply a force to the instrument and move the instrument into contact with a surface of the lumen when the actuator is moved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan WILDER, Scott E. BRECHBIEL, James WELDON