Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Johns Hopkins University

Ryan V Wales

Scott E Brechbiel

Paul J Smith

Sean P Fleury

Paul Smith

Jeff Gray

Danny S Lee

Jialiang Wang

John Peter Unger

Samuel Raybin

Kevin L Bagley

Niklas Andersson

Laura Elizabeth Christakis

Alexander Joseph Burnham

Danny Shu-Huan Lee

Christopher R Deuel

Stan Robert Gilbert

Christopher K Oto

Pankaj Jay Pasricha

Peter L Dayton

Jon B Taylor

Colby Harris

Kevin James McElwee

Nathan T Cummings

Ramon Estevez

Sritam Parashar Rout

Brian J Hanson

Amir Hossein Soltanianzadeh

Talha Riaz

Marc Chelala

Maria F Torres

Gregory Hurley

Nicholas J Mazzola

Kyle R Cowdrick

David M Gullotti

Ryan Pollock

Tracy Andreotti

John B Golden

Kyle P Moore

Shawn Ryan

Naroun Suon

Shaun Dennis Comee

Gary Jordan

Joseph W King

John Thomas Favreau

Steven R Larsen

Brian Gaffney

Peter J Shank

Daniel H VanCamp

Elias A Khoury

Ismail Guler

Douglas Melanson

Youseph Yazdi

Conor Reid

Jessica Louise Powers

Nestor Allan Ibanez

Tara A Jarobski

Rachael Campion

Naroun Soun

Morgan Zhu

Kira Sullivan

Nora Belkhayat

Irina Pyataeva

Wade R Strelow

Danny Shu-huan Lee

Richard Mansfield

Demetri Monovoukas

Robert B Devries

John Allen Hingston

Michael E Zupkofska

Ray Hewenson Tong

Nicholas Lee Tassoni

George L Coles

Nicholas James Durr

Kevin Windheuser

Mingxiang Xu

Anthony F Tassoni, Jr

Gregory R Lee

Jose A Meregotte

Laura E Richards

Robert B DeVries

Serena Scott

Rachel M Williams

Caroline Riedel

Mary Ann Cornell

Kathryn Venuto

Austin G Johnson

Jose Garcia-Cordero

Routha Sim

Anne Sluti

Kevin James McELWEE

Kathleen M Laliberte

Juan C Rodriguez Salazar

Katie Olmeda

Caleb A Valdes

Rossana Zotti

Prashanth Somasundaram

Julianne Grainger

A suture device for use in combination with a delivery system including a lumen extending through the delivery system includes a needle usable to carry a suture, a distal shuttle configured to releasably secure the needle, a sleeve disposable over the distal shuttle, the distal shuttle movable relative to the sleeve between a locked position in which the needle is locked to the distal shuttle and an unlocked position in which the needle is releasable from the distal shuttle. The suture device includes a distal assembly including an elongate tool guide movable between a deployment configuration in which the elongate tool guide is substantially parallel with the distal assembly and a working configuration in which the elongate tool guide curves away from the distal assembly.

Suture based closure device for use with endoscope

The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices and establishing fluid communication between body lumens. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices and methods for placing the muscularis layers of first and second body lumens in contact to establish a long term or permanent open flow or access passage therebetween.

Systems and methods for creating permanent drainage fistula

An endoscopic tissue fastening device may include a body having a first portion and a second portion arranged alongside the first portion. The second portion may extend distally of the first portion and may terminate in a distal end face of the body. The device may further include a tissue fastening assembly having a fastening head with a proximal end and a distal end. The fastening head may be deflectable at a location between the proximal end and the distal end of the fastening head. The tissue fastening assembly may be received within a lumen of the body. Further, the body may be moveable between an unarticulated configuration and an articulated configuration. In the articulated configuration, a central longitudinal axis of the second portion of the body may be substantially parallel with a central longitudinal axis of the tissue fastening assembly.

Systems, devices, and related methods for fastening tissue

A medical device may include a shaft extending from a proximal end toward a distal end, the shaft including a lumen extending from the proximal end toward the distal end; a first stapling head at the distal end, the first stapling head configured to contain one or more staples, and the first stapling head having a block disposed within, and movable relative to, the first stapling head; a second stapling head at the distal end; and a pushing element extending through the lumen, the pushing element being movable from a first position to a second position, wherein transition of the pushing element from the first position to the second position urges the block to move toward second stapling head to deploy the one or more staples.

Medical devices for applying a cinch to one or more suture and cutting the suture, and methods for making and using such devices are disclosed. An example medical device may include an elongated shaft, a connection sleeve, a cinch sleeve coupled to the connection sleeve, and a cinch member. An elongated inner shaft may extend through and be longitudinally movable within the elongated shaft, connection sleeve, cinch sleeve, and cinch member.

Suture cinching and cutting device

The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices and establishing access to body passageways. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices, systems and methods to facilitate entry of an endoscopic accessory tool into and/or through patient-specific anatomies. For example, the devices, systems and methods of the present disclosure may transmit mechanical motion to the distal end of an endoscopic accessory tool to facilitate atraumatic access to tortuous or otherwise restricted anatomies.

Devices, systems and methods for transmitting motion to the distal tip of an endoscopic accessory tool

A fastening device may comprise a flexible longitudinal body including a central longitudinal axis and a distal end; an anvil extending distally from the distal end of longitudinal body; and a distal body extending distally from the distal end of the longitudinal body. The distal body may be configured to removably receive a cartridge having a plurality of fasteners. At least one of the anvil and the distal body may be flexible and may have a first configuration with a distal portion of the at least one of the anvil and the distal body extending radially outward from the central longitudinal axis and a second configuration with the distal portion closer to the central longitudinal axis than in the first configuration.

A medical device comprising a shaft, a handle including a proximal portion and a distal portion, wherein the distal portion is fixed to a proximal portion of the shaft, and a channel extending from the handle into the shaft, wherein the channel includes a proximal channel and a distal channel, the proximal channel being rotatable relative to the distal channel and aligned with the distal channel throughout rotation of the proximal channel, wherein the proximal portion includes the proximal channel and the distal portion includes the distal channel, wherein the distal portion is rotatable relative to the proximal portion of the handle, and the shaft is configured to rotate with the distal portion of the handle.

Rotatable medical device

Medical devices and methods of using medical devices are disclosed. An example tissue retraction device includes a first engagement member having a first end and a second end, a second engagement member having a first end and a second end, a first elastic member attached to the second end of the first engagement member, and a first alignment member having a first end, a second end and a lumen extending therethrough. Further, the tissue retraction device has a first length, the first alignment member has a second length, the first elastic member extends within the lumen of the first alignment member and the second length of the first alignment member is less than or equal to the first length of the tissue retraction device.

Tissue retraction device and delivery system

Various embodiments are generally directed to devices, systems, and methods for controlling the flow of fluids in endoscopic systems, such as endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) endoscopes. Some embodiments are particularly directed to valve sets and/or valve interface mechanisms for controlling air, water, and/or suction flow through a valve well for an endoscopic system. Several embodiments are directed to user interface mechanisms and techniques for enabling an operator to interact with and control endoscope valves. Many embodiments are directed to mechanisms and techniques for translating interface input motion into valve control motions. In one or more embodiments, the valve sets and/or valve interface mechanisms may be disposable.

Interface and motion translation devices, systems, and methods for endoscope valves

A system for tracking a medical device, the system comprising a support having a channel extending therethrough, the channel being defined circumferentially by a surface, at least one encoder configured to track movement of a medical device through the channel, and one or more processors configured to receive input from the at least one encoder, receive an instruction from a user to store a zero position of the medical device relative to the channel, determine relative movement of the medical device from the zero position, and communicate the relative movement of the medical device from the zero position.

Endoscopic positioning encoder

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for enhanced navigation and visualization of body passages. In particular, the systems and methods of the present disclosure provide enhanced navigation through the pulmonary peripheries, and enhanced visualization within larger pulmonary passages.

Systems and methods for body passage navigation and visualization

The present disclosure pertains to medical devices. More particularly, the present disclosure pertains to tissue clip devices and related systems and methods. In an embodiment, a tissue clip may include a grasper including jaws at a first end, and a spring portion at a second end, and a longitudinal axis extending along a length of the grasper from the first end to the second end, wherein the spring portion is configured to bias the jaws toward each other. A wedge may be slidably disposed between the jaws such that an apex of the wedge is oriented toward the spring portion. A filament may be coupled to the wedge at a first end of the filament and may extend through a channel of the spring portion of the grasper to a second end of the filament.

Tissue clip devices, systems, and traction methods

The present disclosure pertains to medical devices. More particularly, the present disclosure pertains to tissue retraction devices and related delivery systems and methods.

Devices and methods for tissue retraction

Medical devices and methods of using medical devices are disclosed. An example tissue retraction device includes a first tissue engagement member coupled to an elastic member by a coupling assembly. The coupling assembly including a first coupler body having a first end region and a first compression member. Further, the first end region of the first coupler body is configured to extend into a portion of a lumen of the elastic member and the compression member is designed to compress the elastic member onto the first coupler body such that the elastic member is fixedly engaged with the coupler body.

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Northborough, MA, United States of America

Ryan V Wales