Medtronic Vascular, Inc.

Transvascular, Inc.

Insulet Corporation

Lumen Devices, LLC

Mentor Corporation

Neograft Technologies, Inc.

Other

Securus Medical Group, Inc.

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

John T Garibotto

J Christopher Flaherty

Joshua Makower

Jason Brian Whitt

Timothy R Machold

Philip Christopher Evard

Patrick Edward Macaulay

William J Gorman

Michael L Friedman

John N Irwin, Iii

Russell J Redmond

Claude A Vidal

Thomas Banks

Alan Robert Selfridge

Timothy J Wood

David R Tholfsen

Marc Jensen

John Y Chang

Steven W Kim

Mohammed S El-Kurdi

Lorenzo Soletti

Jon McGrath

John R Bussiere

Theodore Charles Lamson

Alex T Roth

Christopher C Gregory

R Maxwell Flaherty

David Paul Chastain

Derek Dwayne Mahoney

Kerry Dennis O'Mara

Richard Morgan Moroney, Iii

Kevin Guido Schmid

Margaret W Tumas

Matthew D Abelson

Steven Diianni

Stephen A Bollinger

Motoya Hayase

David Wagner

Patick Gutelius

John N Irwin

John Michael Margicin

Gaurav Rohatgi

Steven Dilanni

Robert L Guest

John J Irwin

David McDonald

Marc Anderson

Patrick Edward Macauley

David Zeller

Brian James

Christopher Carter Gregory

Derek D Mahoney

Dennis O'mara

David P Chastain

Christopher J Flaherty

Steven T Auger

Jason Daigle

Christopher Flaherty

John Michael c/oSarnoff Corp Margicin

A medical appliance for the treatment of one or more sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient, the appliance comprising: a biasing member for inserting behind and exerting a force upon the patient's soft palate or tongue, wherein the biasing member is inserted in a reduced or minimized form and then expanded or firms once in place to exert the force. The appliance may be nasally inserted or be placed through the mouth. In a particular configuration, both the soft palate and tongue are biased to prevent obstruction of the flow of air in the nasopharyngeal airway.

Devices, systems and methods for the treatment of sleep apnea

A medical apparatus for the treatment of one or more sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient is provided. The apparatus has an elongate member with a middle portion, a first fixation element and a second fixation element. The middle portion applies a force to a segment of a patient's airway.

Apparatus and methods for the treatment of sleep apnea

A graft device is provided comprising a flow conduit and a surrounding covering. The graft device can connect a first body space and a second body space. In one embodiment, the flow conduit is a vein, such as a harvested saphenous vein, useful as an arterial graft, for example and without limitation, in a coronary artery bypass procedure. Also provided are methods of preparing a graft device and connecting the graft device between a first body space and a second body space, such as the aorta and a location on an occluded coronary artery, distal to the occlusion.

Graft devices and methods of fabrication

A temperature measurement probe for a patient is provided. The probe includes a sensor assembly and produces a temperature map comprising temperature information for multiple patient locations.

Ablation and temperature measurement devices

The inventions described in this patent application include i) a torqueable introducer sheath which is useable in conjunction with a transvascular passageway forming catheter to effect precise rotational control of the catheter; ii) an anchorable guide catheter which is useable in conjunction with an intravascular imaging catheter and a transvascular passageway-forming catheter to effect precise positioning and aiming of the passageway-forming catheter; iii) a passageway forming catheter having a torqueable proximal portion to facilitate precise rotational positioning of the distal portion of the catheter; iv) a deflectable-tipped passageway forming catheter, v) various markers and other apparatus useable in conjunction with any of the passageway-forming catheters to facilitate precise positioning and aiming of the catheter, and vi) an apparatus which may be formed within a catheter to prevent a member, apparatus of flow of material from being inadvertently advanced through a lumen of the catheter.

Catheters and related devices for forming passageways between blood vessels or other anatomical structures

A medical apparatus for the treatment of one or more sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient is provided. The medical apparatus has an elongate member with a middle portion, a first fixation element and a second fixation element. The middle portion applies a force to a segment of a patient's airway.

A system of catheter devices and methods for forming channels or passageways between a luminal anatomical structure (e.g., a blood vessel) and a target location (e.g., another blood vessel, an organ, a mass of tissue, etc.) for the purpose of rerouting blood flow or for delivering a substance or instrument, etc. to the target location.

Catheters, systems and methods for percutaneous in situ arterio-venous bypass

A graft device is provided comprising a flow conduit and a surrounding covering. The graft device is for connecting between a first body space and a second body space. In one embodiment, the flow conduit is a vein, such as a harvested saphenous vein, useful as an arterial graft, for example and without limitation, in a coronary artery bypass procedure. Also provided are methods of preparing a graft device and connecting the graft between a first body space and a second body space, such as the aorta and a location on an occluded coronary artery, distal to the occlusion.

Methods and apparatus for occluding blood flow within a blood vessel. In a first series of embodiments, the present invention comprises a plurality of embolic devices deployable through the lumen of a conventional catheter such that when deployed, said embolic devices remain resident and occlude blood flow at a specific site within the lumen of the blood vessel. Such embolic devices comprise either mechanical embolic devices that become embedded within or compress against the lumen of the vessel or chemical vaso-occlusive agents that seal off blood flow at a given site. A second embodiment of the present invention comprises utilization of a vacuum/cauterizing device capable of sucking in the lumen of the vessel about the device to maintain the vessel in a closed condition where there is then applied a sufficient amount of energy to cause the tissue collapsed about the device to denature into a closure. In a third series of embodiments, the present invention comprises the combination of an embolization facilitator coupled with the application of an energy force to form an intraluminal closure at a specified site within a vessel.

Methods and apparatus for blocking flow through blood vessel

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John T Garibotto