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US 2025/0359736 A1Published application
Methods and apparatuses for navigating using a pair of rigidizing devices
AssigneeNeptune Medical Inc.
InventorsNatalie FERRANTE, Neal TANNER
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for navigating a system comprising a nested pair of rigidizing devices through a body lumen. The rigidizing devices are configured to alternately rigidize and to transition between a rigidized state and a flexible state and to copy the shape of the device when advancing or retracting. Also described herein are examples of apparatuses for automatically or semi-automatically screening a body lumen using a nested pair of rigidizing devices.
Claims20
-28. (canceled)
A method of controlling a nested pair of rigidizing devices, the method comprising:
- receiving a copy command from a user input;
- automatically performing a shape copying sequence, wherein the shape copying sequence comprises:
- advancing a first rigidizing device of the nested pair of rigidizing devices relative to a second rigidizing device of the nested pair of rigidizing devices, while the first rigidizing device is in a flexible state and the second rigidizing device is in a rigidized state, wherein the first rigidizing device is initially proximal to the second rigidizing device so that first rigidizing device copies the shape of the second rigidizing device;
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- preventing the first rigidizing device from advancing distal to the second rigidizing device.
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A method of controlling a nested pair of rigidizing devices, the method comprising:
- receiving a copy command from a user input;
- and
- automatically performing a shape copying sequence while the user input is received, wherein the shape copying sequence comprises:
- advancing a first rigidizing device of the nested pair of rigidizing devices relative to the first to a second rigidizing device of the nested pair of rigidizing devices, while the first rigidizing device is in a flexible state and the second rigidizing device is in a rigidized state, wherein the first rigidizing device is initially proximal to the second rigidizing device so that first rigidizing device copies the shape of the second rigidizing device.
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A system comprising:
- a nested pair of rigidizing devices comprising a first rigidizing device and a second rigidizing device;
- one or more processors;
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- a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storing computer-program instructions, that, when executed by the one or more processors, perform a computer-implemented method for controlling the nested pair of rigidizing devices, the method comprising:
- receiving a copy command from a user input;
- automatically performing a shape copying sequence, wherein the shape copying sequence comprises:
- advancing a first rigidizing device relative to a second rigidizing device, while the first rigidizing device is in a flexible state and the second rigidizing device is in a rigidized state, wherein the first rigidizing device is initially proximal to the second rigidizing device so that first rigidizing device copies the shape of the second rigidizing device;
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- preventing the first rigidizing device from advancing distal to the second rigidizing device.
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A system comprising:
- a nested pair of rigidizing devices comprising a first rigidizing device and a second rigidizing device;
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storing computer-program instructions, that, when executed by the one or more processors, perform a computer-implemented method for controlling the nested pair of rigidizing devices, the method comprising:
- receiving a copy command from a user input;
- automatically performing a shape copying sequence while the copy command is received, wherein the shape copying sequence comprises:
- advancing a first rigidizing device relative to a second rigidizing device, while the first rigidizing device is in a flexible state and the second rigidizing device is in a rigidized state, wherein the first rigidizing device is initially proximal to the second rigidizing device so that first rigidizing device copies the shape of the second rigidizing device.
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-135. (canceled)
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