US 12,109,373 B2
Devices and systems for an endoscopic procedure
Kyle H. Srivastava, Saint Paul, MN (US); Vijay Koya, Blaine, MN (US); Jonathan B. Shute, Eagan, MN (US); Christopher Piere, Hudson, WI (US); and Mark Kringle, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed by Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/473,483.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/078,544, filed on Sep. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0080154 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 25/01 (2006.01); A61M 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 25/0136 (2013.01) [A61M 2025/0002 (2013.01); A61M 2205/0294 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3317 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3331 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flexible elongate member defining a working channel sized and configured to allow instruments to be passed therethrough to perform a procedure with respect to a treatment site, said flexible elongate member comprising:
an exterior tubular wall;
an interior tubular wall positioned within the exterior tubular wall and defining an interior space between the exterior tubular wall and the interior tubular wall; and
at least one sensor positioned within said interior space;
wherein:
at least one of said exterior wall and said interior wall defines a flexible and deflectable distal end of said flexible elongate member; and
said at least one sensor is positioned in said flexible and deflectable distal end of said flexible elongate member and is configured to detect deflection of said flexible and deflectable distal end.