The Spectranetics Corporation

Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.

Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Hoya Corporation

Zpower, LLC

Accelerate Giagnostics, Inc.

Phillip Charles Halbert

Robert Carver

Peter Wilbur Gleason

Weston H Lee

Brian E Kagarise

Bruce A Hoo

Christopher Allen Wilson

Austin Micheil Ashby

Kevin David Marshall

Matthew Ketterer

Solene Bourgeois

Josh Harrison

William James Evans

Matthew P Presta

Ronaldo F Carreon

Kenneth P Grace

William L Richards

Wayne A Showalter

Steven W Metzger

Kurt Reinhardt

Andrew Ghusson

Paul Richards

Matthew Mette

Jasmin Cote

Oleg Gusyatin

Alena Shamsheyeva

Landon Prisbrey

Ken Hance

Meghan Mensack

Carlos Michel

Dulini Gamage

Ben Turng

Kyle A Koning

John Anthony Scholl

Jim Deacon

Takashi Ichinohe

Troy W Renken

Elke Allers

Thomas McNicholas

Jonathan M Fern

Mark P Jesser

Kenneth Robert Hance

Christopher James Glaister

Christopher A Wilson

Solene M Bourgeois

Jonathan C Hsieh

Solène Bourgeois

Devices for removing implanted objects from body vessels are provided. A device includes a sheath assembly having a cutting tip. The cutting tip includes a cutting surface that is adapted to cut tissue coupled to an implanted object as the cutting tip rotates. The sheath assembly further includes an outer shield carried outside of the cutting tip. The outer shield includes a distal opening, and the outer shield is translatable relative to the cutting tip from a first position to a second position and vice versa. In the first position the cutting surface of the cutting tip is disposed within the outer shield, and in the second position the cutting tip extends through the distal opening and the cutting surface is at least partially disposed outside of the outer shield.

Multiple configuration surgical cutting device

A system for automated microorganism identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing comprising a reagent cartridge, a reagent stage, a cassette, a cassette, stage, a pipettor assembly, an optical detection system, and a controller is disclosed. The system is designed to dynamically adjust motor idle torque to control heat load and employs a fast focus process for determining the true focus position of an individual microorganism. The system also may quantify the relative abundance of viable microorganisms in a sample using dynamic dilution, and facilitate growth of microorganisms in customized media for rapid, accurate antimicrobial susceptibility testing.

Instrument and system for rapid microorganism identification and antimicrobial agent susceptibility testing

Medical device handle

An ocular implant insertion apparatus that includes a plunger driver that is not manually powered and ocular implant insertion methods. There are a variety of instances where an ocular implant is inserted into the anterior chamber, posterior chamber, cornea, vitreous space and/or other portion of an eye. Exemplary ocular implants include, but are not limited to, lenses, capsular tension rings, ocular prosthesis and lamellar transplants.

Ocular implant insertion apparatus and methods

Methods and devices for separating an implanted object, such as a pacemaker lead, from tissue surrounding such object in a patient's vasculature system. Specifically, the surgical device includes a handle, an elongate sheath and a circular cutting blade that extends from the distal end of the sheath upon actuating the handle. The circular cutting blade is configured to engage the tissue surrounding an implanted lead and cut such tissue in a coring fashion as the surgical device translates along the length of the lead, thereby allowing the lead, as well as any tissue remaining attached to the lead, to enter the device's elongate shaft. The surgical device has a barrel cam cylinder in the handle assembly that imparts rotation of the blade and a separate cam mechanism in the tip of outer sheath assembly that imparts and controls the extension and retraction of the blade. The barrel cam cylinder and cam mechanism cooperate to cause the blade to rotate in a first direction and extend from and retract in the outer sheath due to a first actuation of the handle and to rotate in a second direction and extend and retract in the outer sheath due to a second actuation of the handle.

Medical device for removing an implanted object

A system for automated microorganism identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing comprising a reagent cartridge, a reagent stage, a cassette, a cassette, stage, a pipettor assembly, an optical detection system, and a controller is disclosed. The system is designed to dynamically adjust motor idle torque to control heat load and employs a fast focus process for determining the true focus position of an individual microorganism. The system also may quantify the relative abundance of viable microorganisms in a sample using dynamic dilution, and facilitate growth of microorganisms in customized media for rapid, accurate antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Automated quality control test components and methods of their use are also disclosed.

Instrument and system for rapid microogranism identification and antimicrobial agent susceptibility testing

Cartridge

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Phillip Charles Halbert