Conceptus, Inc.

Bayer Healthcare LLC

Terumo Medical Corporation

Bayer Essure Inc.

Roberto Silva-Torres

Steven Robert Bacich

Betsy Swann

Ashish Khera

Christian Lowe

Don Gurskis

Monica Barnhart

Donnell William Gurskis

Chun-Chia Juan

Rung-Jian Chen

Monica Sharmane Barnhart Nachbar

Excess suture material may be trimmed after knot tying using a device having an elongated shaft, an elongated tubular cutter disposed over the shaft and an elongated tubular barrel disposed over the cutter. A suture loader at a distal end of the shaft that engages suture material may be opened and closed by a first actuator that causes relative motion between the shaft and the barrel. A second actuator may cause relative motion between the cutter and both of the barrel and the shaft to sever suture material engaged by the closed suture loader.

System and method for suture trimming

Contraceptive methods, systems, and devices generally improve the ease, speed, and reliability with which a contraceptive device can be deployed transcervically into an ostium of a fallopian tube. The contraceptive device may remain in a small profile configuration while a sheath is withdrawn proximally, and is thereafter expanded to a large profile configuration engaging the surrounding tissues, by manipulating one or more actuators of a proximal handle with a single hand. This leaves the other hand free to manipulate a hysteroscope, minimizing the number of health care professional required to deploy the contraceptive device.

Deployment actuation system

Deployment actuation system for intrafallopian contraception

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Foster City, CA, United States of America

Roberto Silva-Torres