Ethicon, Gmbh

Agency for Science, Technology and Research

Depuy Mitek, Inc.

Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.

Indigo Medical, Inc.

Other

Ethicon Endo-surgery, Inc.

Cordis Corporation

Johnson and Johnson Vision Care, Inc.

Johnson & Johnson Gmbh

Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.

Advanced Technologies and Regenerative Medicine, LLC

Ethicon, Inc. - USA

Endo-surgery, Inc.

Kevin L Cooper

Angelo G Scopelianos

David W Overaker

Murty Narayan Vyakarnam

Rao S Bezwada

Sriram Natarajan

Shawn Thayer Huxel

Hong Yee Low

Chee Tiong Lim

Isabel Rodriguez

Dennis D Jamiolkowski

Joseph Henry Contiliano

Mark B Roller

Zhigang Li

Jo Hays

Jenny J Yuan

Audrey Yoke Yee Ho

Yufu Li

Joel S Rosenblatt

Qiang Zhang

Raymond S Shissias

Han Cui

Scott A Wadsworth

Noha Elmouelhi

Emma Kim Luong-Van

Janel E Young

Steven C Arnold

Chao C Chen

Joseph J Hammer

John McAllen, Iii

Zohra Fadli

Donald W Regula

J Jenny Yuan

Uri Herzberg

Jie Jenny Yuan

Randall Braxton Pugh

Hassan A Serhan

Thomas M DiMauro

Michael Andrew Slivka

Anna Gosiewska

Walter R Laredo

Daniel C Rosenman

Sridevi N Dhanaraj

Yue Zhou

Agnieszka Seyda

Chunlin Yang

Modesto Erneta

Iksoo Chun

Charles M Bartish

Sudhakar Kadiyala

Arindam Datta

Ronald W Marsh

Victor F Janas

David C Colter

Hugh D Newman, Jr

Kevor S TenHuisen

David Wasserman

Carrie H Fang

David A Dalessandro

Bradley Thomas Moore

Hal Brent Woodrow

Laurel L Rogers

Michael Francis Bregen

Kathryn Anne Rohr

Ankur S Kulshrestha

Mariann Sayer

Joseph R Thomas

Isabel Rodriquez

An orthopedic device for implanting between adjacent vertebrae comprising: an arcuate balloon and a hardenable material within said balloon. In some embodiments, the balloon has a footprint that substantially corresponds to a perimeter of a vertebral endplate. An inflatable device is inserted through a cannula into an intervertebral space and oriented so that, upon expansion, a natural angle between vertebrae will be at least partially restored. At least one component selected from the group consisting of a load-bearing component and an osteobiologic component is directed into the inflatable device through a fluid communication means.

In-situ formed intervertebral fusion device and method

An implant having an adhesive structure comprising a planar surface having two sides and rectangular cuboid-based protrusions having pyramidal tips extending from at least one of said sides, optionally having a porous basic supporting structure, and methods of making and using such implants.

Adhesive structure with tissue piercing protrusions on its surface

Methods of reducing device drag on implantable articles are disclosed herein. The methods include coating the contact surfaces of implantable articles with bioabsorbable lubricating coatings.

Bioabsorbable coatings of surgical devices

A polydioxanone film comprising substantially cylindrical polydioxanone pillars on at least one side thereof, said pillars having diameters from about 0.2 &#x3bc;m to about 3 &#x3bc;m, and heights from about 2 &#x3bc;m to about 20 &#x3bc;m from the surface of the film, a process for adsorbing proteins using the film and medical devices incorporating the film.

Super-hydrophilic structures

This invention discloses methods and apparatus for providing an ophthalmic lens with a textured pattern within an optic zone and an ophthalmic lens with a textured pattern within the optic zone.

Surface enhanced ophthalmic lens

Compositions and methods of using tissue engineered blood vessels to repair and regenerate blood vessels of patients with vascular disease are disclosed.

Tissue engineered blood vessel

A laminate and process of making the laminate is disclosed comprising: a surgical mesh having first and second surfaces; and an adhesive structure having adhesive and non-adhesive surfaces, wherein the non-adhesive surface of the adhesive structure is laminated to at least one of said first and second surfaces of said surgical mesh, and the adhesive surface of said adhesive structure has protrusions extending therefrom comprising a resin having a Young's modulus of greater than 17 MPa, which protrusions are of sufficiently low diameter to promote adhesion by increasing physical attractive forces between the adhesive structure and a target surface, as measured by shear adhesion.

Adhesive structure with stiff protrusions on adhesive surface

The present invention includes methods for the inhibition of post-operative adhesion formation between tissue surfaces in a body cavity having been subjected to a surgical procedure, which methods involve administering Tranilast, or an analog thereof, directly to tissue surfaces in the body cavity in amounts and under conditions effective to inhibit formation of adhesions, and to delivery vehicles and compositions suitable for use for local, non-systemic administration of a drug to the body and directly to tissue within a body cavity having been subjected to a surgical procedure.

Drug-enhanced adhesion prevention

A composite having a poly(ethylene-co-acrylic acid) coupling agent, a filler, and a biocompatible, biodegradable polymer matrix is disclosed. The composites are useful for biomedical applications such as, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and implantable medical devices.

Use of coupling agents to improve the interface in absorbable polymer composites

A blood clotting substrate and device which has a plurality of oxygen plasma-treated polypropylene pillars extending from the surface of a polypropylene film.

Blood clotting substrate and medical device

Synthetic polymer substrates comprising a hierarchical surface structure of multiple domes and multiple pillars on said domes, wherein said substrate is a synthetic polymer film, said domes have diameters in the range from about 5 &#x3bc;m to about 400 &#x3bc;m, heights in the range from about 2.5 &#x3bc;m and about 500 &#x3bc;m, and said pillars have diameters in the range from about 20 nm to about 5 &#x3bc;m and aspect ratios of from about 2 to about 50, and methods of making and using them.

Super-hydrophobic hierarchical structures, method of forming them and medical devices incorporating them

The present invention includes methods for the inhibition of post-operative adhesion formation between tissue surfaces in a body cavity having been subjected to a surgical procedure, which methods involve administering Pemirolast, or an analog thereof, directly to tissue surfaces in the body cavity in amounts and under conditions effective to inhibit formation of adhesions, and to delivery vehicles and compositions suitable for use for local, non-systemic administration of a drug to the body and directly to tissue within a body cavity having been subjected to a surgical procedure.

Bioabsorbable coatings for bioabsorbable implantable medical devices having dragging or engagement surfaces. The coatings on a surface of the devices reduce device drag.

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Warren, NJ, United States of America

Kevin L Cooper