Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and devices for providing access into a body cavity
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Application No.: US16663808Application Date: 2019-10-25
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Publication No.: US11266394B2Publication Date: 2022-03-08
- Inventor: Christopher W. Widenhouse , Frederick E. Shelton, IV
- Applicant: Ethicon LLC
- Applicant Address: US PR Guaynabo
- Assignee: Ethicon LLC
- Current Assignee: Ethicon LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US PR Guaynabo
- Agency: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
- Main IPC: A61B17/02
- IPC: A61B17/02 ; A61B17/34 ; A61B17/00

Abstract:
Methods and devices are provided for providing surgical access into a body cavity. In one embodiment, a surgical access device is provided that includes a housing coupled to a retractor. The housing can be have one or more movable sealing ports for receiving surgical instruments. Each movable sealing port can include one or more sealing elements therein for sealing the port and/or forming a seal around a surgical instrument disposed therethrough. Each movable sealing port can be rotatable relative to the housing and each sealing element can be rotatable relative to the housing along a predetermined orbital path.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200060672A1 Methods and Devices for Providing Access into a Body Cavity Public/Granted day:2020-02-27
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