Cornell University

Medos International Sarl

Lumendi Ltd.

Ashley Lauren Whitney

Tuan Anh Nguyen

Jeremy A Van Hill

Sameer Sharma

Matthew DeNardo

Gabriel Greeley

Rahul Sathe

Christopher Dillon

John Frederick Cornhill

Anthony Z Assal

Michael J O'Neil

Joern Richter

Daniel Thommen

Joseph Peterson

Salman Chegini

Thomas E Martin

Jeffrey Milsom

Serge Cyril Roux

Gabriel Emmett Greeley

Matthew Brian De Nardo

Stephen C Evans

Timothy Robinson

John Divincenzo

Richard Yazbeck

Audrey R Bell

Alan Fortunate

Brian David Chouinard

William Rebh

Phal Kun Chan

John DiVincenzo

Jeffery Milsom

John DeVincenzo

Matthew Denardo

Phala Chan

Michael J O'NEIL

A flexible auger design for low-torque transmitting drive shafts, which allows effective tissue material transport through curved, flexible tubes and channels. A hollow auger has a hollow center, so that the helical member hugs the inner wall of the tube and material is transported along the center axis and the inner wall of the tube. The hollow flexible auger allows for transportation of material from an operative location in the patient (material removal) as well as to operative location in the patient (material delivery).

Flexible transport auger

Apparatus comprising: a sleeve adapted to be slid over the exterior of an endoscope; a proximal balloon secured to the sleeve; an inflation/deflation tube carried by the sleeve and in fluid communication with the interior of the proximal balloon; a push tube slidably mounted to the sleeve; and a distal balloon secured to the distal end of the push tube, the interior of the distal balloon being in fluid communication with the push tube, wherein the distal balloon is capable of assuming a deflated condition and an inflated condition, and further wherein when the distal balloon is in its deflated condition, an axial opening extends therethrough, the axial opening being sized to receive the endoscope therein, and when the distal balloon is in its inflated condition, the axial opening is closed down.

Method and apparatus for manipulating the side wall of a body lumen or body cavity so as to provide increased visualization of the same and/or increased access to the same, and/or for stabilizing instruments relative to the same

Apparatus comprising: a sleeve adapted to be slid over the exterior of an endoscope; an aft balloon secured to the sleeve; an inflation/deflation tube carried by the sleeve and in fluid communication with the interior of the aft balloon; a pair of hollow push tubes slidably mounted to the sleeve, the pair of hollow push tubes being connected to one another at their distal ends with a raised push tube bridge, the raised push tube bridge being configured to nest an endoscope therein; and a fore balloon secured to the distal ends of the pair of hollow push tubes, the interior of the fore balloon being in fluid communication with the interiors of the pair of hollow push tubes, wherein the fore balloon is capable of assuming a deflated condition and an inflated condition, and further wherein (i) when the fore balloon is in its deflated condition, an axial opening extends therethrough, the axial opening being sized to receive the endoscope therein, and (ii) when the fore balloon is in its inflated condition, the axial opening is closed down.

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

Ashley Lauren Whitney