Patent ID: 11896777
Assignee: QMAX, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 5:
6. The expandable tubing of claim 1, where the outer tube body has a natural state and an expanded state,
where the outer tube body is expandable from the natural state to the expanded state due to a device in the lumen such that when the device is advanced in the lumen the spring material is configured to reduce a force required to expand a diameter of the outer tube body via the device by naturally reverting to a more expanded configuration as the device is advanced in the lumen, and
where the outer tube body is contractible from the expanded state to the natural state due to the device in the lumen such that when the device is retracted from the lumen the outer tube body is configured to contract the diameter of the outer tube body.