Company Profile

Slater Endoscopy, LLC is a medical device company that designs and manufactures minimally invasive flexible endoscopic devices. The Company and facility is located in a lite-industrial area of Miami Lakes Florida (NW side of Miami proper) and is home to a number of medical device companies. The approximately 21,000 square-foot facility includes office, engineering, manufacturing, and clean room assembly space.

The company’s first innovative product offering is the Ensizor™ Endoscopic Scissors with Edge-Flex™ technology, used for the cutting and dissecting of tissue during flexible endoscopic procedures.

The design of the Ensizor™ is actually two components assembled together to make a single “blade assembly”. There is a thicker, stiffer blade (the “blade armature”) that is part of the devices’ mechanism chain and also serves as a support/mounting place for a much thinner, more flexible blade that does the cutting, the “cutting blade”. The necessary cutting ability AND the blade preload is accomplished by this component only. When mated with its opposing blade assembly, each cutting blade automatically imparts a force vector that runs laterally from its mounting point on the blade armature, across to its cutting edge. This laterally generated force is made possible by the cutting blade itself effectively being a “leaf spring” having its own inherent springiness. The action brought about by this design is majorly independent of limitations caused by any other component’s position, quality, part tolerance or assembly stack-ups. This invention represents the next evolutionary step for scissors.

An endoscopic surgeon truly has had no availability of a surgically-ready flexible endoscopic scissors. The reason for this is non-obvious to all but those with a personal history of design and development of laparoscopic or endoscopic scissors, this being a very small number of designers. All of the technology that one would see in the patent literature on endoscopic (99.99% are ridged Laparoscopic units) scissors are teachings on the mechanics of every part of the device with the exception of the cutting blade(s) themselves. Suffice it to say that it has been impossible to design a flexible endoscopic scissors that have exemplary cutting performance, great position-ability and tactile feel yet are inexpensive enough to manufacture so they can be profitably sold into the disposable medical device market. Using the intellectual property that Slater Endoscopy has exclusive rights to, these limitations have been surpassed.