Emboline, Inc.

Applied Materials, Inc.

Masao Drexel

Amir Belson

Scott M Russell

Stephen J Kleshinski

Steven C Shannon

Imad Yousif

Roger Alan Lindley

Ying Rui

James A Stinnett

Ying Xiao

A prosthetic heart valve delivery catheter includes an embolic filter to provide integrated embolic protection to inhibit the release of emboli into the aorta, the aortic arch or branch vessels, and other vasculature during transvascular heart valve replacement procedures. The embolic filter will usually be fixedly or movably attached to a shaft of the delivery catheter proximal of the prosthetic heart valve.

Catheter with integrated embolic protection device

A method and apparatus for confining a plasma are provided herein. In one embodiment, an apparatus for confining a plasma includes a substrate support and a magnetic field forming device for forming a magnetic field proximate a boundary between a first region disposed at least above the substrate support, where a plasma is to be formed, and a second region, where the plasma is to be selectively restricted. The magnetic field has b-field components perpendicular to a direction of desired plasma confinement that selectively restrict movement of charged species of the plasma from the first region to the second region dependent upon the process conditions used to form the plasma.

Magnetic confinement of a plasma

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Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

Masao Drexel