Coopersurgical, Inc.

Covidien LP

Black Decker Inc.

Yale University

Contramed, LLC

Scimed Life Systems, Inc.

C. R. Bard, Inc.

Other

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.

Cook Medical Technologies LLC

Depuy Orthopaedics, Inc.

Surgiquest, Incorporated

Macroplata, Inc.

Cantramed, LLC

Patrick N Gutelius

Oleg Shikhman

Gregory Piskun

Paul C DiCesare

Jeffrey P Radziunas

Mark James DeBisschop

Bryan P deBlois

Christopher Austin Battles

Fabio Pinto

Ashley Holbrooks

Richard I Farrington

Derek R Kulakowski

Joseph M Gordon

Roy H Sullivan, Iii

Michael G Tal

John Anthony Triunfo

Gary C Helstern

John Glaberson

Pasquale Patrizio

Danial Paul Ferreira

Michael Gabriel Tal

Richard J Carbone

Stephen J Perry

Mark Monroe

Jeffrey H MacDonald

Mark DeBisschop

Paul H Johnson

Tara Pratap Ebsworth

Kristian J DiMatteo

Dan Rottenberg

Marc O Schurr

William Joseph Shaw

John A Griego

Gerhard F Buess

Robert B Devries

Bob H Katz

Khalil Roger Khouri

Edward Carlton Page

Michael Abrams

Anatoly Konik

Daniel Kalanovic

John Joseph Rego

Frank Rende

Marc Tassy, Jr

Omer L Shifflett, Jr

Daniel Paul Ferriera

Richard Barry Stevens

Ralph A Stearns

Peter M Wilson

David W Kaiser

Jack F Long

Joseph W Blake, Iii

Timothy G Vendrely

Patrick B Nolan

Paul Dicesare

James Raymond Parys

Sharon A Mulligan

Adrian Edward Park

John E Dimitriou

Daniel Vigliotti

Charles Francis Knapp

Donald Anthony Coelho, Jr

John Buonanno

James F Sciarra

Barry A Salky

Timothy Stanhope

Christopher Battles

Paul DeCesare

Sam Sackett

Jason Pancoast

Oleg Shikman

Donald A Coelho

Edward C Page

Gary Helstern

Leo R Mindick

Simon W H Conisbee

Sarthak Sawarkar

Mark J Debisschop

Paul Di Cesare

James R Parys

Simon WH Conisbee

Jeffrey Radziunas

Edward Page

A tray for securing an implantable device to a carrier member includes a slot configured to retain the carrier member and a receptacle adjacent the slot. The carrier member surrounds a shaft of the implantable device. The receptacle has a first width at a proximal end of the receptacle to receive first and second arms of the implantable device in an initial state in which the first and second arms extend substantially perpendicularly from the shaft. The receptacle has a second width at a distal end of the receptacle for receiving the first and second arms of the implantable device in a collapsed state in which the first and second arms are folded against the shaft such that the carrier member can be slid over the first and second arms to retain the first and second arms. The second width is less than the first width.

Packaging systems for implantable devices and related methods

A distal tip of a surgical tool includes a tip body and an expandable member that extends around the tip body. The tip body defines an end portion that defines an attachment surface and an elongate member that is configured to be inserted within a tubular shaft of the surgical tool. The elongate member also defines a recessed channel that terminates at the end portion. The expandable member is secured to the attachment surface with a chemical bond and is adjustable between an expanded configuration in which at least a portion of the expandable member extends radially outward from the tip body and a collapsed configuration in which at least the portion of the expandable member is oriented substantially parallel to the tip body.

Distal tips of surgical tools and related methods

A specimen processing system includes a plate for supporting a specimen system, wherein the specimen system includes a container and a specimen contained therein. The specimen processing system further includes a camera disposed above the plate and configured to generate images of the specimen system, a light source disposed beneath the plate for radiating light towards the plate, a light stop for blocking a portion of the light from reaching the specimen system to produce darkfield illumination of the specimen at the camera, and one or more processors electronically coupled to the camera and configured to track a position of the specimen within the specimen container during a specimen processing protocol based on the images.

Specimen processing systems and related methods

A specimen container configured for cryogenic processing of a specimen includes an elongate member, a first specimen processing medium contained within a lumen of the elongate member at a first position, a second specimen processing medium contained within the lumen of the elongate member at a second position located distal to the first position, and a barrier positioned between the first and second specimen processing mediums such that the first and second specimen processing mediums are spaced apart from each other within the lumen of the elongate member.

Specimen containers and related methods

A specimen carrier includes an elongate member defining an external sealing surface and a support surface upon which a specimen can be carried, the elongate member including a first material having a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The specimen carrier further includes a cap configured to be passed over a portion of the elongate member to close a region of the cap that surrounds the specimen when the cap is passed over the portion of the elongate member, the cap defining an internal sealing surface formed complementary to the external sealing surface, and the cap including a second material having a second coefficient of thermal expansion that is greater than the first coefficient of thermal expansion. When the elongate member and cap are together placed in a cooling substance, the internal sealing surface of the cap compresses the external sealing surface of the elongate member to form a hermetic seal.

Low temperature specimen carriers and related methods

An adapter assembly for connecting an end effector to a surgical instrument includes first and second drive assemblies configured for converting rotational motion into linear motion, and an actuation assembly. The second drive assembly includes a pair of push/pull cables for longitudinally advancing and retracting a drive member.

Adapter assembly for surgical device

An adapter assembly for connecting an end effector to a surgical instrument includes first, second, and third drive assemblies configured for converting rotational motion into linear motion. Each of the second and third drive assemblies includes a pair of rotatable drive shafts for longitudinally advancing and retracting respective second and third drive members.

The teachings provided herein are directed to a methods and devices for treating a hemorrhoid in a subject in a manner that produces substantially less post-procedural pain in the subject, the method minimizing or avoiding a removing or a necrosis of a rectal tissue fold.

Gentle hemorrhoid treatment offering a substantially painless healing

An apparatus and method for effecting at least one anatomical structure of a body including at least one first arrangement structured to be at least partially inserted into the body and including an opening, at least one third arrangement configured to increase and/or decrease a size of the opening by a motion thereof in a first direction, and at least one second arrangement coupled to the third arrangement(s). When the anatomical structure(s) is/are inserted in the opening and is pressed on by the second arrangement(s), a first motion of the third arrangement(s) toward the anatomical structure(s) in the first direction is reduced and/or terminated while a second motion of the second arrangement(s) either (i) remains at least approximately the same, and/or (ii) is reduced to a lesser extent than that of the first motion.

Apparatus for treating hemorrhoids

An apparatus for treating hemorrhoids including a first member having a proximal portion, a distal portion and a window formed therein to receive tissue. A third member is operably connected to the second member and movable between a first position and a second position, the third member having a clamping surface movable to the second position to provide a clamping force on tissue received through the window. Movement of the second member in a distal direction moves the third member in the distal direction toward the second position, the third member movable in a distal direction until such movement is limited due to contact and compression of tissue within the window, the second member continuing movement in the distal direction after movement of the third member in the distal direction has been limited.

Apparatus and method for effecting at least one anatomical structure

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Patrick N Gutelius