Stryker Corporation

Covidien LP

Target Therapeutics, Inc.

Stryker Nv Operations Limited

Scimed Life Systems, Inc.

Stryker European Holdings I LLC

Amendia, Inc.

Baxano, Inc.

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Baxano Surgical, Inc.

Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation

Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC

Other

Tyco Healthcare Group LP

Spinal Elements, Inc.

Michael P Wallace

E Skott Greenhalgh

Robert J Garabedian

Jeffery Lee Bleich

Roy Leguidleguid

David S Utley

Brent C Gerberding

Chad C Roue

Ronald Leguidleguid

Gregory Paul Schmitz

Robert M Abrams

Winnie Chung

Delilah Yin Hui

Nestor C Cantorna

Tri D Tran

Mehran Bashiri

Gregory B Arcenio

Harold F Carrison

Joseph Charles Eder

Richard O Murphy

Clifford Teoh

Kim D Nguyen

Hanh Ho

My Doan

Michael Sheinberg

Amie R Borgstrom

James Shapiro

Francisco S Villar

Gavin P Wallace

Vahid Saadat

Michael Austin Dotsey

Erik T Engelson

Marc-Alan Levine

Paul C Slaikeu

Pete Phong Pham

Nestor Aganon

Nga Thi Van

Cong Thach

Winnie Tang

Jayson Delos Santos

Michael Hogendijk

James J Barry

Liem Ho

Jefferey C Bleam

Robert A Ganz

Eric C Miller

Zoran Milijasevic

David Stephen Celermajer

Nathan Every

James Carl Makous

Anthony John Ujhazy

Johnathon Choi

Douglas Kelly

Clifford Van

Jarred Shein

Mary M Chen

David Deaton

Christopher K Huynh

Bryan Dale Knodel

David Barry

Stephen Christopher Porter

Like Que

Christopher G Ken

Robert Hergenrother

Jimmy D Dao

Thach Cao

John De Csepel

Christopher D Summa

Robert James Boock

Timothy S Winkle

David A Gyorke

Michael Turovskiy

Andrew Miller

Ronnie I Mimran

Amol Parkar

Benjamin Kao-Shing Sun

Gary Heit

Dewlilah Yin Hui

Vaso-occlusive apparatuses, including implants, and methods of using them to treat aneurysms. The vaso-occlusive implants described herein include one or more soft and expandable braided member coupled to a pushable member such as a coil that maybe inserted and retrieved from within an aneurism using a delivery catheter as well as a friction element between the soft braided member and the coil. The friction element allows the relatively soft and elongate implant to be pushed out of a cannula without binding up within the cannula.

Vaso-occlusive devices including a friction element

Mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses, and particularly knitted rolling tube mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses configured to have improved tracking for delivery through tortious vessels are described herein. Also described herein are methods of removing clots using a mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses in which the clot is larger than the tractor portion of the mechanical thrombectomy apparatus.

Inverting thrombectomy apparatuses having enhanced tracking

Methods and apparatuses for cleaning and/or drying a subject's ears and/or nose may include an inverting tubular swab region. These apparatuses may remove debris, such as ear wax & skin debris from the ear canal. These apparatuses are safer than traditional cotton swab. Also described herein are apparatuses configured for use in the nose, which may remove mucus (e.g., snot) from the nasal and sinus regions. These apparatuses may be configured for use with infants and toddlers as an alternative to air aspiration bulb/tool. Also described herein are methods of using any of these apparatuses as well as methods of making and packaging them.

Inverting sleeve apparatuses and method for drying and cleaning the ear or nose

Mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses including an inverting, rolling conveyor region ('tractor') at the distal end that are configured to grab and remove thrombus material. In particular, described herein are mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses that are adapted to prevent premature deployment of the tractor, e.g., by including a tractor hold (e.g., a housing, a lock, a clamp, etc.) or the like to secure the outer end of the tractor against and/or relative to the elongate inversion support.

Pre-loaded inverting tractor thrombectomy apparatuses and methods

A mechanical thrombectomy apparatus for removing a clot from a vessel includes an elongate inversion support catheter having a distal end opening, an elongate puller extending within the support catheter, and a knitted tractor tube extending over an outer surface of the support catheter, inverting into the distal end opening of the support catheter, and attached to the elongate puller at a first end within the support catheter, wherein the portion of the knitted tractor tube extending over the support catheter comprises a wire forming a helical spiral of alternating teardrop shaped-links each having a rounded apex, wherein each link is connected to two adjacent links so that the apex of each link is on an outward-facing surface of the tractor tube, wherein the links flare outward from an outer wall of the support catheter when the puller is pulled proximally within the support catheter.

Inverting thrombectomy apparatuses and methods

Devices, systems, and methods for reducing stress on a blood vessel are disclosed herein. A damping device () configured in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include an anchoring member () coupled to a flexible, compliant damping member () including a generally tubular sidewall having an outer surface (), an inner surface () defining a lumen configured to direct blood flow, a first end portion () and a second end portion (), and a damping region () between the first and second end portions (). The inner and outer surfaces () of the damping member () can be spaced apart by a distance that is greater at the damping region () than at either of the first or second end portions (). When blood flows through the damping member () during systole, the damping member () absorbs a portion of the pulsatile energy of the blood, thereby reducing a magnitude of the pulse pressure transmitted to a portion of the blood vessel distal to the damping device ().

Implantable damping devices for treating dementia and associated systems and methods of use

Methods and apparatuses for removing material (e.g., clot) from within a body, including inverting thrombectomy apparatuses. These methods and apparatuses may include methods and apparatuses for reusing portion of the devices, method and apparatuses for loading and reloading the inverting thrombectomy apparatuses, and methods and apparatuses for improving and enhancing the ability of the inverting thrombectomy apparatuses to remove clot.

Thrombectomy apparatuses and methods

Mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses (devices, systems, etc.) and methods for deploying and/or positioning them within a vessel and/or using them and/or removing a thrombus, e.g., clot, from within a vessel using them.

Inverting mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses

Inverting tube thrombectomy apparatus for removing clot that are configured to prevent compression of the apparatus that may separate the distal end of the apparatus from the clot and may make it difficult to advance the apparatus to engage with the clot, particularly in a tortious vessel. The apparatuses and methods of using them described herein may be adapted to prevent tension in the flexible tube that is rolling and inverting over the distal end of the inversion support catheter when capturing a clot. Also described herein are inverting tube thrombectomy apparatus that are configured to reload either automatically or manually within the vessel to capture additional clot material.

Inverting thrombectomy apparatuses and methods of use

Described herein are methods using mechanical inverting tube apparatuses to remove clot (e.g., thrombectomy), the apparatuses including an inversion support catheter having an expandable funnel-shaped distal end, and a flexible tube that can be continuously rolled over the funnel-shaped distal end and invert into the inner lumen of the inversion support catheter.

A vaso-occlusion system for occluding an aneurysm includes a delivery catheter having a delivery lumen extending therethrough, a pusher member at least partially extending through the delivery lumen, and a vaso-occlusive device loaded within the delivery lumen, the vaso-occlusive device comprising an expandable braid formed out of a plurality of elongate braid filaments, the elongate braid elements having respective proximal end portions that are formed into a flexible transition section having a proximal end portion attached to a distal end of the pusher member and/or to an elongate central member coupled to, and extending distally of, the pusher member.

Vaso-occlusive devices

Vaso-occlusive apparatuses, including implants, and methods of using them to treat aneurysms. For example, described herein are expandable vaso-occlusive implants that include one or more soft and expandable braided member coupled to a pushable member such as a coil that maybe inserted and retrieved from within an aneurism using a delivery catheter. In particular, the expandable implants described herein are configured to allow relatively soft and elongate implants to be pushed out of a cannula without binding up within the cannula.

Vaso-occlusive devices and methods of use

Self-rolling mechanical apparatuses for removing material from a body lumen include a tractor tube portion that rolls and inverts over itself in a continuous motion, tractor-like, to draw material into the tractor tube, wherein the tractor tube rolls over itself without requiring any additional internal support at the distal-facing region of the tractor tube.

Self-rolling apparatuses and methods for removing material from a body lumen

Rolling tractor tube mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses that may be deployed from out of a catheter in situ are described herein. These apparatuses may be delivered out of a catheter from a collapsed delivery configuration within the catheter to a deployed configuration out of the catheter, in which the same catheter is re-inserted between a tubular tractor and an elongate puller. In particular, any of these methods and apparatuses may be adapted to work with a tractor tube having an open end that is biased open, including using an annular bias.

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Pleasanton, CA, United States of America

Michael P Wallace