Ultraviolet sleeves for percutaneous devices and methods for using and/or providing the same

US11260210B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · US

Inventors

• Henry M. Spotnitz · New York, US
• David Jonathan Brenner · New York, US
• Alan Bigelow · Hastings-on-Hudson, US
• Gerhard Randers-Pehrson · Ossining, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 16, 2016
• Grant date: Mar 1, 2022
• Expiry date: Feb 9, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N2005/0661
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An exemplary ultraviolet (UV) arrangement, can be provided, which can include, for example, a lumen structured to be inserted into a body of a patient and pass a percutaneous structure therethrough into the body of the patient, wherein the lumen can be configured to disperse or provide a UV radiation, and an optical arrangement coupled to the lumen, and configured to generate the UV radiation, and provide the UV radiation to the lumen to be dispersed or provided by the lumen. The lumen can include a weave of a plurality of strands. The optical arrangement can include an optical fiber(s) coupled to the lumen at one of the strands. The optical arrangement can include a plurality of optical fibers coupled to the lumen, where the optical arrangement can include a plurality of diffusing rings, and wherein each ring can be connected to one of the optical fibers.