The company has developed the Alair System, an interventional medical device that delivers controlled thermal energy to the airways of adult patients to reduce the mass of airway smooth muscle in a procedure called Bronchial Thermoplasty, which is used for the bronchoscopic treatment of patients with moderate to severe asthma. Asthmatx was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boston Scientific.