Pacesetter, Inc.

Procept Biorobotics Corporation

Iscience Interventional Corporation

Aesculap Ag

Friedrich Ho

Thomas Blake Eby

Keith Phillip Laby

Paul M Paspa

Surag Mantri

Brian Tang

Ronald Kenichi Yamamoto

Stanley R Conston

Kevin Patrick Staid

James Luis Badia

Lawrence Kerver

Peter Bentley

Scott Dennis Taylor

Ben Nordell

An energy source is offset from an elongate probe axis with an extension. The amount of offset of the energy source can be controlled by varying an amount of offset of the extension. The energy source rotated and translated at the offset distance to resect tissue. In some embodiments, the probe is configured to receive a second treatment probe comprising a second energy source, in which the second energy source is rotated and translated relative to the first treatment probe, which can improve positional accuracy and stability. The energy source and the extension can be coupled to a linkage to offset the energy source, and to translate and rotate the energy source with varying amounts of offset. The linkage can be coupled to a processor and one or more of the energy source moved in accordance with a treatment profile.

Surgical probe with independent energy sources

A device for loading a leadless pacemaker onto a catheter-based delivery system includes a distal portion and a proximal portion. The distal portion includes a retention feature configured to receive the leadless pacemaker. The proximal portion is proximal the distal portion and includes a funneling structure opening toward the retention feature. The distal and proximal portions of the device are configured such that, when a distal end of the catheter-based delivery system is brought towards the proximal portion of the loading device and the leadless pacemaker is retained by the retention feature, the funneling structure guides features of the distal end of the catheter-based delivery system through an opening in an attachment feature located at a proximal end of the leadless pacemaker.

System and method for loading a leadless pacemaker onto a catheter-based delivery system

Disclosed herein is a medical leadless pacemaker delivery system adapted to engage and disengage with leadless pacemakers to allow for the repeated use of the leadless pacemaker delivery system in delivering and implanting multiple leadless pacemakers into a patient heart in a serial or repeated manner. The leadless pacemaker delivery system includes a handle, an attachment mechanism, a torque portion, and a rotation limiter. The handle includes a housing. The attachment mechanism is operably coupled to the housing and configured to actuate between a released state and an engaged state. The torque portion is operably coupled to the housing and rotatable relative to the housing to transition the attachment mechanism between the released and engaged states. The torque portion includes a shaft. The rotation limiter is in sliding engagement with the shaft between a first stop and a second stop. The rotation limiter includes a first helical thread. The leadless pacemaker delivery system also includes a second helical thread in threaded engagement with the first helical thread and operably coupled to the housing. Rotation of the torque portion rotates the rotation limiter such that the first helical thread is rotated against the second helical thread, thereby driving the rotation limiter along the shaft between the first stop and the second stop.

System for repeated delivery of implantable devices

Disclosed herein is a medical tool adapted to engage and disengage with leadless pacemakers to allow for the repeated use of the tool in delivering and implanting multiple leadless pacemakers into a patient heart in a serial or repeated manner. The tool includes a handle, an attachment mechanism, a torque portion, and a rotation limiter. The handle includes a housing. The attachment mechanism is operably coupled to the housing and configured to actuate between a released state and an engaged state. The torque portion is operably coupled to the housing and rotatable relative to the housing to transition the attachment mechanism between the released and engaged states. The torque portion includes a shaft. The rotation limiter is in sliding engagement with the shaft between a first stop and a second stop. The rotation limiter includes a first helical thread. The tool also includes a second helical thread in threaded engagement with the first helical thread and operably coupled to the housing. Rotation of the torque portion rotates the rotation limiter such that the first helical thread is rotated against the second helical thread, thereby driving the rotation limiter along the shaft between the first stop and the second stop.

The invention provides surgical devices that provide access to the sub-retinal space using delicate traction to hold the sensory retina to create and maintain a patent sub-retinal space of sufficient size to introduce and perform treatments on the eye. Such treatments may include the introduction of illumination or imaging agents or tools, surgical tools, the infusion of pharmaceutical or biological agents, and the placement of grafts, transplants or implants and the closure of the site through the delivery of a sealant.

Subretinal access device

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Friedrich Ho