Patent ID: 8231527

Claim:
A surgical wound protector having a fully extended configuration and a gathered configuration, the wound protector comprising: a) a distal ring; b) a proximal ring comprising a central axis and a cross-sectional geometry, the cross-sectional geometry comprising (i) a centroid, a longitudinal axis parallel to the central axis and crossing the centroid when the wound protector is in the fully extended configuration, and a lateral axis normal to the central axis and crossing the centroid when the wound protector is in the fully extended configuration; (ii) a shape being asymmetric about the longitudinal axis and asymmetric about the lateral axis; (iii) a height along the longitudinal axis and a width along the lateral axis as measured when the wound protector is in the fully extended configuration, the height being greater than the width; and c) a flexible sleeve having a length extending between the proximal and distal rings; wherein the proximal ring is rollable to gather the flexible sleeve around the proximal ring and shorten the length of the flexible sleeve from the fully extended configuration to a gathered configuration.