Covidien LP

Convatec Technologies, Inc.

Bedford Systems LLC

Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Smith + Nephew

Coloplast A/s

Bristol-Myers Squibb Compnay

Pepsico, Inc.

Morningside Venture Investments Limited

Sanofi

Qinetiq Limited

Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.

Purewick Corporation

Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy Gmbh

General Mills Marketing, Inc.

Gary Stacey

Alexander David Norman

Trevor John Beckett

Charles Frazer Kilby

Alistair Ward

Keith Marshall

John B Cline

Congyi Huang

Mark Rogers

Wai Ting Chan

Scott James Grubb

Peter Rae Peterson

Timothy Charles Frearson

Stanislaw Z Marczyk

Thomas Bates Jackson

Simon Roderick Grover

Jennifer Darmour

Alan Joel Levy

Christian Riva

John Blum

Iacopo Claudio Ferrari

Zita S Netzel

Kevin W Gelston

Richard M Estabrook

Patrick H Ruane

David Evans Roth

Ling-Kang Tong

Jenny E Hapgood

Ronald A Overbeck

Paul Gordon Wilkins

Austin Jason McKinnon

Ben Alan Askem

Peter David Cauwood

Ross Jones

Philip Walsh

Cormac O'Prey

Keith Paul Thompson

Alastair Mckean Willoughby

Scott William Gisler

Thomas J Novak

Andrew Murray Scholan

Kaushal Verma

Miles William Noel Hember

Tom Moy

Matthew James Herd

Philip C McNeill

Ross Packard

Shawn Gulla

Tinh Nguyen-Demary

Mark Ridley

Jennifer Caitlin Huot Carlson

Christopher Paul Richardson

Chris Covey

Barry Dobson

Chris Roach

Philip Davies

Rahul Khurana

Drew Davidock

Robert Nicholas Graf

David Stocks

Nicolas Alejandro Martinez

Camilla Schmitt

Steven T Jersey

Christopher John Fryer

Enrico Raffaele Cafaro

Michael Sack

Thomas Fedorka

Steven R Raphaelson

Ralph K Maider, Jr

Miles Hember

Kevin Sweeney

Paul A Johnson

Farideh Goudarzi

Brian B Johnson

Marc Angotti

J Corey Michal

Stephen Brown

Andrew Mark Lovatt

Derek Nicolini

Michael Schabbach

Sarah Jenny Collinson

David J Domingues

Iain Ansell

Philip Gowans

Julie Allen

David A Kirk

Ian Binder

Neil Pryor

John Cowan-Hughes

Steven Carl Mehta

Peter Peterson

Paul Antony Manning

Scott Kackman

Tinh Nguyen Demary

Steven Headen

Paul Mullen

Tej Paul Kaushal

John Peter Gillham

Samuel Edmund Whittome

John L Blum

Embodiments are directed to a multi-layered urine capture device suitable for collecting and transporting urine away from the body. The urine capture device can be positioned adjacent a urethra of a female user. The urine capture device can include a plurality of layers, for example, one or more fluid permeable layers, one or more absorbent layers, one or more hydrophobic layers, one or more wicking layers, one or more fluid impermeable layers, and other suitable layers.

Multi-layer urine capture device and related methods

A carbonated beverage maker includes a water reservoir, a carbon dioxide creation chamber, and a carbonation chamber. The water reservoir holds ice water and has a first impeller and a shroud surrounding the first impeller. The carbon dioxide creation chamber contains chemical elements and receives warm water. The chemical elements react with each other to create carbon dioxide when the warm water is introduced to the carbon dioxide creation chamber. The carbonation chamber is connected to the water reservoir and the carbon dioxide creation chamber. The carbonation chamber has a second impeller that includes a stem portion and blades. The stem portion and the blades define conduits therein. The blades create a low pressure region in a lower portion of the carbonation chamber such that carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide creation chamber flows through the conduits to the low pressure region.

Carbonation cup for carbonated beverage maker

A two-part bioactive agent delivery system, the system including a disposable part comprising an agent reservoir, a bolus chamber, the volume of the bolus chamber being less than the volume of the agent reservoir, an agent outlet, and a valve having a first position communicating the agent reservoir with the bolus chamber and a second position communicating the bolus chamber with the outlet; and a reusable part including a valve driver, a power source and control electronics, the control electronics being adapted to control the valve driver to actuate the valve to deliver bioactive agent from the agent reservoir to the agent outlet; the system further having a spring extending between the agent reservoir piston and a surface of the reusable part or of the disposable part to pressurize the agent reservoir when the spring is compressed and the agent reservoir contains a quantity of bioactive agent.

Drug delivery methods and systems

Systems and methods for mixing and/or reconstituting drugs are presented. A system may include an injection device, a vial, a needle, and a base station. The device has a chamber containing a first material. The vial has a chamber containing a second material. A drive unit of the base station moves the vial and/or the housing of the device relative to each other into an activated position. In the activated position, the needle is fluidly connected with the vial's chamber, and the drive unit is connected to a driver that moves the plunger in the axial direction of the device such that during fluid connection of the needle with the vial's chamber the first material is expelled from the device's chamber into the vial's chamber or the second material is expelled from the vial's chamber into the device's chamber.

Mixing and/or reconstitution system

Carbonated beverage makers, methods, and systems

A surgical stapling device comprises a housing and a plurality of cartridges that are coupled together to form a barrel that is rotatably supported within the housing. Each of the cartridges defines a plurality of staple pockets that support a plurality of staples. An anvil is pivotally coupled to the housing and is movable in relation to the barrel between an open position and a clamped position. A drive shaft extends through the housing and through the barrel and a pusher operatively connected to the drive shaft. The pusher is configured to translate through the barrel to eject the staples from the plurality of cartridges in response to actuation of the drive shaft. The barrel is positioned within the housing to align a first one of the plurality of cartridges with the anvil to eject the staples from the first cartridge upon movement of the pusher within the barrel through a first firing stroke and subsequently rotatable within the housing to align a second one of the plurality of cartridges with the anvil to eject the staples from the second cartridge upon movement of the pusher within the barrel through a second firing stroke.

Multi-fire lead screw stapling device

A controlled discharge ostomy appliance assembly comprises (i) a stoma seal that is self-urging with a dynamic damping characteristic that resists changes of seal volume, (ii) a press-fit coupling member displaceable from an unlocked position to a locked position as part of a press-fit process, and (iii) a single-use frangible portion. The assembly further includes a protector shield removably fastened to the appliance forming a combined assembly therewith. The protector shield comprises (i) a seal displacer manipulable for displacing the stoma seal to a non-operative position ready for fitting, (ii) a substantially rigid coupling member guard portion for protecting the state of the coupling member, and (iii) a bracing portion for bracing the single-use frangible portion.

Controlled discharge ostomy appliance and shield therefor

A surgical stapling device includes a housing and a plurality of cartridges that are coupled together to form a barrel that is rotatably supported within the housing. Each of the cartridges defines a plurality of staple pockets, each supporting a staple. An anvil is coupled to the housing and is movable in relation to the barrel between an open position and a clamped position. A guide shaft extends through the housing and through the barrel. The guide shaft supports a sled and a clamping member. The sled is configured to translate through the barrel to eject the staples from an active cartridge of the plurality of cartridges in response to actuation of a push rod. After firing staples from the active cartridge, the sled and the guide shaft are configured to index or rotate the barrel within the housing to move a second cartridge of the plurality of cartridges to the active position upon retraction and subsequent movement of the sled through a second firing stroke.

Multi-fire push rod stapling device

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

Systems, methods and cartridges for carbonating or otherwise dissolving gas in a precursor liquid, such as water, to form a beverage are disclosed. A gas source, which is used to generate gas that is dissolved into the precursor liquid, and/or a beverage medium, such as a powdered drink mix or liquid syrup, may be provided in a cartridge. 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.

Some embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a pump assembly comprising a voice coil, a magnet and a diaphragm, wherein the voice coil is configured to move the diaphragm to pump a fluid through the pump assembly in response to a drive signal applied to the voice coil. Some embodiments disclosed herein are directed to an apparatus for applying negative pressure to a wound comprising a source of negative pressure configured to be coupled to a dressing, the source of negative comprising a voice coil actuator and a diaphragm, and a controller configured to produce a drive signal for the voice coil actuator.

Negative pressure wound therapy apparatus

A labeling device for a syringe that includes a first labeling subsystem adapted to print a first label having machine readable information and a second labeling subsystem adapted to print a second label having human readable information is disclosed. The first labeling subsystem includes a label applicator adapted to automatically apply the first label to a portion of the syringe. The first labeling subsystem includes a syringe clamp assembly that securely holds the syringe while the label applicator automatically applies a first label to the syringe. The second labeling subsystem includes a removal device adapted to automatically remove a backing material from the second label.

Syringe labeling device

A proton beam therapy system with a cantilever gantry system and a moving floor system. The moving floor system includes a flexible moving floor and a track that is disposed vertically and affixed to an external wall. The track includes a lateral portion providing a linear lateral path for the part of the moving floor and non-lateral portions providing a vertical path for the excess of the floor. The non-lateral portions may be located above or below the lateral portion. During rotation of the cantilever gantry and when the beam nozzle is positioned under the patient table, an opening is maintained in the floor through which the beam nozzle protrudes. The opening follows the changing positions of the beam nozzle and moves in the floor plane in synchronization with the rotation of the gantry.

Moving floor for radiotherapy system with cantilever gantry assembly

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Gary Stacey