Patents Assigned to SciMed
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Patent number: 12029477Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, a laser fiber may include an optical fiber. The optical fiber may include a proximal portion. The optical fiber also may include a distal portion having a distal end. The optical fiber may be configured to transmit laser energy from the proximal portion to the distal portion for emission of the laser energy from the distal end. The optical fiber also may include a distal tip surrounding the distal portion to protect the distal portion. The distal tip may include a sheet glass material having a laser energy emitting surface. The laser energy emitting surface may be defined by a chemically-strengthened surface layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Honggang Yu, Rongwei Jason Xuan, Jian Zhang, Charles Alexander Ikan Burdan
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Patent number: 12029890Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed to apparatuses, systems, and methods that may include a magnetic drive system of a blood pump. The magnetic drive system may include an impeller, a drive shaft, a driven magnet assembly, a driving magnet assembly, and a flux enhancer.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Travis J. Schauer, Joseph Alan Kronstedt, Benjamin Breidall, Megan Johnson
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Publication number: 20240215998Abstract: A retrieval device may have a contracted state and an expanded state. The retrieval device may include a sheath and at least three support members. Each of the support members may have a first portion with a first cross-sectional shape and a second portion with a second cross-sectional shape different from the first cross-sectional shape. A proximal end fixed of each of the support members may be coupled to the sheath, and a distal end may be movable relative to the sheath. The retrieval device may further include at least three movable members movable relative to the support members. Each movable member may extend through a lumen of one support member of the at least three support members and through a lumen of a different support member of the at least three support members.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Michael S.H. CHU
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Publication number: 20240215807Abstract: A medical system includes a plurality of tubes configured to be arranged about a periphery of an insertion device. A lumen of each of the plurality of tubes is configured to receive a medical device. Each of the tubes is configured to be coupled to the periphery of the insertion device and is moveable from a collapsed configuration adjacent the periphery of the insertion device to an expanded configuration further radially outward of the periphery of the insertion device as compared to the collapsed configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Kevin L. BAGLEY, Serena SCOTT
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Publication number: 20240215806Abstract: A system for modularly assembling a scope device includes an optical module which has an optical housing and a longitudinal member extending distally therefrom. A distal end of the member includes a camera for visualizing a target area, electric wires and a light source extending from the camera to the optical housing. The system also includes a deflector module coupleable with the optical module. The deflector module includes a deflector housing and a deflector shaft extending distally therefrom. The shaft includes a first channel sized, shaped and configured to receive the member therein and a deflectable portion extending along a distal portion of the shaft. The deflector housing includes an actuator for deflecting the deflectable portion, the optical and deflector housings including corresponding connecting elements to engage one another when the member is inserted through the first channel and the deflector and optical housings are coupled.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Michael S.H. CHU, Sacha TANG, Mayur Kiran PATEL
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Publication number: 20240216185Abstract: A medical device may comprise a handle, wherein the handle includes a movable body and a main body; a cap configured to be coupled to a distal end of a scope; a patch, wherein the patch is moveable relative to the cap; and a petal body. The patch may be removably coupled to the petal body. The medical device may further comprise an actuator body coupling the patch to the moveable body such that movement of the moveable body extends the patch from the cap. The petal body may be configured to transition between a closed configuration in which the patch is retracted, and an open configuration in which the patch is extended radially-outward from a central longitudinal axis of the scope.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicants: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Boston Scientific Medical Device LimitedInventors: Deepak Kumar SHARMA, Sharath Kumar G, Paul SMITH, Barry WEITZNER
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Publication number: 20240215959Abstract: A circuit and design for an analog front end is provided. The AFE includes a number of sub-stages each with multiple optional or alternative pathways to complete the circuit. These pathways can be dynamically set during runtime based on the type of imaging catheter used with the AFE or can be set at manufacturing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed Inc.Inventor: Canute Paul Pereira
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Publication number: 20240218122Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to multi-arm polymers having at least one polymer arm that comprises a reactive radiopaque end moiety. The radiopaque end moiety comprises a radiopaque dicarboxylic acid ester moiety containing one or more radiopaque atoms, wherein one of two ester groups of the radiopaque dicarboxylic acid ester moiety forms a link to the polymer arm, and wherein the other of the two ester groups of the radiopaque dicarboxylic acid ester moiety corresponds to a portion of a reactive electrophilic group. The present disclosure also pertains to methods of forming such multi-arm polymers and to hydrogels formed from such multi-arm polymers and a polyamino compound comprising a plurality of primary amine groups that form crosslinks with the multi-arm polymers. The present disclosure further pertains to methods and systems for forming such hydrogels and methods of treatment using such hydrogels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Yen-Hao Hsu, Cristian Parisi
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Publication number: 20240215809Abstract: In one aspect, the present invention is an articulation joint for use in a low cost medical device such as an endoscope intended for a single use. In one embodiment, the articulation joint comprises a plurality of interconnected segments. In another embodiment, the articulation joint comprises an elongated tubular body. In another aspect, the present invention provides methods of manufacturing an articulation joint for use in a medical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Dennis R. BOULAIS
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Publication number: 20240216041Abstract: A medical device may include a handle having a handle lumen extending therethrough. The medical device further may include a first body shaft including a first body shaft lumen in direct communication with the handle lumen and an RF electrode tip may be positioned at a distal end of the first body shaft. The RF electrode tip may include a lumen extending therethrough and in direct communication with the lumen of the first body shaft. Additionally, an energy delivery wire may be electrically coupled with the RF electrode tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth REEVER, Richard TAH, Jozef SLANDA, Ray ADITI
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Patent number: 12023040Abstract: A clipping device includes a clip including a capsule and a pair of clip arms, proximal ends of which are slidably received within the channel to move the clip arms between an open configuration and a closed configuration. Each of the pair of clip arms includes an elongated opening extending through the proximal ends thereof. A connector includes a central portion received between the proximal ends of the clip arms and a pin extending from the central portion receivable within the opening of each of the clip arms, the connector movable from an unlocked configuration, in which the pin is received within a distal portion of the elongated opening, to a locked configuration, in which the pin is received within a proximal portion of the elongated opening, when a predetermined force is applied thereto.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Laurie A. Lehtinen, Joseph W. King, Daniel Congdon
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Patent number: 12023003Abstract: Various apparatuses to attach a first medical device to a second medical device are described that allow the physician to grasp only a single device while the other device remains securely attached to the one being grasped. The apparatuses, once they are attached to the first medical device, are designed to be easily and quickly attached and detached to a second medical device, normally only requiring the use of one hand. Furthermore, the apparatuses oftentimes include a base that can easily couple and decouple from the portion that is attached to the second medical device so that if the need arises to separately use the second medical device, it can be decoupled from the first medical device without completely removing the apparatus from the second medical device.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2024Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: John B. Golden, John O. McWeeney, Christopher A. Benning, Robert Castoldi, John F. Howard, Brian Intoccia, Gary Kappel, William L. Churchill
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Patent number: 12023004Abstract: An attachment for an imaging device may include a first sheath including a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal end; a second sheath positioned around an exterior of the first sheath; and a connector coupled to the first sheath and configured to be coupled to the imaging device.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Timothy P. Harrah, Christopher L. Oskin, Derrick Lenz, Arpita Banerjee, Pavan Misra, Abhijit Takale, Sandesh Gavade
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Patent number: 12023038Abstract: A device for treating tissue includes a capsule defining a channel extending therethrough and clip arms. Each of the arms includes a proximal part releasably coupled to a distal part, a proximal portion of the distal part configured to be received within the channel of the capsule so that the arms move proximally and distally relative to the capsule between a tissue receiving configuration, in which distal ends of the arms are separated from one another, and a tissue clipping configuration, in which distal ends of the arms are moved toward one another. The proximal portion of each of the arms is configured to release from the corresponding distal part to lock the distal part of each of the arms over a portion of target tissue to be clipped while the proximal parts of the arms are removed from the body.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Gonzalo Jose Saenz Villalobos, Kevin Mcevilly, Alejandro Brenes Acosta, Rafael Berenzon, Viviana Artavia Salas
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Patent number: 12023036Abstract: Example occlusive implants are disclosed. An example occlusive implant includes an expandable framework configured to shift between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration, an occlusive member disposed along at least a portion of the expandable framework and a first collar attached to the expandable framework. The occlusive implant also includes a sensor housing coupled to the first collar, the sensor housing having a first end and a second end opposite the first end and a second collar slidably disposed along an outer surface of the sensor housing. Further, the second collar is coupled to the expandable framework via a spring. The occlusive implant also includes a sensor disposed along the second end of the sensor housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Eric Wedul, Jan-Hung Chen, Harishankar Natesan
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Patent number: 12023002Abstract: Various apparatuses to attach a first medical device to a second medical device are described that allow the physician to grasp only a single device while the other device remains securely attached to the one being grasped. The apparatuses, once they are attached to the first medical device, are designed to be easily and quickly attached and detached to a second medical device, normally only requiring the use of one hand. Furthermore, the apparatuses oftentimes include a base that can easily couple and decouple from the portion that is attached to the second medical device so that if the need arises to separately use the second medical device, it can be decoupled from the first medical device without completely removing the apparatus from the second medical device.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: John B. Golden, John O. McWeeney, Christopher A. Benning, Robert Castoldi, John F. Howard, Brian Intoccia, Gary Kappel, William L. Churchill
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Publication number: 20240213734Abstract: Techniques are provided for controlling an output laser pulse signal of a medical device. A control device defines a time duration of capacitive discharge to a laser device. The time duration corresponds to an intended energy of the output laser pulse signal. The control device generates a plurality of sub-pulse control signals. The sub-pulse control signals define a series of capacitive discharge events of the capacitor bank. The control device modulates one or more of a sub-pulse control signal period or a sub-pulse time duration of the sub-pulse control signals to modify the capacitive discharge of the capacitor bank to the laser device during the time duration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2024Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Jian James ZHANG, Baocheng YANG, Xirong YANG, Hyun Wook KANG, Brian CHENG, Peter BULL, Rongwei Jason XUAN, Thomas C. HASENBERG
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Publication number: 20240207572Abstract: A catheter includes an elongated tubular shaft having a distal end, a proximal end, and a lumen extending therethrough. The elongated tubular shaft includes a polymeric outer layer, a polymeric inner layer, and a braided middle layer. A marker band is positioned adjacent the distal end of the elongated tubular shaft and may surround the middle layer, and a polymeric distal tip is attached to the distal end of the elongated tubular shaft. A distal end of the outer layer terminates proximal to the marker band such that the middle layer includes an exposed region that is exposed from the outer layer between the distal end of the outer layer and a proximal end of the marker band, and the distal tip is formed over the exposed region of the middle layer and the marker band, and extends distally beyond the distal end of the elongated tubular shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicants: Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited, Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Anshul Chabra, Robert M. Wold, Jahnavi Konduru, Gagan Kumar
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Publication number: 20240206707Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure include methods and systems for attaching an articulation section. In an embodiment, a medical instrument includes a first tubular member including a first end. The medical instrument also includes a second tubular member including a first end. The second tubular member includes a plurality of layers including an inner layer and a first layer including a fluorinated material. The inner layer includes a first section disposed under the first layer and a second section extending out from under the first layer. A portion of the first tubular member overlaps and is bonded to at least a portion of the second section of the inner layer of the second tubular member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2024Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Sean P. FLEURY, Gary KAPPEL, Norman C. MAY, Dane T. SEDDON, Mark D. WOOD, Peter L. DAYTON
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Patent number: 12021196Abstract: An insertion device includes an elongate member and a stylet. The elongate member has a proximal end portion, a distal end portion, and defines a lumen therethrough. The stylet has a proximal end portion, a distal end portion, and is slidably coupled to the elongate member. The stylet is configured to move from a first position to a second position with respect to the elongate member. The proximal end portion of the stylet is configured to removably couple a mesh carrier thereto. A portion of the proximal end portion of the stylet is disposed outside of the lumen of the elongate member when the stylet is in its first position and is disposed within the lumen when the stylet is in its second position.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Michael S. H. Chu