US 12,226,079 B2
Endoscopic scope device with a sensor
Peter J. Pereira, Mendon, MA (US); Eric Wong, Framingham, MA (US); William Stanhope, Lunenburg, MA (US); Timothy Paul Harrah, Cambridge, MA (US); Thomas Michael Zappia, Jr., West Boylston, MA (US); Kimberly Degraaf, Holden, MA (US); and Adam Perry Nodiff, Southborough, MA (US)
Assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed by Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed on May 14, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/663,690.
Application 18/663,690 is a continuation of application No. 16/708,039, filed on Dec. 9, 2019, granted, now 12,016,529.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/782,511, filed on Dec. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0293015 A1, Sep. 5, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/005 (2006.01); A61B 1/018 (2006.01); A61B 1/045 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 1/018 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00045 (2013.01); A61B 1/00097 (2022.02); A61B 1/00103 (2013.01); A61B 1/0051 (2013.01); A61B 1/045 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0219 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0247 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0257 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0271 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A scope device, comprising:
a handle configured to remain outside of a body;
a shaft extending from the handle to a distal tip of the shaft and including a working channel extending therethrough, wherein the distal tip includes a camera and a light source, the working channel being open at the distal tip and adjacent to the camera and the light source, the shaft being configured to be inserted through a bodily lumen to a target site; and
a pressure sensor within the distal tip of the shaft and disposed in a housing, the pressure sensor being configured to measure intraluminal pressure relating to the target site and to transmit sensor data relating to the target site, an active portion of the pressure sensor being adjacent to a port configured to permit a fluid to exert a pressure on the active portion, wherein the active portion is radially inward of the port and proximate an outer surface of the shaft, and wherein the active portion is water-tight so that the active portion of the pressure sensor is separated from the fluid while permitting the active portion of the pressure sensor to measure the pressure of the fluid.