C. R. Bard, Inc.

Cayenne Medical, Inc.

Biomet Manufacturing Corporation

Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.

David G Spilka

Alexander William Tessmer

Kevin N Baird

Andrzej J Chanduszko

Robert M Carr, Jr

David W Rauch

John D McDermott

Leonard J Decant

Derek J Harper

Jordan A Hoof

Kenneth D Montgomery

William R Bratt

Joe P Kovalski

David Micky Graves

Robert W Kalis

Daniel O Almazan

Joanne Kovalski, Legal Representative

Avijit Mukherjee

John D Mcdermott

Robert Michael Carr

Andrzej Jerzy Chanduszko

Leonard Decant

Disclosed is a system for inserting an adapter including a docking station and an adapter inserter. The docking station can include a handle block, a push assembly, and a linkage connecting knob push handle to an engagement tube pull block. The engagement tube pull block can extend from the linkage through a portion of the handle block. The adapter inserter can include a handle body, an engagement assembly, and a clamp. The handle body can be sized to fit in a first recess defined by the handle block body. The engagement assembly can extend from a second end of the handle body and can be configured to engage the adapter at a tip of the engagement assembly. The clamp can be located within and proximate a second end of the handle body so as to engage a portion of the engagement assembly.

Adapter inserter and docking station

A filter delivery device for implanting a vessel filter within a blood vessel of a patient's body. The filter delivery device includes a mechanism for preventing hooks and/or legs on a vessel filter from entangling with each other while the vessel filter is loaded within the delivery device. In one variation, the filter delivery device includes a delivery catheter with grooves at the distal end lumen opening. When a vessel filter with radially expanding legs is compressed and inserted into the distal end of the delivery catheter, the hooks on the distal end of the legs are received and separated by the corresponding grooves on the delivery catheter. In another variation, a pusher rod, with a receptacle for receiving the hooks, is positioned within a delivery catheter to prevent the entanglement of the hooks and/or legs of a filter loaded within the delivery catheter.

Filter delivery system

A positioning and installation tool for a fixation implant is inserted through a single, simple drill hole and positioned in place. The device controls the degree to which the implant is deployed and prevents accidental disengagement of the device from the implant before deployment has completed. The device also guides the components of the implant involved in active tendon compression at the aperture of the bone tunnel. The implant is deployed simply by rotating a knob, thereby creating an anchor point of high stiffness and fixation strength. When deployment has completed, the inserter is disengaged from the affixed implant by simply pulling a release mechanism.

Inserter for soft tissue or bone-to-bone fixation device and methods

Apparatuses and methods for coating and/or loading a medical device with a therapeutic agent prior to or during the placement of the medical device within the patient's body. In one variation, the medical device is coated and/or loaded with a therapeutic agent while the device is positioned in a delivery apparatus. In another variation, the delivery apparatus comprises a reservoir for retaining a therapeutic agent. The user may release the therapeutic agent from the reservoir prior to or during the placement of the device to coat and/or load the device with the therapeutic agent.

Drug delivery system

A material fixation system is particularly adapted to improve the tendon-to-bone fixation of hamstring autografts, as well as other soft tissue ACL reconstruction techniques. The system is easy to use, requires no additional accessories, uses only a single drill hole, and can be implanted by one person. Additionally, it replicates the native ACL by compressing the tendons against the aperture of the tibial tunnel, which leads to a shorter graft and increased graft stiffness. It is adapted to accommodate single or double tendon bundle autografts or allografts. It also provides pull out strength measured to be greater than 1000 N.

Devices, systems, and methods for material fixation

An implantable vessel filter having an integrated sensing capability for monitoring the condition of the vessel filter. In one variation, the vessel filter comprises a plurality of legs that would themselves perform as a sensor device for detecting distention, which would indicate the presence of a clot or thrombus therein. A passive electrical circuit may be implemented on the vessel filter to receive electromagnetic energy and transmit signals indicative of the condition of the implanted vessel filter. In another variation, a miniaturized sensor is adapted for measuring the strain and/or other physical parameters of the filter legs.

Vascular filter with sensing capability

Devices, systems and methods for material fixation

A stent compression method for particular use in pre-surgical securing and conforming of a vascular stent upon an angioplasty balloon. One variation of the stent compression method comprises inflating an agioplasty balloon inside a vascular stent in order to secure the vascular stent upon the balloon; applying uniform compression pressure around the balloon/stent unit; and adjusting the internal balloon pressure and the compression pressure so that the balloon/stent unit is compressed. A pressure chamber with an elastic cylindrical membrane mounted inside the chamber may be used to provide the compression pressure. The inflated balloon provides the balancing pressure from inside the stent. The maintenance of internal balloon pressure during the stent compression process may provide uniform distribution of pressure along the stent and even radial compression rate around the circumferential surface of the stent.

Stent compression method

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Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

David G Spilka