Vaxxas Pty Limited

William A. Cook Australia Pty. Ltd.

Cook Incorporated

Cook Urological, Inc.

Cook Medical Technologies LLC

Michael Carl Junger

Christopher Flaim

David Sean O'Brien

Sasikaran Kandasamy

Neil Harris

Xi Wang

Cambell Smyth

Chris Townsend

Pierre Armand Vincent Lemaire

Allan Joseph Hilling Smith

Andrew Robert Leslie Stevenson

Anton Lee-See

James Macnaughtan

Jason William Spittle

Tiffany Burleigh

Caitlin Vizcay-Wilson

Michael William Ford

Carolina Gutierrez

Jeremy Thompson

Kim John Giliam

Katie L Paten

Andrew RL Stevenson

The present invention relates to devices and methods for coating surfaces including surfaces of medical devices, in particular the coating of microprojections on microprojection arrays. The present invention also relates to print head devices and their manufacture and to methods of using the print head devices for manufacturing articles such as microprojection arrays as well as to coating the surfaces of microprojection arrays. The present invention also relates to high throughput printing devices that utilize the print heads of the present invention.

Device and method for coating surfaces

The present invention relates to devices and methods for detecting the amount (degree, extent) of material coating a medical device or substrate, in particular the present invention relates to devices and methods for detecting the amount of vaccine material coating a microarray patch.

Quality control of substrate coatings

The present invention relates to applicators for administering microprojection arrays to skin and methods of administering microprojection arrays. One embodiment of the present invention is a device for applying a microprojection array to a skin surface comprising: a) a housing having an upper and lower portion and having an internal face and an external face wherein the external face a flexible section that when collapsed actuates the device; b) a patch guide having a proximal and distal end wherein the proximal end interfaces with the internal face of the housing such that when the flexible section of the external face of the housing is collapsed the patch guide is forced downward; c) a cantilevered ring having an opening through which the patch guide passes and wherein the cantilevered ring is activated by the patch guide; d) a microprojection array that is contacted by the cantilevered ring when the ring is activated; e) a skin contact membrane; and f) a skin contact applicator base that attaches to the housing. A further embodiment of the present invention also includes two or more cantilevered rings having a first and a last ring, wherein the cantilevered rings are stacked such that when the device is actuated the first ring is fired such that each successive ring is contacted by the preceding ring.

Microprojection array applicator and method

A surgical clamp assemblyfor use in keyhole surgery is disclosed. The assembly includes: a surgical clampfor forming a clamping loop around a bodily lumen. The clamp includes: a strap, the strap including an elongate grippable portion; and a headincluding a gripper, the gripper having an open mouth, the open mouth shaped to allow lateral entry of the strap into the gripper so as to form the clamping loop. The assembly further includes: a deployment tubefor deploying the clamp through a keyhole; and a manipulatorfor manipulating the clamp through the deployment tube. The elongate body is biased to move from a constrained generally straight condition within the deployment tube to an unrestrained curled condition within a patient. A surgical clamp assembly, that includes a surgical clamp is also disclosed.

Surgical clamp apparatus and a surgical clamp for use in keyhole surgery

An aspiration and flushing needle assembly having separable flushing and aspiration assemblies. The flushing assembly () has a flushing needle () extending from a handle () and a flushing fluid line () which can be connected to a source of flushing liquid. The aspiration assembly () has an aspiration needle () with a connector () which connects into the rear of the handle and an aspiration line () which can be connected to an aspiration arrangement. The flushing and aspiration needle assemblies are joined for use with the aspiration needle extending coaxially within the flushing needle to the distal end () of the flushing needle.

Aspiration and flushing needle

A mould assembly () and a method of use in injection moulding of a part having a functional cavity therein. The mould assembly has a recess () to receive a hollow tubular insert () intended to be placed in the mould assembly before the injection of a mouldable material into the cavity and to remain in the part after moulding. A gas supply arrangement supplies pressurised gas to the hollow tubular insert at a selected stage during the injection process whereby to form the functional cavity in the part.

Injection moulding of functional cavities

An ovum collection device () includes a handle () and a collection needle () extending from the handle. The collection needle has a sharpened tip () for insertion into a follicle of an ovary. A collection duct () in fluid communication with the collection needle extends from the handle to a collection bottle (). A heating arrangement () is used to maintain the collection needle at a selected temperature to prevent damage to an oocyte. The heating arrangement may be associated with a needle guide () on an ultrasonic probe such as a transvaginal ultrasonic probe ().

Heated ovum pick up needle

A bung for an aspiration assembly sample collection tube, the bung () has a top surface (), a tapered side surface () for fitting into the sample tube and a lower surface (). First and second apertures () extend through the bung from the top surface to the bottom surface, the first aperture () being for an inlet tubing and the second aperture () being for an aspiration tubing, the first aperture has a recess () in the lower surface of the bung. This recess is adapted to sealingly receive a supply nozzle of a flushing fluid supply device such as a syringe so that in use flushing fluid may be directed through the inlet tubing.

Bung for an aspiration assembly

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Michael Carl Junger