Covidien LP

Covidien Ag

Tyco Healthcare Group LP

Vivant Medical, Inc.

Chamartin Laboratories LLC

Kyle R Rick

Joseph D Brannan

Mani N Prakash

Darion R Peterson

Francesca Rossetto

Steven W Kim

James E Dunning

Kristin D Johnson

Joseph A Paulus

Christopher A Valentine

Manoja D Weiss

Mika N Sinanan

Joshua C Glazier

Steven Paul Buysse

David Nichols Heard

Kenlyn S Bonn

David Abraham Schechter

William N Gregg

Peter Donald Gadsby

Jeffrey L Eggleston

David Gresback

Stanley Humphries

Nahum Goldberg

Cristiano Dalvi

Kate LeeAnn Bechtel

Aaron John Zilkie

Sean Merritt

Brian Kinting Shiu

Guomin Yu

Andrew George Rickman

Jeffrey L Jensen

Hooman Abediasl

Renata Melamud Berger

Kaylen J Haley

Evan Einbender Aamodt

Breanna Stachowski

Scott F Alexander

Benjamin Ver Steeg

Richard Grote

Alexander Gondarenko

Lok Man Chu

Alexander Fast

Vafa Jamali

Roozbeh Parsa

Adam Scofield

Ferdyan Lesmana

Todd Andrew Newhouse

Patrick John Castagna

Suresh Chengalva

Jeffrey Driscoll

Craig Gadd

Christopher Alan Harris

Haydn Frederick Jones

Vishwas Kulkarni

Adrian Williamson Bahani

Jennifer Lynn Corso

A wearable device. In some embodiments, the wearable device includes: a sensing module; and a strap attached to the sensing module, the wearable device being configured to be worn by a user, with a lower surface of the sensing module in contact with the user, the strap extending over an upper surface of the sensing module.

Wearable device

A microwave antenna assembly is disclosed. The antenna assembly includes a feedline having an inner conductor, an outer conductor and an inner insulator disposed therebetween. A radiating portion is also included having an unbalanced dipole antenna including a proximal portion and a distal portion that are of different lengths. The proximal portion includes at least a portion of the inner conductor and the inner insulator and the distal portion includes a conductive member.

Choked microwave antenna

A system and method for supplying microwave energy to tissue for microwave therapy includes an electrosurgical generator having an output for coupling to a surgical instrument. The electrosurgical generator includes a microwave energy source and a controller for controlling the operation of the electrosurgical generator. The surgical instrument, coupled to the electrosurgical generator, includes a microwave antenna for delivering microwave energy from the microwave energy source. The controller of the electrosurgical generator is operable for causing the electrosurgical generator to apply at least two pulses of microwave energy.

Reflective power monitoring for microwave applications

A medical device for treating and analyzing tissue includes a plasma applicator having a housing. The housing includes a substantially tubular shape and defines a lumen therethrough. The lumen is in fluid communication with an ionizable media source configured to supply ionizable media thereto. The applicator also includes one or more electrodes coupled to the housing. The electrodes are adapted to couple to a power source configured to energize the electrodes to ignite the ionizable media to form a plasma plume for treating tissue. The device also includes an effluent-collection attachment coupled to the plasma applicator. The effluent-collection attachment is configured to collect a portion of a plasma effluent.

System and method for sensing tissue characteristics

Choked dielectric loaded tip dipole microwave antenna

Disclosed is a system and method for enabling user preview and control of the size and shape of an electromagnetic energy field used in a surgical procedure. The disclosed system includes a selectively activatable source of microwave surgical energy in the range of about 900 mHz to about 5 gHz in operable communication with a graphical user interface and a database. The database is populated with data corresponding to the various surgical probes, such as microwave ablation antenna probes, that may include a probe identifier, the probe diameter, operational frequency of the probe, ablation length of the probe, ablation diameter of the probe, a temporal coefficient, a shape metric, and the like. The probe data is graphically presented on the graphical user interface where the surgeon may interactively view and select an appropriate surgical probe. Three-dimensional views of the probe(s) may be presented allowing the surgeon to interactively rotate the displayed image.

Microwave ablation system with user-controlled ablation size and method of use

A microwave energy delivery and measurement system, including a microwave generator and a microwave energy delivery device, for performing medical procedures, and a remote power coupler system for measuring one or more parameters of the microwave energy signal including a remote RF sensor housed in the microwave energy delivery device and a power coupler processer coupled with the processing unit of the microwave energy delivery device.

Microwave ablation generator control system

An electrosurgical apparatus is provided. The electrosurgical apparatus includes a cannula insertable into a patient and positionable adjacent abnormal tissue. The electrosurgical apparatus includes a microwave antenna that includes a distal end having a radiating section receivable within the cannula and positionable within a patient adjacent abnormal tissue. The microwave antenna is adapted to connect to a source of electrosurgical energy for transmitting electrosurgical energy to the radiating section. A portion of the radiating section substantially encompasses a portion of the abnormal tissue and may be configured to apply pressure thereto. The microwave antenna is actuated to electrocautery treat tissue to reduce blood flow to the abnormal tissue.

Apparatus and method of use for treating blood vessels

Microwave ablation system and user-controlled ablation size and method of use

A method of deploying an antenna of an ablation device includes the step of placing an introducing member relative to tissue. The introducing member is disposed on a distal end of a handle member. The method also includes the steps of advancing an antenna distally through the handle member and at least partially through the introducer and rotating the handle member about the longitudinal axis thereof relative to the antenna. The method also includes the step of moving the handle member proximally along the longitudinal axis thereof to retract the introducer proximally relative to the antenna such that the antenna is at least partially deployed relative to the introducer to treat tissue.

System and method of deploying an antenna assembly

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Boulder, CO, United States of America

Kyle R Rick