Icu Medical Inc.

Coalign Innovations, Inc.

Howmedica Osteonics Corporation

Covidien LP

Revision Optics, Inc.

Flex Partners, Inc.

Other

Reva Medical, Inc.

Ciari Guitars, Inc.

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals LP

Vasogen Ireland Limited

Thermoscan Inc.

Xpandortho, Inc.

Philip Simpson

David G Matsuura

Walter Dean Gillespie

John E Ashley

George Albert Mansfield

Rudy A Pretti

Murali P Kadaba

Thomas Grotz

Damien J Shulock

Adam Ariely

Ned Schneider

Gregg Edmond Plambeck

Jeffrey J Loos

Eric V Schmid

Andrew Morris

Jonathan D Spangler

Robert F Eisele

Steven C Howard

Orlando M Padilla

John Dang Nguyen

James Coleman Lee

Evan Epstein

Alok Nigam

Darryl David D'Lima

Dennis Crandall

Stephen Sosnowski

Belinko Matsuura

Joseph Marrocco

Adam Hattan

Scott Clifford Harris

Matthew Thomas Yurek

Thomas R Jackson

Ross Tsukashima

Joan Zeltinger

John T Kilcoyne

Clifford W Colwell

Mark J Mooradian

Donald K Brandom

Keith Allen Esser

George M Johnson

Taras Worona

Daniel M Chambers

Tyler John Holschlag

Daniel Kincade

James Lee

Robert Krensky

George A Mansfield, Jr

Daniel Moore

Gregory M Smith

Joseph Anthony DiPari

John Grant

Phillip A Estepa

Nicholas Anderson

Ivanhoe Chaput

Helen Anderson

Reynaldo B Halili, Jr

Victor Wei-Chung Chang

Jennifer M Simpson

Deborah A Simpson

Chris K Salvino

Jim Trinchera

James A Trinchera

Mark P Costa

Hao Chen

David A R Kanbergs

Kathleen Chancellor-Maddison

Robert I Gelb

Roy Zhao

Bernard C B Lim

A foldable stringed instrument having a neck and/or body that may assume a reduced profile by folding an upper neck portion away from the playing position through the use of a translating bridge assembly and a translating truss assembly, wherein the foldable stringed instrument is capable of housing or otherwise being coupled to any of a variety of electronics or electrical components (e.g. a smart phone or tablet computer) having one or more applications (apps) for driving the operation, functionality and/or effects associated with the foldable stringed instrument.

Foldable stringed instrument

Devices for loading intravascular treatment devices into a sheath and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. A sheathing tool may include, for example, a first channel extending to a first opening, the first channel configured to receive a treatment device in a constrained state therethrough. The treatment device may include an elongated member and a first element and a second element at a distal region of the elongated member. The second channel may extend to a second opening, the second opening surrounded by a sidewall and configured to receive the treatment device in the constrained state therethrough, wherein the second opening is spaced apart from the first opening by a gap, and wherein a length of the gap is great enough to allow the first element to self-expand over the sidewall while the second element generally maintains its diameter in the constrained state while crossing the gap.

Tools for sheathing treatment devices and associated systems and methods

A medical device delivery system can be used to advance a medical device to a target area within a patient's vasculature. The system can comprise a catheter, a support sheath, and a core member coupled to a medical device. The core member can be used to longitudinally advanced or retracting medical device within a lumen of the support sheath. The support sheath can be advanced within the catheter until a distal end of the support sheath contacts or abuts a reduced diameter section of the catheter lumen. Thereafter, the core member can be advanced into the catheter lumen toward the target area.

Medical device delivery system

Disclosed herein is a valve assembly comprising a male luer end portion and a female luer end portion and a passage for the transfer of fluids extending between the male and female luer end portions, valve means movable between a first position, in which the passage is closed, and a second position, in which the passage is open, biasing means for biasing the valve means toward the first position, and actuating means extending into the male luer end portion and coupled to the valve means to actuate the valve means when a female luer end portion of a medical accessory is engaged with the male luer end portion.

Medical connector with internal valve member movable within male projection

A spinal implant which is configured to be deployed between adjacent vertebral bodies. The implant has at least one extendable support element with a retracted configuration to facilitate deployment of the implant and an extended configuration so as to expand the implant and effectively distract the disc space, stabilize the motion segments and eliminate pathologic spine motion. The implant has a minimal dimension in its unexpanded state that is smaller than the dimensions of the neuroforamen through which it typically passes to be deployed within the intervertebral space. The implant is provided with a locking system having a plurality of linked locking elements that work in unison to lock the implant in an extended configuration. Bone engaging anchors also may be provided to ensure secure positioning.

Adjustable distraction cage with linked locking mechanisms

Capping and cleansing devices for capping and cleansing needlefree connectors, particularly luer access devices such as needlefree vascular access connectors, and methods for using said devices, are described. The devices of the invention each include interconnected inner and outer housings that a user can transition between a locked or engaged position to allow the inner and outer housings to rotate in unison and an unlocked or disengaged position that allows the outer housing to rotate independently of the inner housing, and a compressible cleansing matrix secured in the devices (preferably in a well in the outer housing).

Capping and cleansing devices for needlefree vascular access connectors

An insertion handle for medical implants includes a handle with an elongate shaft extending therefrom and connection means for the implant disposed at the end of the shaft opposite the handle. The connection means includes a pivotable attachment for the implant that is controlled remotely from the handle. Both angle of the implant with respect to the handle and shaft as well as the attachment may be separately controlled and adjusted. Remote angular adjustment facilitates insertion of implants in to small surgical sites because the orientation of the implant may be repeatedly, remotely adjusted as the implant is inserted. Connectors may also be provided at the engagement surface between the handle and implant in order to provide communication with the implant or surgical site. The connectors also may serve as torque bearing members to avoid the need for separate torque bearing means such as keyways and the like.

Insertion handle for surgical implants

Disclosed herein are systems, devices and methods for processing tissue, such as autologous tissue. Implementations of a Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF) system are described that can isolate and wash harvested cells contained within various tissues, such as isolate and wash stem cells from fat tissue. The SVF system can minimize the handling and transferring of tissue and fluids, including minimizing the number of human interventions and manipulations required throughout processing. The SVF system can ensure sterility of processed tissue and harvested cells, as well as significantly reduce cost and time associated with the processing.

Stromal vascular fraction processing devices and methods

Described herein include embodiments of devices, systems and methods for measuring drill depth, such as drill depths in bone material. For example, embodiments of drill depth measuring systems and associated methods are described. Some drill depth measuring systems can utilize at least resistance, capacitance, optical and/or acoustic sensing features for assisting the drill depth measuring system with determining drill depths and types of tissue being drilled into. Various other related features, devices and methods are also described.

Drill depth measuring devices and methods

A joint balancing insert with sensors and an actuated mechanism is disclosed. The joint balancing insert is used to balance a joint during arthroplasty surgery, as the sensors provide force, position and angular data relating to the movement of the joint, while the actuated mechanism allows for highly accurate and dynamic adjustments of the joint based on the data from the sensors. Various configurations of actuated mechanisms and sensors may be implemented in the insert to provide for manual or real time control of the insert, and customized interfaces are provided for visualized feedback of adjustments. Sensor data may also be collected and compared with expected or preferred data sets to provide adjustment recommendations and achieve better outcomes based on historical data.

Actuated positioning device for arthroplasty and methods of use

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Escondido, CA, United States of America

Philip Simpson