Medtronic, Inc.

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Medtronic Vascular, Inc.

Boston Scientific Corporation

Jay T Rassat

Derek C Sutermeister

Jeffrey J Clayton

Paul B Aamodt

Michael J Nidelkoff

James M Anderson

Gregory N Nesseth

Kristin M Johnson

Jonathan E Baxter

Niall F Duffy

David M Farascioni

Benjamin Y Arcand

Ana Menk

Aran Murray

Nathan Knutson

Stephen A Howard

Megan L Platner

Adam Fitzgerald

Nicholas J Haupt

Steven Joseph May

Seth M Humphrys

Kevin A Knutsen

Varun Bhatia

Sheila A Mullen

Tracee E Eidenschink

Michael Scott Williams

Zhongping C Yang

Ronald A Drake

Michael Wayne Davis

Terrell M Williams

Karl Alan Jagger

Michael P Meyer

Clifford Teoh

Tracee E J Eidenschink

John B Blix

Douglas S Hine

Joel M Wasdyke

Richard J Olson

Gregory Edwin Mirigian

Brian P Colin

Kenneth M Merdan

Nathan A Grenz

Douglas R Saholt

Angela Kornkven Volk

Mel R Beulke

Ryan P Lahm

Alan Cheng

Daniel W Celotta

Kirsten Carroll

Craig C Belton

Michael L Freiborg

Juan Meng

Brian K Jablonski

Kimberly A Ganzel

Steven E Peterson

Dan Wefel

Kendall Emfield

Hongyang Lu

Niall Duffy

Michael Williams

Timothy Ehr

A hemostasis device includes a valve, the valve being sized and configured to be disposed entirely within a handle of medical device, the valve including a rim, the rim be sized and configured to seal with a lumen of the handle of the medical device.

Hemostasis valve orientation relative to the fluid space in a introducer sheath

Implantable apparatus includes two or more alignable marker elements, and systems and methods for manufacturing such implantable apparatus, and methods to utilize such implantable apparatus. For example, the implantable apparatus may include a first alignable marker element and a second alignable marker element that may be used to ensure proper alignment with a target site.

Lead construction including alignable marker elements

A prolapse prevention device formed by a continuous wire-like structure having a first end and a second end disconnected from each other. The continuous wire-like structure is substantially straight in a delivery configuration. The prolapse prevention device in a deployed configuration includes a centering ring of the continuous wire-like structure configured to seat adjacent to and upstream of an annulus of a heart valve in situ, a vertical support of the continuous wire-like structure which extends from the centering ring and includes an apex configured to seat against a roof of an atrium in situ, and a leaflet backstop of the continuous wire-like structure extending radially inward from the centering ring and configured to contact at least at least a first leaflet of the heart valve in situ to exert a pressure in a downstream direction on the first leaflet to prevent the first leaflet from prolapsing into the atrium.

Prolapse prevention device and methods of use thereof

Systems and methods for manufacturing elongate medical devices including internal components embedded between multiple jacket layers. The system including a heating cartridge, a heating element, a filament handling system, a substrate handling system, and a controller to feed and melt each of the filaments for forming the multiple jacket layers. The system may include a single heating cartridge adapted to make multiple passes to form a first and second jacket or multiple heating cartridges that sequentially form a first and second jacket.

3D printed medical devices including internal shaping

A prolapse prevention device formed by a continuous wire-like structure having a first end and a second end disconnected from each other. The continuous wire-like structure of the prolapse prevention device is substantially straight in a delivery configuration. The prolapse prevention device in a deployed configuration includes a centering ring of the continuous wire-like structure configured to seat adjacent to and upstream of an annulus of a heart valve in situ, a vertical support of the continuous wire-like structure which extends from the centering ring and includes an apex configured to seat against a roof of an atrium in situ, and a leaflet backstop of the continuous wire-like structure extending radially inward from the centering ring and configured to contact at least at least a first leaflet of the heart valve in situ to exert a pressure in a downstream direction on the first leaflet to prevent the first leaflet from prolapsing into the atrium.

Systems and methods for manufacturing an elongate medical device including various surface features. The system including a heating cartridge, a heating element, a filament handling system, a substrate handling system, a controller, and one or more additional components adapted to form the surface features on the medical device. The heating element melts a filament material within the heating cartridge to form a jacket of the medical device and the one or more additional components engages the outer surface of the jacket to create surface features.

Systems and methods for manufacturing 3D printed medical devices

A hemostasis device includes a valve, the valve being sized and configured to be disposed entirely within a handle of a medical device, the valve including a rim, the rim being sized and configured to seal with a lumen of the handle of the medical device.

An example catheter includes a handle assembly having a control member, an elongate body, a pull wire, and at least one radiopaque marker. The elongate body defines a lumen configured to receive a medical electrical lead including at least one electrode array. The elongate body includes a proximal portion coupled to the handle assembly and a distal portion that includes an articulating segment and a preformed curve segment. The at least one radiopaque marker is positioned on the distal portion. The pull wire extends from the control member and is anchored to the elongate body distal to the articulating segment such that actuation of the control member controllably bends the articulating segment in a first curve in a first geometric plane. The preformed curve segment defines a second curve in a second geometric plane different from the first geometric plane.

Out of plane deflectable catheters

Disclosed herein are detachment mechanisms for vaso-occlusive devices that allow for rapid operator-controlled release of the vaso-occlusive device into the selected site. Also disclosed are vaso-occlusive assemblies comprising these detachment mechanisms and methods of using these detachment mechanisms and vaso-occlusive assemblies.

Detachment mechanisms for implantable devices

A mandrel for use in a battery assembly may include a positive mandrel portion and a negative mandrel portion. Each of the mandrel portions may include a connector element coupling region and an electrode coupling region. The connector element coupling region may be configured to be coupled to a connector element and the electrode coupling region may be configured to be coupled to an electrode.

Mandrel for electrode assemblies

An electrode assembly for use in a battery may include a mandrel and one or more insulative portions. The insulative portions may be formed about and may extend from one or more end regions of a battery mandrel. Further, insulative portions may electrically insulate one or more elements of the electrode assembly from each other.

Methods for electrode assemblies including at least one insulative portion

Electrode assemblies including a mandrel and at least one insulative portion

An apparatus for delivery through a vessel including an extensor segment and first and second anchor segments positioned on either side of the extensor segment, wherein each segment has associated with it an individually-addressable electro-active polymer.

Electrically actuated annelid

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Otsego, MN, United States of America

Jay T Rassat