Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Quanam Medical Corporation

Corgentech, Inc.

Pomm Plastics, Co

Eoplex Technologies, Inc.

Paul Cherkas

Charles S Taylor

Dwight P Morejohn

John J Frantzen

Robert Adam Geshlider

Michael Froix

Michael J Mann

Leonard Nanis

Robert Eury

Irina D Pomerantseva

Angelica Alvarado

Hilary J Hampton

Linh A Dinh

Bhupendra Shah

Yosef D Boaz

William B Tiffany

Sudha Thakur

Beren Correa

Michael Boynoff

Bhupendra O Shah

Sue W Vican

Eric Reeser

The invention is a composite pole with an integral mandrel therein and methods of making the same. A preferred embodiment is a fiberglass reinforced resin composite pole such as a utility pole or a lighting pole. The integral mandrel is preferably an expanded plastic foam such as expanded polystyrene. The integral mandrel is contoured to be in the desired inside configuration of the composite pole and fiber reinforced composite naterial is applied to the mandrel. The pole is used with the mandrel remaining therein, thus strengthening the pole. Passages may be placed into the mandrel for routing conduits and pipes as desired.

Composite poles with an integral mandrel and methods of making the same

A system is provided for high volume print-forming of structures made up of multiple separate layers. A support bed is provided which has multiple steps arrayed thereon at different heights. Substrate blocks rest upon each of the steps. A printing process is utilized to print material from which the structures are to be formed down onto the substrate blocks. This printing process prints different layers onto each of the substrate blocks. The substrate blocks then move to a different step on the support bed and the printing process is repeated. Each support block has a partial structure thereon which receives its next successive layer in each printing cycle until the partial structure becomes a completed structure by having each of its layers sequentially printed thereon. Subsystems are provided for moving the substrate blocks upon the support bed and for properly holding and aligning substrate blocks upon the support bed.

High volume print-forming system

The invention provides a method and an apparatus for treating a tissue, such as a blood vessel, with therapeutic liquids, such as solutions of genes encoding therapeutic proteins.

Method and apparatus for tissue treatment

A radially-expandable stent for insertion into a lumen is described. The stent is composed of a radially-expandable support stent and a polymer tubular member co-axially disposed over the support stent. Tubular end sleeves are disposed around the first and second ends of the polymer-surrounded support stent to secure the tubular member and to provide other improvements.

Intravascular stent having a coaxial polymer member and end sleeves

A method and system for making a three dimensional product wherein the size and shape of a plurality of cross-sectional segments of the three dimensional object are determined which when assembled together in a particular sequence form the desired three dimensional shape. Thin layers of material in the shape of each of the cross-sectional segments are applied in the particular sequence in which they form the three dimensional object. The application of each of the layers is much like a lithographic printing process in that a resin may be applied by a roller in the shape of the cross-sectional segments.

Formation of three dimensional objects and assemblies

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Paul Cherkas