US 11,666,468 B2
Duodenal gastrointestinal devices and delivery mechanisms
Fiona M. Sander, Los Altos Hills, CA (US); John P. Lunsford, San Carlos, CA (US); Stacy Patch, San Jose, CA (US); and Adrian Borlan, Dresden (DE)
Assigned to Endosphere, Inc., Columbus, OH (US)
Appl. No. 15/318,441
Filed by ENDOSPHERE, INC., Columbus, OH (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 19, 2015, PCT No. PCT/US2015/036812
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 13, 2016,
PCT Pub. No. WO2015/196157, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 23, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/014,613, filed on Jun. 19, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2017/0128247 A1, May 11, 2017
Int. Cl. A61F 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 5/0076 (2013.01) [A61F 5/0089 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of loading an unsheathed endoluminal device into a working channel of an endoscope, comprising:
attaching an adaptor to a handle of the endoscope such that a channel of the adaptor is in communication with the working channel of the endoscope;
loading the unsheathed endoluminal device into a lumen of a loading tool from a coupling end of the loading tool to an open end of the loading tool until a proximal end of the device is positioned at the open end;
connecting the coupling end of the loading tool to the adaptor; and
pushing the proximal end of the unsheathed endoluminal device distally along the lumen of the loading tool through the adaptor and into the working channel.