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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2017
Syntheon, Llc, Miami, FL (US);
Kevin W. Smith, Coral Gables, FL (US);
Derek Dee Deville, Coral Gables, FL (US);
Korey Kline, Miami, FL (US);
Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Miami, FL (US);
Matthew A. Palmer, Miami, FL (US);
Carlos Rivera, Cooper City, FL (US);
Syntheon, LLC, Miami, FL (US);
Abstract
A variably-flexible, locking insertion device includes a hollow body having a proximal end with an entrance for receiving an instrument, a distal end with a tip for protrusion of the instrument, and a handle to be gripped by an operator. A device transitions the hollow body between a relatively flexible condition and a relatively stiff condition. Tendons are disposed within the hollow body for maintaining the hollow body in the relatively flexible and relatively stiff conditions, the tendons being neither in tension nor compression when the hollow body is in the relatively stiff condition.