Covidien LP

Bedford Systems LLC

Pitney Bowes Inc.

Meridian Medical Technologies, Inc.

Tyco Healthcare Group LP

Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.

Cormac O'Prey

David C Racenet

Thomas Wenchell

Rebecca Ann Wilkins

Valerie Anne Scott

Charlotte Adele Clark

Thomas John Hector Copeland

Wai Ting Chan

Daniel Leonard Fuller

Alistair Ian Fleming

Trevor John Beckett

Christopher John Silk

Paul Gordon Wilkins

Peter David Cauwood

Thomas Bates Jackson

Gary Stacey

Ross Jones

Daniel Brady

Charles Frazer Kilby

Keith Paul Thompson

Scott James Grubb

Peter Rae Peterson

Thomas J Novak

Miles William Noel Hember

Shawn Gulla

Ross Packard

Jennifer Caitlin Huot Carlson

Michael J Bettuchi

Simon Roderick Grover

Iain Ansell

Stephen Phillip Brown

Richard M Estabrook

Matthew Egerton Young

John Glyndwr Wilmot

Charles W Klein

Peter John Watson

Sophie Rebecca Raven

Peter Peterson

Nicholas John Collier

Grant Smetham

Carl R Chapman

Joan T Doutney

Dominic Charles Reber

Margaret Uznanski

Camilla Schmitt

Mark Joseph Cohen

Fabien Yannick Schmitt

Nicolas Alejandro Martinez

Niall Allan Mottram

Neil Lester Campbell

Nicholas David Rollings

Fiona Middlemiss Haig

Christopher Paul Richardson

Chris Covey

Barry Dobson

Chris Roach

Marc Angotti

Ray Carroll

Kevin Hartley

Frank Consoli

Jennifer Rachel Gell

James Hewitt

Robert James Applegate

Barry W Simkins

Anthony L Ceniccola

Danyel J Racenet

Kimberly E Martin

Scott Grubb

John Leach

Jim Hewitt

Nial Allan Mottram

Mark Cohen

Paul Wilkins

Stephen Brown

Nadia Fern Neave

Alistair Fleming

Systems, methods and cartridges for carbonating or otherwise dissolving gas in a precursor liquid, such as water, to form a beverage. A gas source can be provided in a cartridge which is used to generate gas that is dissolved into the precursor liquid. A beverage medium, such as a powdered drink mix or liquid syrup, may be provided in the same, or a separate cartridge as the gas source and mixed with the precursor liquid to form a beverage. The use of one or more cartridges for the gas source and/or beverage medium may make for an easy to use and mess-free system for making sparkling beverages, e.g., in the consumer's home.

Method and apparatus for cartridge-based carbonation of beverages

A surgical access assembly for positioning within an opening in tissue including an outer frame positionable outside a patient and defining an opening therein dimensioned to receive a surgical instrument therethrough. The outer frame includes first and second portions. The first portion is biased into locking engagement with the second portion such that a first engagement structure is in locking engagement with a second engagement structure. An inner member is positionable within a patient and a flexible member extends between the inner member and outer member and is operatively associated with the outer member. The first portion is movable to overcome the bias to move the first and second engagement structures to a disengaged position, wherein in the disengaged position at least one of the first and second portions is movable with respect to the other portion to adjust the tension on the flexible member to retract tissue.

Thoracic access port

A minimally invasive surgical instrument including a viewing instrument and a wiper mechanism configured and adapted to clean a lens of the viewing instrument. The wiper mechanism includes a wiper that is configured and adapted to contact and translate across a surface of the lens. An actuator moves the wiper across the lens to clean the lens.

Endoscope wiper blade cleaner

A surgical access assembly for accessing a cavity of a patient includes a proximal frame member, a distal frame member, and a membrane between the proximal and distal frame members. The proximal frame member is positionable adjacent an external surface of tissue and has first and second frame portions movable between a contracted condition and an expanded condition to expand an opening defined therethrough. The membrane defines a loop disposed about at least a portion of the proximal frame member at a proximal end thereof and is engaged to the distal frame member at a distal end thereof. The membrane is transitionable between a crumpled condition and an extended condition upon transitioning of the proximal frame member between the contracted condition and the expanded condition.

Thoracic access assembly

A surgical access assembly for positioning within an opening in tissue including an outer frame positionable outside a patient and defining an opening therein dimensioned to receive a surgical instrument therethrough. The outer frame includes a first portion, a second portion and a locking portion. An inner member is positionable within a patient and a flexible member extends between the inner member and outer frame and is spreadable by actuation of the outer frame.

Expandable surgical access port

A surgical access assembly includes a body having first and second body members. Each body member has an opposed side and an outer side. The body members are coupled to one another by a connector and are moveable with respect to one another between an approximated position and a spread position wherein the opposed sides are flexed outwardly and apart from one another to define a passageway therebetween. A flexible membrane is coupled to the first and second body members and extends therefrom such that translating the flexible membrane radially outwardly moves the body members from the approximated position to the spread position.

Expandable thoracic access port

A method of retrieving a tissue specimen comprising inserting a surgical retrieval apparatus through an opening in a patient's skin, the surgical retrieval apparatus including a support member and a retrieval bag extending from the support member and having an opening to receive the tissue specimen. A net is introduced into the retrieval bag and placed over the tissue specimen. The net and retrieval bag are removed from the patient's body to remove the tissue specimen.

Surgical retrieval apparatus

A surgical access port for accessing a cavity of a patient having an outer frame including first and second frame portions, wherein at least one of the frame portions is movable with respect to the other frame portion. The outer frame has a first length greater than the first width, wherein movement of at least one of the frame portions away from the other frame portion increases the outer frame to a third length greater than the first length. An inner member has a second length and a second width, the second length being substantially transverse to the first length of the outer frame and the second width being substantially transverse to the first width of the outer frame. A flexible member extends between the outer frame and inner member and is movable by movement of at least one of the frame portions.

A surgical access assembly for positioning within an opening in tissue including an outer member positionable outside a patient and defining an opening therein to receive a surgical instrument. The outer member has a first portion and a second portion wherein at least one of the first and second portions is movable with respect to the other portion. The assembly also includes an inner member positionable within a patient and a flexible member extending between the inner member and outer member, wherein movement of one of the first and second portions of the outer member adjusts tension on the flexible member to retract tissue. A locking mechanism locks the outer member in a plurality of select expanded positions. The locking mechanism includes first engagement structure on the first portion engageable with the second portion and a slidable member movable to a locking position to retain the first and second portions in the select expanded position.

A surgical retrieval apparatus includes an elongate tubular member having a drive rod slidably disposed therein. A support member is operably coupled to a distal end of the drive rod. A pouch is attached to the support member and has a closed end and an open end. The pouch is securely coupled to the support member.

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