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Surveillance,
Not Just Statistics.
The complete FDA medical device data universe aggregated, normalized, and made searchable in one place. Transform raw filings into competitive intelligence, post-market surveillance, and safety insight your regulatory, quality, and strategy teams can actually use.
Device Lens · FDA Data Universe
Benchmark your safety profile.
Monitor competitor shifts. Map the market.
All six FDA device datasets aggregated, cross-referenced, and searchable within Lexim Sphere and activated by the Periscope Engine for deep competitive and safety analysis.
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FDA Datasets Aggregated
Device Records Searchable
Continuously Updated
FDA Portals
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The Data
Everything the FDA publishes.
In one searchable place.
Device Lens aggregates all six core FDA medical device datasets — continuously updated, cross-referenced, and ready for search, analysis, and strategic action.
PMA
PREMARKET
APPROVAL
WHAT IT IS
The most stringent FDA review pathway for Class III devices that cannot be cleared via 510(k). Includes full approval history, panel decisions, conditions of approval, post-approval study requirements, and supplement filings.
STRATEGIC VALUE
Understand the depth of evidence required for your device class. Analyze competitor approval conditions and post-market commitments. Track supplement activity as a signal of product evolution and competitive pipeline development.
WHAT IT IS
Recalls
ENFORCEMENT
ACTIONS
STRATEGIC VALUE
Monitor competitor recall activity as an early indicator of quality system weakness. Identify recurring failure modes in your device category. Proactively assess whether similar risks exist in your own product line before regulators act.
WHAT IT IS
The FDA's premarket notification database for Class II medical devices seeking clearance via substantial equivalence. Includes device descriptions, predicate comparisons, indications for use, and decision history dating back decades.
WHAT IT IS
The FDA's Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience database — the most comprehensive repository of reported medical device adverse events, malfunctions, and deaths in the US market.
The FDA's complete medical device recall database — Class I, II, and III actions — including recall reason, affected device codes, distribution scope, and corrective action taken by the manufacturer.
WHAT IT IS
The FDA's complete device classification database — mapping every device type to its product code, device class, regulatory pathway, and applicable performance standards under 21 CFR.
510(k)
PREMARKET NOTIFICATION
STRATEGIC VALUE
Identify clearance pathways your competitors have used. Find predicate devices for your own submissions. Benchmark clearance timelines by device type and understand what the FDA has — and hasn't — accepted.
Benchmark your own adverse event profile against the market. Identify safety signals in competitor devices before they become enforcement actions. Strengthen your post-market surveillance program with real-world comparative data.
STRATEGIC VALUE
ADVERSE EVENT REPORTS
MAUDE
Class
DEVICE CLASSIFICATION
STRATEGIC VALUE
Confirm the regulatory pathway for your device early in development. Identify adjacent classifications that may affect your market strategy. Understand the full competitive landscape of devices regulated under the same product code.
De Novo
NOVEL DEVICE CLASSIFICATION
WHAT IT IS
The FDA's De Novo database for novel, low-to-moderate risk devices that lack a predicate for 510(k) clearance. De Novo grants establish new device classifications and can themselves serve as predicates for future 510(k) submissions.
STRATEGIC VALUE
Identify whether a De Novo pathway is viable for your novel device. Monitor competitor De Novo grants that may establish new classifications affecting your market. Understand emerging device categories before they become crowded.
Strategic Applications
What your team
does with Device Lens.
Device Lens is not a data archive. It is a strategic and quality intelligence capability — built for the teams who need to know what the market is doing, what equivalent devices have experienced, and what the regulatory landscape demands.
Competitive Pipeline Monitoring
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Track 510(k) and PMA activity across your device category in real time. Know when a competitor receives clearance, files a supplement, or shifts their regulatory strategy before your sales team hears it in the field.
Safety Profile Benchmarking​​
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Compare your MAUDE adverse event rate against the market. Identify whether your safety signal is an outlier or industry-wide. Build a data-backed narrative for regulators, investors, and clinical teams.
Predicate Strategy
Search the full 510(k) database to identify the strongest predicate devices for your submission — by device description, indications for use, technology characteristics, and clearance timeline. Build your predicate chain with confidence.
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Recall Pattern Analysis
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Identify recurring failure modes and recall reasons across your device category. Proactively assess whether the same risks exist in your product line and address them before an enforcement action forces your hand.
Pathway Planning
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Understand which regulatory pathways 510(k), PMA, De Novo competitors have used for similar devices and what the FDA required. Build your regulatory strategy on historical evidence, not assumptions.
Post-Market Intelligence
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Continuously monitor the market for safety signals, enforcement trends, and competitor activity that affects your post-market surveillance obligations and integrates directly with your Cabinet documents via the Periscope Engine.
Equivalent Device Safety Review
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Quality teams have a direct obligation to monitor whether equivalent or similar devices have suffered adverse events, malfunctions, or recalls. Device Lens makes this search immediate — identify whether a safety signal in the market has implications for your own product and quality system.
Powered by the Engines
Three Engines.
Built for Device Lens.
Device Lens delivers the data. Three of Lexim Sphere's proprietary AI Engines are purpose-built to activate it — turning raw FDA filings into competitive profiles, predicate chains, and device classifications tailored to your pipeline and strategy.
Periscope — competitive device profiling, safety signal analysis, and market mapping across MAUDE, Recalls, 510(k), and PMA data in your device category
Predicate Finder — searches the full 510(k) and De Novo database to identify your strongest predicate candidates by device description, indications for use, and clearance history
Classification Engine — determines the correct device classification, product code, and regulatory pathway for your device based on the full FDA classification database and historical precedent
PERISCOPE · PREDICATE FINDER · CLASIFICATION
Three of the Lexim Engines suite —purpose-built for Device Lens data