US 12,256,914 B2
Access device having an anchoring feature and methods of using the same
Timothy P. Harrah, Cambridge, MA (US); Christopher L. Oskin, Grafton, MA (US); Arpita Banerjee, Bangalore (IN); Abhijit Takale, Maharashtra (IN); Sandesh Gavade, Bangalore (IN); and Pavan Misra, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Boston Scientific Limited, Hamilton (BM)
Filed by Boston Scientific Limited, Hamilton (BM)
Filed on Apr. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/301,832.
Application 17/301,832 is a continuation of application No. 15/412,864, filed on Jan. 23, 2017, granted, now 11,006,941.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/288,925, filed on Jan. 29, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0228199 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/02 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0218 (2013.01) [A61B 17/3421 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00858 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00951 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0225 (2013.01); A61B 2017/347 (2013.01); A61B 2017/3484 (2013.01); A61B 2017/3488 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical device comprising:
an elongate member defining a lumen and having a first end portion and a second end portion, the first end portion having a hub member defining a funnel shaped opening, the second end portion having a first configuration and a second configuration, the second end portion having a first size when the second end portion is in the first configuration and a second size when the second end portion is in the second configuration, the first size being smaller than the second size, the second end portion being biased to the second configuration;
a sleeve defining a lumen extending from a first end portion of the sleeve to a second end portion of the sleeve, the lumen being configured to movably receive at least one portion of the elongate member, the sleeve being configured to engage the second end portion of the elongate member to help retain the second end portion of the elongate member in the first configuration; and
a lever extending through a sidewall of the hub member of the elongate member and into the funnel shaped opening defined by the hub member.