Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.

Brandon Scott Sargent

Larry L Howell

David W Bailey

Spencer P Magleby

Brian D Jensen

Kendall Hal Seymour

Hannah Rose Lutz

Jared J Butler

Maxwell J Bean

A deployable tube apparatus may include a spool and a flexible sheet coiled about the spool in a laterally unfurled condition. The flexible sheet may have a first lateral margin and a second lateral margin, and may be deployable from the laterally unfurled condition with the first and the second lateral margins spaced from each other to a deployed tubular condition where the first and the second lateral margins are coupled to each other to form an enclosed lumen. The deployable tube apparatus may provide lateral support to an elongated flexible instrument, such as a catheter. Methods of creating and using the deployable tube apparatus are described.

Deployable tube apparatus for delivery of an elongate device and methods of use

An origami bellows includes a plurality of layers including a support layer having a diameter that remains fixed irrespective of axial expansion or compression of the origami bellows. The origami bellows may be used as an anti-buckling device providing lateral support to a catheter or other elongated medical instrument.

Deployable bellows for delivery of a flexible, elongate device and methods of use

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Provo, UT, United States of America

Brandon Scott Sargent