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US 12,616,419 B2Granted
Structurally dynamic and reconfigurable smart medical devices
OwnerBruce Reinerinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to fully autonomous self-navigational medical devices which can be transported within a host subject without existing physical constraints, including those of current physical force limitations, and which are free to undergo a variety of structural and functional adaptations including the ability to perform real-time dynamic adjustment and adaptability to ever changing physiologic, anatomic, and pathologic conditions within the host subject.
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A medical device for use in vivo, comprising:
- a device body;
- at least one sensor disposed in said device body, to receive and/or transmit real-time data;
- wherein said at least one sensor detects an obstruction to a path of said device body to a predetermined destination in vivo based on said data;
- a processor disposed in said device body;
- and
- a self-propulsion device disposed in said device body;
- wherein said processor utilizes said data and based on an analysis of said data, implements a change in a configuration of the medical device;
- and
- wherein said change in configuration of the medical device includes at least one of a structural integrity, a size, a shape, a consistency or a flexibility of the medical device, such that the medical device autonomously self-navigates utilizing said self-propulsion device, said obstruction to said path of the medical device.
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A medical device for use in vivo, comprising:
- a device body;
- at least one sensor disposed in said device body, to receive and/or transmit real-time data;
- wherein said at least one sensor detects an obstruction to a path of said device body to a predetermined destination in vivo based on said data;
- and
- a processor disposed in said device body which utilizes said data and based on an analysis of said data, and implements a change in a configuration of the medical device including at least one of a structural integrity, a size, a shape, a consistency or a flexibility of the medical device, such that the medical device navigates said obstruction to said path of the medical device;
- wherein an authentication process is required before said processor implements said change in said configuration.
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A medical device for use in vivo, comprising:
- a device body;
- at least one sensor disposed in said device body, to receive and/or transmit real-time data;
- wherein said at least one sensor detects an obstruction to a path of said device body to a predetermined destination in vivo based on said data;
- and
- a processor disposed in said device body which utilizes said data and based on an analysis of said data, and implements a change in a configuration of the medical device including at least one of a structural integrity, a size, a shape, a consistency or a flexibility of the medical device, such that the medical device navigates said obstruction to said path of the medical device;
- wherein the medical device is configured to be disassembled into constituent individually operable parts and reassembled into an original configuration;
- and
- wherein said individually operable parts include one of individual segments or sub-components which are configured to detach from said device body and navigate independently to said predetermined destination where said individually operable parts re-attach to attain said original configuration.
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A medical device for use in vivo, comprising:
- a device body:
- at least one sensor disposed in said device body, to receive and/or transmit real-time data;
- wherein said at least one sensor detects an obstruction to a path of said device body to a predetermined destination in vivo based on said data;
- and
- a processor disposed in said device body which utilizes said data and based on an analysis of said data, and implements a change in a configuration of the medical device including at least one of a structural integrity, a size, a shape, a consistency or a flexibility of the medical device, such that the medical device navigates said obstruction to said path of the medical device;
- wherein said processor implements said change in configuration to reduce a diameter of the medical device.
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A method of navigating an obstruction of a medical device in vivo, comprising:
- receiving and/or transmitting real-time data from at least one sensor disposed in a device body;
- detecting an obstruction to a path of the medical device to a predetermined destination in vivo based on said data;
- analyzing said data for real-time modifications or interventions and based on said analysis of said data, and changing a configuration of the medical device including at least one of a structural integrity, a size, a shape, a consistency or a flexibility of the medical device;
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- autonomously self-navigating using a self-propulsion device, said obstruction to said path to the medical device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.