Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

H.b. Fuller Licensing & Financing Inc.

H.b. Fuller Company

Bolt Medical, Inc.

Boston Scientific Corporation

Jeffrey S Lindquist

Daniel James Horn

Derek C Sutermeister

Cass Alexander Hanson

Scott Schewe

Robert Squire

Martin R Willard

Janelle C Cameron

Patrick A Haverkost

Eugene R Simmons

James M Anderson

John Jianhua Chen

Adam Joseph Royer

Kevin Silberg

Daniel T Quillin

Nao Pao Lee

Ken Xiao Kang Zhang

David Parsons

Christopher E Olson

Jan Weber

Lixiao Wang

Hong Cao

Peter G Edelman

Paul James Miller

Carolyn A Fischer

Huisun Wang

Thomas J Holman

Richard Charles Gunderson

Timothy A Ostroot

Mark S Kroll

Steve A Fox

David B Malcolm

Ajay Gupta

Afsar Ali

Irina Nazarova

Kenneth R Larson

Douglas Adelbert Devens, Jr

Richard Dunn

Horng-Ban Lin

Nam H Hoang

Nicholas C Lehman

Scott Fisher

Kent David Harrison

Zaya Tun

Victor Leo Schoenle

Raj Subramaniam

Joel N Groff

Thomas F Kauffman

Joel R Munsinger

Katherine M Prindle

Ying Xiong

Daniel Lee Krautkremer

Margarita Acevedo

Lisa L Ryan

Susan T Oeltjen

Kathryn A Coleman

Kevin J Sweeney

James R Farmer

Freddie C Carter

David W Meister

Mark W Boden

Deepak R Parikh

Roger W McGowan

Daniel Frank Massimini

Andrew J Campbell

Steven L Kangas

Jaydeep Yeshwant Kokate

Frederick H Strickler

David Raab

Eric A Schultheis

Thomas H Quinn

Gary Pederson

Ralph J Barry, Jr

Jan D Seppala

Joseph Alan Kronstedt

Jeffrey Steven Fuller

Derek Kenneth Larson

Kevin W McKay

Joseph Connolly

Mark Steven Smith

Keith C Knutson

Thomas P Jancaric

Joseph Zielinski

Beth M Eichler-Johnson

Katherine Routh

Ken Zhang

Kevin Martin

Pieter Spitael

Michael S Keehr

Daryl Lee Martin

Ausberto Reyes Pineda

Kyle Allen McCleary

Chay Nil

Daisuke Asai

Yoshihiro Kodama

Michele C Tessmer

James P Szymanski

Dave Parsons

Pao Nao Lee

Robert N Squire

Medical devices and methods for making and using medical devices are disclosed. An example medical device may include a catheter. The catheter may include a catheter shaft and a balloon. The balloon may comprise a cone portion, a waist portion, and a body portion. A fiber braid may be disposed along the balloon. An inner surface of the waist portion may be thermally bonded to an outer surface of the catheter shaft and an inner surface of the fiber braid may be adhesively bonded to an outer surface of the waist portion.

Medical balloon

A catheter system () for treating a treatment site () within or adjacent to the vessel wall of a blood vessel (), or the heart valve, includes an energy source (), a balloon (), an energy guide (A), and a balloon integrity protection system (). The energy source () generates energy. The balloon () is positionable substantially adjacent to the treatment site (). The balloon () has a balloon wall () that defines a balloon interior (). The balloon () is configured to retain a balloon fluid () within the balloon interior (). The energy guide (A) is configured to receive energy from the energy source () and guide the energy into the balloon interior () so that plasma is formed in the balloon fluid () within the balloon interior (). The balloon integrity protection system () is operatively coupled to the balloon (). The balloon integrity protection system () is configured to inhibit rupture of the balloon () due to the plasma formed in the balloon fluid () within the balloon interior () during use of the catheter system ().

System and method for maintaining balloon integrity within intravascular lithotripsy device with plasma generator

A balloon for renal nerve modulation is disclosed. The balloon may include a polymer material forming a balloon wall having an outer surface and flexible circuits comprising a base selectively adhered to the exterior surface of the balloon wall. Adhesive is selectively applied to the outer surface of the balloon, to the flexible circuit or to both such that the adhesive is selectively deposited on the at least a portion of the at least two pads or on the at least a portion of the at least two pads and to a portion of the distal spline. The portion of the at least two pads or the portion of the at least two pads and a portion of the distal spline are adhered to the outer surface of the balloon and a remainder of the flexible circuit moves freely with respect to the outer surface of the balloon.

Flexible circuit having improved adhesion to a renal nerve modulation balloon

Medical devices for sympathetic nerve modulation are disclosed. An example medical device for sympathetic nerve modulation may include a catheter shaft having a distal region. An expandable member may be coupled to the distal region. A flexible circuit assembly may be attached to the expandable member. The flexible circuit assembly may include a first electrode strip, a second electrode strip, and a sensor strip disposed between the first electrode strip and the second electrode strip. The first electrode strip may include a first electrode. The second electrode strip may include a second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode may define a pair of bipolar electrodes.

Medical devices with flexible circuit assemblies

Medical devices and methods for making and using medical devices are disclosed. An example medical device may include a catheter shaft. An expandable member may be coupled to the catheter shaft. The expandable member may be capable of shifting between a folded configuration and an expanded configuration. A plurality of flexible elements may be attached to the expandable member, with a plurality of electrode assemblies disposed on the flexible elements. The flexible elements may have a grooved substrate.

Medical device balloon

Medical devices for renal nerve ablation are disclosed. An example medical device for renal nerve ablation may include a catheter shaft having a distal region. The device may include an expandable member coupled to the distal region, a flexible circuit assembly coupled to the expandable member, and a pressure sensor disposed along the expandable member and positioned adjacent to the flexible circuit assembly. The flexible circuit assembly may include one or more pairs of bipolar electrodes and a temperature sensor.

Flexible renal nerve ablation devices and related methods of use and manufacture

A medical device for sympathetic nerve ablation may include a catheter shaft, an expandable member disposed on or coupled to the catheter shaft, and a plurality of elongate electrode assemblies each constructed as a flexible circuit having a plurality of layers. The expandable member may be configured to shift between an unexpanded configuration and an expanded configuration. The plurality of electrode assemblies may be disposed on an outer surface of the expandable member. Each of the plurality of electrode assemblies may include enhanced tear resistance properties such as through the inclusion of a reinforcement structure with one or more of the layers of the electrode assemblies.

Tear resistant flex circuit assembly

A composite expandable medical balloon comprising a base balloon, the base balloon comprising a coextrusion, the coextrusion comprising an inner layer formed from an elastomeric polymer and an outer layer formed from a thermoplastic polymer a fiber braid disposed along the base balloon, the fiber braid comprising at least one polymeric fiber disposed over the base balloon, wherein the base balloon is designed to exhibit minimal delamination between the inner layer the outer layer of the base balloon, and methods of making the same.

Composite expandable medical balloons and methods for forming composite expandable medical balloons are disclosed. An example composite expandable medical balloon may include a base balloon. A fiber braid may be disposed along the base balloon. The base balloon may have a first length prior to heat sterilization of the composite expandable medical balloon, and a second length after heat sterilization of the composite expandable medical balloon. The second length may be at least 95% of the first length.

Medical devices and methods for forming the medical devices are disclosed in the present application. In one illustrative example an occlusion balloon comprises an outer balloon member, and an inner balloon member having an inner wall and an outer wall and extending through at least a portion of the outer balloon member. In at least some examples, when forces acting on the inner wall of the inner balloon member equal forces acting on the outer wall of the inner balloon member, the inner balloon member defines a lumen.

Occlusion device

Methods and devices (e.g., for nerve modulation) may include at least one thermistor and a balloon having a balloon wall. In one or more embodiments, the medical device is configured and arranged to transfer heat to the medical device surroundings. In one or more embodiments, the at least one thermistor is a portion of a thermistor array disposed on the balloon wall, the thermistor array including a plurality of thermistors and operatively engaged with a source of electric current. In one or more embodiments, the device includes at least one flexible circuit mounted on the outer surface of the expandable balloon, the at least one flexible circuit including at least one temperature-sensing device that includes at least one thermistor, wherein at least a portion of a conductive layer is electronically coupled to the thermistor, with the proviso that no electrode is associated with the conductive layer.

Devices and methods for therapeutic heat treatment

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Maple Grove, MN, United States of America

Jeffrey S Lindquist