Access Vascular, Inc.

Other

Daniel Donahue

Michael Bassett

James F Biggins

Matthew M Mannarino

James H McKean

High strength biomedical materials and processes for making the same are disclosed. Included in the disclosure are nanoporous hydrophilic solids that can be extruded with a high aspect ratio to make high strength medical catheters and other devices with lubricious and biocompatible surfaces.

High strength biomedical materials

High strength biomedical materials and processes for making the same are disclosed. Included in the disclosure are nanoporous hydrophilic solids that can be extruded with a high aspect ratio to make high strength medical catheters and other devices with lubricious and biocompatible surfaces. Polymers may be entrapped in pores of materials to provide a durable modification of the materials.

High strength porous materials incorporating water soluble polymers

High strength biomedical materials and processes for making the same are disclosed. Included in the disclosure are nanoporous hydrophilic solids that can be extruded with a high aspect ratio to make high strength medical catheters and other devices with lubricious and biocompatible surfaces. Biologically active agents may be entrapped in pores of materials to provide a controlled release of the biologically active agent.

High strength porous materials for controlled release

Articles, such as catheters, comprising markings and associated methods are generally provided. The articles described herein may be configured to be exhibit one or more desirable properties. For instance, in some embodiments, an article comprises markings that are spaced from each other at known distances. Such markings may be employed to aid users of the article in measuring distances. As another example, an article may be configured to swell upon exposure to the fluid such that markings positioned thereon do not crack or delaminate. It is also possible for the article to be configured to swell upon exposure to the fluid in a known, predictable, and/or uniform manner. This swelling may cause the spacings between the markings to increase, and such increase may also be in a known, predictable, and/or uniform manner. When the fluid causing the article to swell is a bodily fluid, such as a fluid the article would be exposed to upon implantation into a patient, and the article swells such that the markings have a known spacing in the patient, the markings may advantageously be employed to measure distances in the patient and/or the change in marking spacing may be employed to determine the swelling of the article in the patient.

Articles comprising markings and related methods

A flight management system of the present disclosure has an internal network that uses an open architecture concept with no single point of failure of critical system and which is cyber secure for aviation assets. A flight management system of the present disclosure comprises an internal network operating on an aircraft, and the internal network communicatively coupled to an external network via a firewall. The flight management system further has a primary system installed on the aircraft, which is initially active, and the primary system has a first weapons domain communicatively coupled to the internal network, a first flight domain communicatively coupled to the internal network, and a first communications domain communicatively coupled to the internal network. The flight management system also has a mirror system installed on the aircraft, which is initially inactive, and the mirror system has a second weapons domain communicatively coupled to the internal network, a second flight domain communicatively coupled to the internal network, and a second communications domain communicatively coupled to the internal network. Furthermore, the flight management system has a monitoring system separate from the primary system and the mirror system and communicatively coupled to the internal network, and the monitoring system has a processor. The processor monitors, over the internal network, the first weapons domain, the first flight domain, and the first communications domain while active. The processor reboots, over the internal network, the first weapons domain, the first flight domain, or the first communications domain if the first weapons domain, the first flight domain, or the first communications domain change state and the processor activates the second weapons domain if the first weapons domain is rebooted, activates the second flight domain if the first flight domain is rebooted, or activates the second communications domain if the first communication domain is rebooted.

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

Daniel Donahue