California Institute of Technology

Sonendo, Inc.

Glaukos Corporation

Orqis Medical Corporation

Dose Medical Corporation

University of California

Toofon, Inc.

Other

Foldax, Inc.

Thoratec Corporation

Dentatek Corporation

Morteza Gharib

Francisco Pereira

Bjarne Bergheim

Emilio C Graff

Derek Rinderknecht

Arash Kheradvar

Olav B Bergheim

Jian Lu

David S Haffner

Mehrzad Khakpour

Niema Mohammed Pahlevan

Michele Pham

Joshua Adams

Richard S Tebbs

Hosheng Tu

Alexei Harvard

Adrianus Indrat Aria

Erik Hars

Gregory T Smedley

Barbara A Niksch

Scott S Hsieh

David Jeon

Elijah Bodhi Sansom

Karl Stocks

Lance Doherty

Steven F Bolling

Anthony J Viole

Mary Lynn Gaddis

Gabriel Aldea

Adrianus I Aria

Thomas W Burns

Richard A Hill

Peyman Tavallali

Frederic Taugwalder

Anna Hickerson

Dominique Claire Fourguette

Darius Modarress

Bradley Lyon

Michael V Ol

Scott E Fraser

Richard L Lindstrom

Daniel W Wilson

Jason G Beith

Flavio Noca

Gregory S Kelley

Masoud Beizai

Siamak Forouhar

Jijie Zhou

Sean A Mendoza

Stephanie Rider

Adi Wijaya Gani

Anna Iwaniec

Cong Wang

Christopher J Dougherty

Thomas Yizhao Hou

Daniel M Schwartz

Garrett Dallas Johnson

Mikhail G Shapiro

Mladen Barbic

Isabelle M Darolles

Soon-Jo Chung

Marie E Csete

Anna Grosberg

Richard E Muller

Guruswami Ravichandran

Michael Ortiz

Praveen De Silva

Richmond A Wolf

Dana Dabiri

Xichen Shi

Francis P Maguire

Kyunam Kim

Brad Sharp

Mary Dickinson

Darius Modares

Azin Fahimi

Reza Nemovi

Matthew Hosein Tasooji

Stefanie Heyden

Derek Rinderknect

Laurence Loumes

Luciana Cendon

Arian Soroush Forouhar

Abbas Nasiraei Moghaddam

John A Meier

Idit Avrahami

Michele Milano

Mostafa Gharib

Arian Farouhar

Marcel Veismann

Morgane Grivel

Michael Liebling

Darius Modaress

Olav G Bergheim

Amir Emadi

Kevin A Mendoza

Nicholas T Rinella

Salar Rahili

In some embodiments, a multi-modal robot can be capable of aerial mobility and ground mobility, and can switch between configuration. The multi-modal robot can include a chassis, and a leg attached to the chassis. The leg can include a frontal hip joint. The frontal hip joint can rotate around a frontal hip axis of rotation. The frontal hip axis of rotation can be parallel to a longitudinal axis of the chassis. The leg can further include a sagittal hip joint, wherein the sagittal hip joint is coupled to the first distal end of a first link. The sagittal hip joint can rotate around a sagittal hip axis of rotation. The leg can include a wheel. The wheel can be configured to rotate around a wheel axis of rotation. The leg can further include a propeller. The propeller can be co-axial with the wheel.

Multi-modal mobility unmanned vehicle

Improved prosthetic valves, their methods of manufacture, and systems and devices for manufacturing the valves are described. The prosthetic valves can be configured for transcatheter implantation. The prosthetic valves can have artificial leaflets. The prosthetic valves can be manufactured in numerous ways, such as by polymeric dipping processes and/or electrospinning. Sponge-like polymers for valves and other medical devices are also disclosed.

Systems, devices, and methods relating to the manufacture of implantable prosthetic valves

Systems and methods for using a liquid jet apparatus for dental treatments are disclosed. In one implementation, the liquid jet apparatus may include a handpiece configured to deliver a high velocity liquid jet to a desired location in the mouth of a patient. The handpiece may include a positioning member having a channel through or along which the jet can propagate. The positioning member may have a distal end portion configured to be at least partially disposed in a pulp cavity, canal space, or opening in the tooth under treatment. During operation, the jet may impact an impingement surface of the distal end portion of the positioning member and be deflected as a spray through one or more openings in the distal end portion. The liquid jet apparatus may be used for root canal treatments.

Liquid jet apparatus and methods for dental treatments

A system of a multi-rotor aircraft that capitalizes on the advantages of fixed wing elements combined with rotary wing structures. The fixed wing elements can help to generate lift once the aircraft is airborne and can thus reduce the need for larger lifting rotors which can allow for longer flight times and distances. Additionally, the systems disclosed herein take advantage of a partial in-wing configuration with a number of rotors to reduce the overall footprint of the vehicle while maintaining the flight efficiency that comes with combining features of fixed and rotary wing elements, and increasing operator safety by shrouding rotating parts. The unique configurations allow for a decoupling of the pitch, yaw and roll authority to reduce the complexity in control systems and improve the flight efficiency of the aircraft. Additional configurations implement the use of smaller thrust rotors that can be used to generate thrust as well as control yaw and thus counteract any remaining unbalanced torque.

Systems and methods for efficient cruise and hover in VTOL

Examples of apparatus, methods, and compositions for endodontic treatments are described. The apparatus can include a fluid platform configured to substantially retain fluid in a tooth chamber during treatment. The fluid platform can help maintain fluid circulation in the tooth chamber as fluid flows into and out of the tooth chamber. The apparatus can also include a pressure wave generator configured to generate acoustic waves that can be used for cleaning root canals and tooth surfaces in the tooth chamber. Examples of pressure wave generators include a liquid jet, an electromagnetic energy delivery device, and an ultrasonic device. The fluid can include antiseptic or antibacterial solutions to assist in tooth cleaning. The fluid may be degassed to have a reduced dissolved gas content (compared to non-degassed fluids used in endodontic treatments), which may improve the effectiveness of the pressure wave generation or the cleaning.

Apparatus, methods, and compositions for endodontic treatments

A system configured to be at least partially implanted along an aorta includes an inelastic, static member and a pinching member. The pinching member is configured to receive an activation signal at an activation rate and in response to the activation signal, repeatedly compress the aorta at the second location at the activation rate to pump fluid within the aorta in a desired pumping direction. The system is configured to selectively control wave reflections in order to achieve both improved wave dynamics to reduce cardiac load and increased (or at least non-diminished) blood flow to targeted organs within the cardiovascular system.

Vessel compression with hemodynamic wave reflection to control vascular wave dynamics and enhance blood flow

A system and method for controlling a multi-rotor aircraft that implements the unconventional use of an odd number of rotors. The odd or auxiliary rotor is designed to be smaller in diameter than the remaining main rotors and accordingly generates a smaller unbalanced torque and pitch on the aircraft. Additional configurations implement the use of smaller thrust rotors that can be used to generate thrust as well as control yaw and thus counteract any remaining unbalanced torque from the odd auxiliary rotor.

Systems for flight control on a multi-rotor aircraft

A non-invasive and convenient method and apparatus for approximation of left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP) can be used in both hospital/clinic environments and nursing home or home environments. The method and apparatus use non-invasive sensors and a new 'cardiac triangle' computational method to obtain an approximation of LVEDP. The computational method uses hemodynamic and electrocardiogram (ECG) waveforms as input, which can be collected by a portable device or devices.

Method and apparatus for left ventricular end diastolic pressure measurement

Apparatus and methods for endodontic treatment of teeth provide effective cleaning of organic material (such as pulp and diseased tissue) from the root canal system. In an embodiment, a compressor system generates high pressure liquid (e.g., water) that flows through an orifice to produce a high-velocity collimated jet of liquid. The high-velocity jet is directed toward a surface of a tooth, for example, an exposed dentinal surface, and impingement of the jet onto the surface generates an acoustic wave that propagates throughout the tooth. The acoustic wave effectively detaches organic material from dentinal surfaces and tubules. The detached organic material is flushed from the root canal system by the liquid jet and/or by additional irrigation.

Apparatus and methods for treating root canals of teeth

Disclosed are example embodiments of methods and systems for inducing drug to thoroughly mix in a patient's vitreous humor. One of the systems includes: a heat transfer pad that transfer heat to or from the eyeball; and a control module electronically coupled to the heat transfer pad for controlling one or more heat transfer elements disposed thereon.

Systems and methods for drug delivery

Systems, methods and apparatuses are provided for the measurement of intraocular pressure. These systems, methods and apparatuses can include an imaging apparatus for capturing two- or three-dimensional images or video of a patient's eye. An image reconstruction based on the captured images or video can be performed, and measurements can be taken of blood vessel features, curvature metrics, or distances between point pairs. In some embodiments, blood pressure measurements can also be taken synchronously with the captured images or video. From these measurements, a relationship between certain medical condition (e.g., elevated intraocular pressure, heart arrhythmia) and the extracted metrics can be established.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for ocular measurements

A system and method for controlling a multi-rotor aircraft that implements the unconventional use of different sized rotors. The different sized rotors than the main rotors tend to generate an unbalanced torque and pitch on the aircraft that effectively decouples the pitch and yaw control from the main rotors. The atypical design tends to lend itself to improved control capabilities and simplified control systems. Additional configurations implement the use of smaller thrust rotors that can be used to generate thrust as well as control yaw and thus counteract any remaining unbalanced torque from the odd auxiliary rotor.

Systems and methods for yaw-torque reduction on a multi-rotor aircraft

Devices, systems and methods are described for non-invasively monitoring and/or measuring or estimating intraocular pressure. Medical or diagnostic methods embodiments described herein include high resolution imaging of the sclera of one or both of a patient's eyes using digital photography or videography. The hardware employed may be for two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) imaging.

Non-invasive measurement of intraocular pressure

A system and method for improving the flight control and efficiency of an aerial vehicle. Many embodiments are directed to a rotor-shroud assembly system where a plurality of rotor blades are connected to the internal side of a shroud and are set up to pivot through the use of a pitching mechanism. The entire assembly is configured to rotate when attached to a motor.

Rotating shroud for rotator blade systems

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Morteza Gharib