US 2026/0227580 A1 · Systems and Methods Including Procedural Barrier-Breaching Connectors and Connection-Establishing Devices

Abstract

Procedural barrier-breaching connectors and connection-establishing devices, and systems and methods thereof, for establishing portals in procedural barriers are disclosed. For example, a connection-establishing device can include a cap and an extension arm. The cap is configured to sit over a protruding portion of a first medical device with a procedural barrier between the connection-establishing device and the first medical device. The extension arm is configured to push a male connector of a second medical device through the procedural barrier and into a female connector of the first medical device with the extension arm, which establishes one or more functional connections across the procedural barrier between the second medical device and the first medical device. An exemplary method for the connection-establishing device includes a cap-placing step, an articulating step, and a functional connection-establishing step for establishing the one-or-more functional connections.

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Dependent claims

A connection system, comprising:

a male connector including:
two or more prongs extending to a common terminal end of the male connector;
an optical-fiber holder along a longitudinal axis of the male connector between the two-or-more prongs and short of the common terminal end, the optical-fiber holder configured for holding therein a ferrule including an optical fiber;
and
a female connector including:
two or more prong receptacles corresponding in number to the two-or-more prongs that extend to a common terminal end of the female connector;
and
an optical-fiber receptacle along a longitudinal axis of the female connector between the two-or-more prong receptacles and commensurate with the common terminal end configured for holding therein another ferrule including another optical fiber, the male and female connectors
configured to establish an optical connection between the optical fiber of the male connector and the other optical fiber of the female connector when the optical fiber and the other optical fiber are respectively held in the male connector and the female connector.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Systems and Methods Including Procedural Barrier-Breaching Connectors and Connection-Establishing Devices

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