Ethicon Endo-surgery, Inc.

Ethicon, Gmbh

Devicor Medical Products, Inc.

Smiths Medical Asd, Inc.

Other

Medex, Inc.

Water Refining Company, Inc.

Randy R Stephens

William A Garrison

Richard F Schwemberger

John M Collins

James Walden Voegele

Salvatore Privitera

Edward A Rhad

Michael A Murray

Richard C Smith

Mark Tsonton

Darrel M Powell

George E Selecman

James D Hughett

Malcolm L Russelburg

John F Love

Michael S Banik

Gregory D Bishop

Robert Farra

John A Kretchman

Gregory C Groenke

Renato Roxas

Steven G Yapp

Mark D Hileman

Dean Pichon

Kevin L Houser

Anil K Nalagatla

Dale R Schulze

Michael E Boehm

Livyn O Okorocha

Stephen H Davis

Richard W Flaker

Narinderjit S Sambi

John R Menges

Pamela K Jacobs

Donald L Reynolds, Ii

Robert C Uschold

Douglas N Ladd

C Daniel Rowe

Craig F Forester

Leslie R Ashmore

Diane Welling

Jeffrey Mauch

Randall Sword

James W Voegele

Anil Nalagatla

The present application is directed to an image-guided, vacuum assisted, percutaneous, coring, cable driven breast biopsy instrument which may be conveniently mounted to an x-ray machine wherein the biopsy instrument incorporates a rotation knob at the proximal end of the instrument to manually rotate the distal end of the probe, thus allowing the clinician to conveniently position the tissue port next to the tissue to be sampled.

Biopsy device with strainer

A bite block that is inserted into a patient's mouth during an endoscopic diagnostic or surgical procedure that has a channel for receiving an endoscope or other surgical instrument through the patient's mouth and additional channels transmitting a gas to the patient and transmitting expired gas from the patient.

Endoscopic bite block for use with cannula

An intravenous catheter introducer assembly having a safety feature to prevent accidental needle sticks. The introducer assembly includes a needle assembly having a groove disposed on its outer surface. The introducer includes a protector made of a hollow member having an open distal end and an inwardly disposed resilient flange or a clip disposed thereon. The protector is coaxially slidably disposed around the needle with the flange abutting the outer surface of the needle and adapted to engage the groove when a catheter assembly is removed from the needle.

Catheter introducer assembly having safety shielded needle

Biopsy device tissue port adjustment

Manually rotatable piercer

An anti-theft and file security system for a portable electronic device that uses a wireless transceiver coupled to the electronic device, which detects an identifying RF signal produced by a wireless access point. In the preferred embodiment, the access point is connected to a local or wide area network within a geographical area in which the portable electronic device is operated. During use, the RF signal from the access point is detected by a wireless transceiver. Loaded into the memory of the electronic device is a software program that determines if the RF signal is produced by a recognized access point. If the RF signal produced by the access point is recognized, then the electronic device continues to operate and allows full access to secured files loaded thereon. If no RF signal is detected or if the detected RF signal is from a non-recognizable access point, then operation of the electronic device is terminated and/or access to the secured file is blocked.

Location-based anti-theft and security system and method

Remote thumbwheel for a surgical biopsy device

In accordance with the present invention there is provided a biopsy device and method for the collection of at least one tissue sample from a surgical patient. The device includes a frame and an elongated piercing element attached to the distal end of the frame. The piercing element has distal end, a proximal end and a lumen extending at least partially therethrough. The piercing element has a sharpened member at its distal end for piercing tissue, and a port proximal thereto which exposes the lumen. The device further includes an elongated cutter and tissue remover disposed coaxially and slidably within the lumen of the piercing element for harvesting a tissue mass disposed within the port of the piercing element and depositing the tissue mass proximal to the port for retrieval. Lastly, the device includes a mechanism for automatically axially rotating the piercing element after severing a sample so multiple samples can be harvested about a longitudinal axis of the piercing element without manually rotating the piercing element.

Surgical biopsy device having automatic rotation of the probe for taking multiple samples

The invention described herein is an image-guided, vacuum assisted, percutaneous, coring, cable driven breast biopsy instrument which may be conveniently mounted to an x-ray machine. The biopsy instrument described herein incorporates incorporates a firing mechanism to rapidly advance the biopsy probe into the breast.

Firing mechanism for use in a surgical biopsy device

An intravenous catheter introducer assembly having a safety feature to prevent accidental needle sticks. The introducer assembly includes a needle assembly having a groove disposed on its outer surface. The introducer includes a protector made of a hollow member having an open distal end and a inwardly disposed resilient flange disposed thereon. The protector is coaxially slidably disposed around the needle with the flange abutting the outer surface of the needle and adapted to engage the groove when a catheter assembly is removed from the needle assembly.

The present invention is directed to an improved cable driven surgical biopsy device wherein a transmission assembly is disposed at a proximal end of the biopsy device. The transmission assembly being adapted to convert rotational motion of a cable entering the biopsy device of a substantially right angle into rotational energy to drive the axial cutter in the biopsy device.

Transmission assembly for a surgical biopsy device

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Fairfield, OH, United States of America

Randy R Stephens