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Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Pharmatarget, Inc.

Medtronic Xomed, Inc.

Revent Medical, Inc.

Advanced Bio Surfaces, Inc.

Vertebral Technologies, Inc.

Harland Medical Systems, Inc.

Boston Scientific Corporation

Abs Corporation

Paul J Buscemi

Thomas J Holman

Fertac Bilge

Lixiao Wang

Donald F Palme, Ii

Darlene A Thometz

David H Donabedian

Elizabeth A Stejskal

Mark A Rydell

Christopher H Porter

Jeffrey C Felt

Alexander Arsenyev

Danney Langanki

Joseph Huebsch

Csaba Truckai

Edward M Gillis

Andrew W Buirge

Stanislao F Obino

Roger Noel Hastings

John H Shadduck

Keith G Lurie

Andrew I Poutiatine

Kurt D Krueger

Paul H Burmeister

Sew-Wah Tay

David Benditt

Gregory Carlson

Bradley C Linden

Susan M Shoemaker

Paul C Slaikeu

Laurie E Lynch

Paula Bushendorf

Bruce H Rau

Erin S Doyle

Robert Arzbaecher

Stan Obino

Brian Jackson

Kristin M Mortenson

The present invention relates to coatings for devices such as medical devices that are useful for coating a variety of different types of material surfaces, including polymer and metal surfaces. The present invention also includes the method of using the coated device and methods to make the coated device and coating.

Coating composition comprised of a hydrophilic crosslinker, a hydrophobic crosslinker and optionally a hydrogel and methods of making and using the same

A method of treating an airway disorder includes placing an implant in a patient's tongue, wherein the implant has first and second end portions that attach to tissue, and a tensioned medial portion between the first and second ends. The medial portion is configured to apply a pressure of less than a predetermined amount. Device systems associated with such methods are also provided.

Systems and methods for treatment of sleep apnea

An implant for treating an obstructive airway disorder includes an elongate implant body configured for implanting in airway-interface tissue. At least a portion of the elongate body carries a light transmission material for permitting light transmission therein. Systems and methods of treating an airway disorder including implanting an implant in an airway-interface tissue are also provided.

Methods of maintaining airway patency in an airway of a patient. A method includes the steps of wrapping a bioerodable material at least partway around an axis to create a wound bioerodable implant, and coupling two points on the bioerodable material to each other. The invention also provides systems for maintaining airway patency in an airway of a patient that may be used with the methods.

A patient's obstructive sleep apnea is treated by placing a fibrosis-inducing agent is placed within the tongue in a region extending substantially from a hyoid bone rearward toward a back surface of the tongue and upwardly along the back wall toward a free end of a soft palate of the patient.

Stiffening procedure for sleep apnea

A patient's obstructive sleep apnea is treated by identifying a patient with sleep apnea attributable at least in part to movement of a base of a tongue of the patient toward a pharyngeal wall of the patient. The tongue is stiffened by an implant sized to be placed within the tongue. A distal portion of the implant is sized to extend within the tongue from a first end near a mandibular-geniohyoid interface to a second end near a base of the tongue. A proximal portion is attached to the first end and adapted to be secured to a jaw bone of the patient following a period of healing after placement of the implant in the tongue.

Tongue implant

A method and system for the creation or modification of the wear surface of orthopedic joints, involving the preparation and use of one or more partially or fully preformed and procured components, adapted for insertion and placement into the body and at the joint site. In a preferred embodiment, component(s) can be partially cured and generally formed ex vivo and further and further formed in vivo at the joint site to enhance conformance and improve long term performance. In another embodiment, a preformed balloon or composite material can be inserted into the joint site and filled with a flowable biomaterial in situ to conform to the joint site. In yet another embodiment, the preformed component(s) can be fully cured and formed ex vivo and optionally further fitted and secured at the joint site. Preformed components can be sufficiently pliant to permit insertion through a minimally invasive portal, yet resilient enough to substantially assume, or tend towards, the desired form in vivo with additional forming there as needed.

Method and system for mammalian joint resurfacing

A patient's obstructive sleep apnea is treated by identifying a patient with sleep apnea attributable at least in part to movement of a base of a tongue of said patient toward a pharyngeal wall of said patient. The method includes identifying a region in the tongue extending from a mandibular-geniohyoid interface to the base of the tongue and stiffening a tissue of the tongue throughout the identified region.

Tongue implant for sleep apnea

A stent includes a main body of a generally tubular shape for insertion into a lumen of a vessel of a living being. The tubular main body includes a substantially biodegradable matrix having collagen IV and laminin that enclose voids within the matrix. The tubular main body also includes a biodegradable strengthening material in contact with the matrix to strengthen the matrix. The tubular main body is essentially saturated with drugs.

Biodegradable drug delivery vascular stent

Percutaneous treatment of aortic aneurysms and like vascular anomalies by an apparatus and method wherein the apparatus is delivered via catheter and comprises a sleeve with at least one peripheral conduit which is caused to assume an expanded, rigid configuration by the introduction of a chemical or mechanical hardening means, whereby the sleeve is caused to assume an open cylindrical configuration for fluid flow therethrough.

Endovascular apparatus

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Long Lake, MN, United States of America

Paul J Buscemi