Covidien LP

Tyco Healthcare Group LP

United States Surgical Corporation

Parker-hannifin Corporation

Other

Stant Inc.

Coviden LP

I-deal LLC

United States Surgical Corporatioin

Frank J Viola

Henry E Holsten

Russell S Heinrich

Randolph F Lehn

Clifford L Emmons

John W Beardsley

Dominick L Mastri

Keith L Milliman

Gregg C Krehel

Robert J Geiste

Nicola Cullinan

Thomas W Alesi, Jr

Jon S Wilson

David Ivanko

Csaba L Rethy

Karl H Ehrenfels

Roberto Pedros

Michael J Bettuchi

David N Fowler

Christopher J Criscuolo

Guido Pedros

Joseph Orban, Iii

Michael A Soltz

Ahmad Robert Hadba

Eric J Taylor

Kevin S Sniffin

Robert DeSantis

Robert Capella

Danyel Tarinelli

Henry Bolanos

Kenneth W Horton

James Power

David T Green

Earl M Zergiebel

Peter Hathaway

John C Robertson

Erwin L Schaub

Ralph Robert Corradi

Keith Ratcliff

Wayne P Young

Joseph P Orban

James D Dale

Michael A Zemlok

Gerald N Hodgkinson

Gregory Sorrentino

Timothy Sargeant

Scott Cunningham

Robert J Beetel

Arthur C Stickney

Joshua Benjamin Stopek

Saumya Banerjee

Jeffrey J Blewett

Edward M McKenna

Nelson L Scarborough

Gene A Stellon

Lisa W Heaton

Charles R Sherts

Kenneth Blier

Mitchell J Palmer

Michael Ingmanson

Arpan Desai

Shannon Eleanor Campbell

David M McCuen

Philip J Irka

Yong Ma

Teddy R Bryant

Frank M Rende

Danyel (Tarinelli) Racenet

Nilay Mukherjee

Atu Agawu

Philip D Calabrese

Ghaleb A Sater

Lawrence H Burke

Emily Grace-Anne Gumkowski

Marisha Godek

Eric Stanley

Katherine Jordan

Alicia Joy Farrell

Felix Espositio

Paul A Scirica

David C Racenet

Ernest Aranyi

Kenneth H Whitfield

Thomas Wenchell

David M Farascioni

Philip C Roy

Richard D Gresham

Salvatore Castro

Kenneth E Toso

Bernard C Sharp

Daniel E Alesi

Brian Joseph Cuevas

Richard N Granger

Bruce K Jankowski

Michael S Kolesa

Stephen W Gerry

Timothy O Van Leeuwen

Jonathan E Wilson

Alim Alli

James M Power

A powered endoscopic surgical apparatus is provided and includes a handle including a housing, a power source supported in the housing; an endoscopic portion extending distally from the housing of the handle; an end effector assembly coupled to a distal end of the endoscopic portion, the end effector assembly including a pair of jaws configured to perform a surgical function; a driving member; a drive source including a motor powered by the power source and connected to the driving member; and a gear assembly engaged with the motor. The gear assembly including a gear rack provided on the driving member; and a main gear operatively connected with the gear rack, the motor spinning the main gear such that rotary motion of the main gear moves the driving member in an axial direction such that the driving member actuates the end effector to perform the surgical function.

Battery powered surgical instrument

A surgical apparatus has a clamp and a stapling mechanism. The clamp has a first jaw and a second jaw to clamp on a body tissue at a desired location for a stapling operation. The stapling mechanism is controlled by a trigger handle or a switch assembly. The surgical apparatus has a controller for providing a delay between clamping and actuating of the firing mechanism of the stapling mechanism. The delay provides for a desired amount of time for tissue compression producing a more uniform staple formation. The surgical apparatus also has an indicator. The indicator provides feedback about the status of the stapling mechanism and also displays a time of tissue compression by the clamp.

Surgical stapler with timer and feedback display

A surgical stapling apparatus includes a staple cartridge and an anvil member. The staple cartridge includes a plurality of surgical fasteners disposed in rows of retention slots. The staple cartridge may have an annular or linear configuration of retention slots. The tissue contacting surface of the staple cartridge may be tapered or stepped. The anvil member has a tissue contacting surface that includes a number of pockets arranged for substantially aligning with the retention slots. In addition, the tissue contacting surface of the anvil member may complement the tissue contacting surface of the staple cartridge.

Surgical stapling instruments including a cartridge having multiple staples sizes

A surgical portal apparatus includes a sleeve having a proximal end and a distal end that extends along a longitudinal axis, and a surgical tape. The sleeve includes an inner wall defining an internal longitudinal passageway dimensioned for permitting passage of a surgical object therethrough and an outer wall configured for positioning against tissue. The inner and outer walls define at least a partial annular space therebetween, the annular space being in fluid communication with an opening in the outer wall. The surgical tape includes a body portion retained within the annular space of the sleeve and a leading tab extendable through the opening in the outer wall of the sleeve. The surgical tape has a first surface and a second surface, each of the first and second surfaces having at least one of tissue reactive functional groups and self-reactive functional groups.

Closure tape dispenser

A monitoring system is disclosed for in vivo monitoring of preselected physiological parameters associated with acute and/or chronic tissue compromise or failure in one or multiple tissue/organ sites in real time. In one method, a body portion of a surgical stapling device is positioned adjacent a first tissue section, an anvil assembly adapted to engage the body portion is positioned adjacent a second tissue section, and a monitoring device is positioned adjacent the first and/or second tissue sections. The monitoring device includes a sensor adapted to measure a preselected physiological parameter and a transmitter for transmitting signal to an extracorporeal receiving unit. The surgical stapling device is fired to mechanically secure the first and second tissue sections with at least one staple and the preselected physiological parameter is monitored via the information transmitted from the monitoring device to the receiving unit.

Device for monitoring physiological parameters in vivo

The present disclosure relates to surgical fastener applying apparatus for sequentially applying a plurality of surgical fasteners to body tissue. The surgical fastener applying apparatus includes a replaceable cartridge assembly receivable in a distal end portion of a cartridge receiving half-section, the cartridge assembly including a safety lockout pivotably disposed along the upper surface of the cartridge assembly and movable from an unlocked orientation permitting assembly of an anvil half-section to the cartridge receiving half-section, to a locked orientation preventing assembly of the anvil half-section to the cartridge receiving-half section.

Surgical fastener applying apparatus

A surgical fastener configured to close an opening in tissue is provided. The surgical fastener includes a base defining a central axis at least one pair of legs extending from the base. Each of the legs includes a base portion and a tissue engaging portion. When in a first position, each of the tissue engaging portions is arranged to define an insertion direction and when in a second position, each of the tissue engaging portions extends inward towards the central axis. The surgical fastener is at least partially formed from a shape memory material including a combination of Polydioxanone and Poly(L-lactide) or a combination of Trimethylene Carbonate and Poly(L-lactide). The pair of legs are configured to move from the first position to the second position upon activation of the shape memory material.

Shape memory fasteners and method of use

A surgical stapling apparatus includes a staple anvil and a staple cartridge having a working surface, one or more rows of individual staple slots formed in the working surface, a knife track formed along a length of the working surface, and a plurality of surgical staples individually disposed within the individual staple slots. The apparatus further includes an actuation sled having a knife and being configured and adapted to movably position the knife axially within the knife track. The apparatus also includes a wound closure material applicator assembly having a needle secured to the knife to dispense a quantity of wound closure material along a length of the knife track as the actuation sled and knife are moved therealong.

Surgical stapling apparatus having a wound closure material applicator assembly

An assembly for joining tissue portions is provided and includes an anvil assembly and a body portion juxtaposed with respect to one another along a shaft and arranged so as to be approximated with respect to one another; and an applicator disposed between the body portion and anvil assembly and configured for retaining a wound treatment material therein. The applicator has channels arranged for dispensing the wound treatment material therefrom onto an interface between the tissue portions. A method of joining the tissue portions is also provided and includes the steps of dispensing the wound treatment material from the applicator so as to distribute wound treatment material onto an interface between a first tissue portion and a second tissue portion; and approximating the anvil assembly and the body portion to one another so that the first and second tissue portions are in contact with one another.

Annular adhesive structure

A surgical instrument system includes a surgical instrument, a power supply, and an accessory. The surgical instrument has a first induction device positioned therein. The power supply is electrically coupled to the first induction device. The accessory is selectively operably couplable to the surgical instrument. The accessory includes a second induction device that is inductively coupled with the first induction device when the accessory is operably coupled to the surgical instrument such that the power supply provides power to the accessory.

surgical instrument including inductively coupled accessory

There is disclosed a materials delivery system for use with a surgical stapling instrument having at least one jaw including a knife slot. The materials delivery system includes a series of treatment material receiving pockets positioned adjacent the knife slot such that a portion of each pocket is open to the knife slot. A source of treatment material is positioned within the pockets such that passage of the knife blade adjacent to the pockets repeatedly coats the knife blade with the treatment material.

Materials delivery system for stapling device

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Sandy Hook, CT, United States of America

Frank J Viola