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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2024
Neptune Medical Inc., Burlingame, CA (US);
Alexander Q. Tilson, Burlingame, CA (US);
Garrett J. Gomes, Pleasant Hill, CA (US);
Neptune Medical Inc., Burlingame, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods of enhancing visualization of a body lumen. A device including a capsule endoscope and a plurality of struts attached thereto may be positioned into the body lumen. The plurality of struts of the device may self-expand within the body lumen from a constrained configuration to an expanded configuration in which the plurality of struts extend both radially and axially away from a camera lens of the capsule endoscope so as to form a frame around the camera lens in the expanded configuration. The camera lens may image through the frame into the body lumen. At least a portion of the frame or a material constraining the struts of the frame may dissolve to allow passage of the device from the body lumen.