US 12,280,208 B2
Vine robot tracheal intubation device
Elliot W. Hawkes, Goleta, CA (US); David A. Haggerty, Goleta, CA (US); and David R. Drover, Stanford, CA (US)
Assigned to The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US); and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/632,335
Filed by The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US); and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 29, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/043942
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 2, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/025911, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/882,239, filed on Aug. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0288334 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 16/04 (2006.01); A61M 16/10 (2006.01); A61M 25/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 16/049 (2014.02) [A61M 16/1005 (2014.02); A61M 25/0119 (2013.01); A61M 2205/0266 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vine robot tracheal intubation device, comprising an everting primary vine robot attached to a mouthpiece and a smaller diameter everting intubation vine robot associated with the primary everting vine robot, wherein the primary vine robot is shaped and sized to extend to the back of a patient's laryngopharynx when fully actuated and the intubation everting vine robot is shaped and sized to extend from the primary vine robot into the patient's trachea when fully actuated, whereby a lumen is provided by the device from the mouthpiece into the patient's trachea, and
wherein the intubation vine robot is formed unitarily with the primary vine robot and is configured to form a branch from the primary vine robot when extended;
wherein the mouthpiece defines an access port to allow inflation of both of the primary soft robot and the intubation soft robot from a single pressure source.