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Simpson Strong-tie Company Inc.

Timothy P Murphy

Thomas G Evans

James M Benton

Jonathan E Levine

Paul Howard Oellerich

Dustin P Muhn

Emory Lee Montague

Rachel Marie Holland

Benedict Ang

Paul Bernard McEntee

A connector is provided to attach a supported member to a supporting member, with the supported member being in sloped and skewed relation to the supporting member. The connector has back members attached to side members. A seat member attaches to the side members through a hinged connection. The seat member interfaces with the bottom face of the supported member and can be disposed at a sloped angle. A pair of seat side members extend from the seat member.

Reinforced hinged connector

An ergonomic suction syringe and method for performing medical procedures in which suction is generated and can be delivered to a medical device by a single-handed compression motion, with suction actuated by forward motion of a piston into a cylinder, and in which suction can be maintained essentially permanently once activated without any further effort by the operator, even hands-free.

Ergonomic suction syringe and methods of use

Disclosed is an angioplasty balloon catheter and method of use, said angioplasty balloon catheter includes an elongated tip end with physical characteristics nearly identical to a standard angiographic diagnostic catheter. The elongated tip end extends approximately between 2 cm to 75 cm beyond a distal end of a balloon, depending upon embodiments. The tip of the elongated tip end may be angled or straight depending upon embodiments and may or may not have a plurality of side holes in addition to an end hole depending on embodiments. The elongated tip end permits the angioplasty balloon catheter to tract more easily across tortuous or markedly angulated segments of a dialysis graft or fistula, minimizing complications that can result with currently available devices. If angulated, the elongated tip end also enables a user to selectively catheterize an artery without needing a separate diagnostic catheter to do so, and enable tracking and cornering across sharply angulated vessel segments. Whether with an angled or straight distal catheter portion, the angioplasty balloon catheter disclosed herein allows the user to perform angioplasty of an inflow segment of a dialysis graft or fistula and then perform post angioplasty angiographic imaging without the need to exchange the angioplasty balloon catheter for a diagnostic catheter, advance the balloon catheter into the native artery, or perform a blowback angiographic run, thereby improving safety and reducing procedure time.

Extended-tip angioplasty device and method

Methods of treatment of addiction-reward behaviors include reducing ghrelin levels in the patient by at least partially closing at least one artery supplying blood to the stomach, the at least one artery being the celiac artery or a branch of the celiac artery, or by topically treating, surgically removing, or surgically applying treatment to cells in the stomach to reduce ghrelin production by those cells.

Methods for treatment of addiction-reward behaviors

A connection utilizing a joist hanger to hang a joist or beam from a wood structural support member such as a top plate or header in cooperation with a first plurality of fasteners such as screws or nails and one or more substantially vertical fire-resistant panels such as drywall.

Drywall spacing joist hanger

The invention features is an embodiment of a drainage catheter to be used to drain fluid or gas from any body space with an improved distal tip of variable configuration, to facilitate passage of a guide wire used for catheter exchange. The invention also features an embodiment of a retention mechanism used to stabilize the drainage catheter in the body, where in this embodiment the retention mechanism is located outside of the lumen of the tube as it courses from its distal attachment sites to the catheter hub.

Medical drainage catheter with break-away tip and extraluminal retention apparatus

A system and methods useful for treating morbid obesity include the installation of a stenosis into an artery of a morbidly obese patient, the artery selected to be one that supplies blood to the small intestine of the patient.

Methods for treating obesity

A vascular stent-graft system comprises a stent-graft with an expandable tip and a restraining member disposed about at least a portion of that tip. The restraining member constrains expansion of the tip, even absent contact with a delivery device by which the stent-graft is deployed. Thus, unlike prior art designs, the tip can be partially positioned and at least temporarily freed from the grasp of a deployment device without risk that the tip will be prematurely expand into a potentially undesirable fit in the aorta.

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Providence, RI, United States of America

Timothy P Murphy