H4 Engineering, Inc.

Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.

Vactronix Scientific, Llc.

Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd., a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Palmaz Scientific, Inc.

Abps Venture One, Ltd.

Other

Abps Venture One, Ltd., a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Palmaz Scientific, Inc.

Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd., a Wholly Owned Subsidary of Palmaz Scientific, Inc.

Advanced Bio Prosthestic Surfaces, Ltd.

Advanced Bio Prothestic Surfaces, Ltd.

Christopher T Boyle

Denes Marton

Christopher E Banas

Alexander G Sammons

Steven Bailey

Scott K Taylor

Julio C Palmaz

Roger W Wiseman

Gordon Jason Glover

John T O'Callaghan

Christian V Elder

Konstantin Othmer

Eugene A Sprague

Cristina Fuss

Christopher T Banas

Steven R Bailey

Roger Wiseman

Christina Fuss

Existence of instrumentation for automatic video recording creates an excess capacity of video recording for those who own automatic video recorders. Others may want to utilize this excess capacity to record their activities thus there is a need for a system that helps match those who would like to utilize the excess capacity with those who have such capacity. Such excess capacity is matched with demand to use such excess capacity by creating a network of automatic video recording units and tags that are associated with people who want to be recorded.

Tracking camera network

Current indoor tracking methods are inadequate to accurately and reliably point a pointer or camera at an object or a person doing an activity. An apparatus and method are provided for cooperative tracking that is operable both indoors and outdoors. The system works using ranging technology without the need for placing radiation sources and/or sensors in set locations around the location where tracking takes place. The apparatus and method may be used for automatic filming, allowing free movement of both the subject of the filming and that of the camera with a compact design, and providing easy setup at any location.

Apparatus and method for automatically orienting a camera at a target

An implantable expandable medical device in which selected regions of the device are in a martensite phase and selected regions are in an austenite phase. The martensitic regions exhibit pseudoplastic behavior in vivo and may be deformed without recovery under in vivo body conditions. In contrast the austenitic regions exhibit superelastic behavior in vivo and will recover their pre-programmed configuration upon deformation or release of an applied strain.

Implantable expandable medical devices having regions of differential mechanical properties and methods of making same

Implantable medical grafts fabricated of metallic or pseudometallic films of biocompatible materials having a plurality of microperforations passing through the film in a pattern that imparts fabric-like qualities to the graft or permits the geometric deformation of the graft. The implantable graft is preferably fabricated by vacuum deposition of metallic and/or pseudometallic materials into either single or multi-layered structures with the plurality of microperforations either being formed during deposition or after deposition by selective removal of sections of the deposited film. The implantable medical grafts are suitable for use as endoluminal or surgical grafts and may be used as vascular grafts, stent-grafts, skin grafts, shunts, bone grafts, surgical patches, non-vascular conduits, valvular leaflets, filters, occlusion membranes, artificial sphincters, tendons and ligaments.

Compliant implantable medical devices and methods of making same

Implantable in vivo sensors used to monitor physical, chemical or electrical parameters within a body. The in vivo sensors are integral with an implantable medical device and are responsive to externally or internally applied energy. Upon application of energy, the sensors undergo a phase change in at least part of the material of the device which is then detected external to the body by conventional techniques such as radiography, ultrasound imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, radio frequency imaging or the like. The in vivo sensors of the present invention may be employed to provide volumetric measurements, flow rate measurements, pressure measurements, electrical measurements, biochemical measurements, temperature, measurements, or measure the degree and type of deposits within the lumen of an endoluminal implant, such as a stent or other type of endoluminal conduit. The in vivo sensors may also be used therapeutically to modulate mechanical and/or physical properties of the endoluminal implant in response to the sensed or monitored parameter.

Method of using an in vivo sensor having differential material properties

The present invention relates to an implantable endoluminal graft. The implantable endoluminal graft is comprised of a microporous thin-film metal covering having a plurality of openings and a structural support element underlying and physically attached to the microporous thin-film metal covering, the microporous thin-film metal covering having shape memory properties.

Implantable graft and methods of making same

The present invention consists of an implantable structural element for in vivo delivery of bioactive active agents to a situs in a body. The implantable structural element may be configured as an implantable prosthesis, such as an endoluminal stent, cardiac valve, osteal implant or the like, which serves a dual function of being prosthetic and a carrier for a bioactive agent. Alternatively, the implantable structural element may simply be an implantable article that serves the single function of acting as a time-release carrier for the bioactive agent.

Device for in vivo delivery of bioactive agents and method of manufacture thereof

Endoluminal device for in vivo delivery of bioactive agents

A metal balloon catheter having a main tubular body, a metal balloon proximate a distal end of the main tubular body, a central annulus extending along an entire longitudinal aspect of the catheter for accommodating a guidewire therethrough and an inflation annulus adjacent the central annulus which extends along the longitudinal axis of the main tubular body and terminates in fluid flow communication with an inflation chamber of the metal balloon. The metal balloon catheter may be either unitary integral metal catheter in which the main tubular body and the balloon are fabricated of metal, or it may consist of a polymeric main tubular body and a metal balloon.

Balloon catheter having metal balloon and method of making same

A network of systems to automatically record videos of one or multiple freely moving subjects using one or multiple cameras. The networked systems employ essential software for recording high quality videos. The network allows the development and use of additional software applications that modify and supplement the essential software. The network of systems further provides features for posting, playing, and streaming videos on a dedicated website, video hosting websites, and/or on social networking websites.

Automatic cameraman, automatic recording system and automatic recording network

A system and method are provided for automatic cooperative object tracking using gain comparison of antenna pairs facing different directions. In cooperative object tracking, the object is associated with a radiation source, or beacon, that emits radiation that is detected by the tracking system. The present invention makes use of antennas that are not highly oriented antennas but are characterized by having a steep drop in their gain profiles at a particular angle of incidence of the radiation that they detect.

Cooperative automatic tracking

System and methods for pointing a device, such as a camera, at a remote target wherein the pointing of the device is controlled by a combination of location information obtained by global positioning technology and image recognition of the target.

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San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Christopher T Boyle