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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Omniguide, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Robert Payne, Wellesley, MA (US);
Jesse Rusk, Allston, MA (US);
Mihai Ibanescu, Somerville, MA (US);
Crystal Simon, San Jose, CA (US);
OmniGuide, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A surgical tool and method of use during laparascopic surgery, the tool including a shaft having a distal region with an elastic modulus E. Distal and proximal regions of the shaft have outer diameters Dand Drespectively, with D>D. The distal region has a bend and terminates in a working feature having a distal end. The distal region has a length Lmeasured in a direction parallel to the shaft axis in the proximal region, and has an offset drelative to the proximal region where d>D. The elastic modulus E and the length of Lare selected so that the working feature is insertable through an access device yet the distal region does not deflect noticeably when a force of 10 N is applied perpendicular to the distal end of the working feature.