Prosthesis (i.e., artificial body members), parts thereof, or aids and accessories therefor inventions 11/07

20070276465 - Stent: A stent insertable in a body vessel, the body vessel defining a vessel wall. The stent includes a plurality of struts, the struts defining a substantially elongated stent passageway, the struts being configured, sized and operatively coupled to each other in a manner such that the stent is deformable between... Agent: Louis Tessier

20070276464 - Stent with variable crimping diameter: A stent that has a middle section is that is engaged to the proximal section and the distal section by rotational links which extend about the circumference of the stent. The reduced diameters of the proximal section and the distal section are smaller than the reduced diameter of the middle... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20070276468 - Bifurcated stent assemblies: Disclosed is a stent assembly for expanding in vivo vessels, the assembly comprising first and second radially expandable mesh stents, wherein the first stent is separated by a predetermined distance from the second stent and a stent jacket spans the predetermined distance such that a first end of the jacket... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070276470 - Occlusion device combination of stent and mesh having offset parallelogram porosity: An occlusion device for implantation within a body vessel is provided with a screen member and an associated support member. The occlusion device is radially expandable from a compressed condition, suitable for inserting the device in an introducer, to a deployed or expanded condition within a vessel. The screen member... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070276469 - Occlusion device combination of stent and mesh with diamond-shaped porosity: An occlusion device for implantation within a body vessel is provided with a screen member and an associated support member. The occlusion device is radially expandable from a compressed condition, suitable for inserting the device in an introducer, to a deployed or expanded condition within a vessel. The screen member... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070276471 - Micro-sintered node eptfe structure: The ePTFE structure includes an ePTFE structure which has a node and fibril micro-structure. The micro-structure includes specific nodes which are connected to the fibrils. One or more of the specific nodes are sintered and the fibrils are un-sintered. A method for making the ePTFE structure includes identifying and sintering... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070276477 - Material for creating multi-layered films and methods for making the same: The present invention provides multilayered materials, such as films usable in particular in medical devices in the form of vascular grafts, biocompatible coverings, and/or inflatable bladders, prosthesis for the endoluminal treatment of aneurysms, particularly aortic aneurysms including both abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA's) and thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA's).... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070276483 - Double insertion intraocular implant: An intraocular telescopic lens assembly including a negative lens having a negative lens optical axis, a positive lens having a positive lens optical axis and a spacer disposed intermediate the negative lens and the positive lens, the spacer being operative to maintain mutual orientation of the negative lens and the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070276484 - Method and apparatus for insertion of a flexible implant into the human body: An insertion device for inserting an implant into a body through an incision is provided. The device includes a holder for receiving an implant and has an open downstream end that is dimensioned to be inserted into the incision and for passing the implant therethrough. The device also includes a... Agent: Adams Evans P.A.

20070276486 - Coated tracheostomy tube and stoma stent or cannula: The present invention is directed to an airway management device including a tube with a lumen extending therethrough and with the tube having an inner and outer surface. The outer surface and inner surface of the tube have a protective polymeric coating.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070276487 - Anatomic prosthesis for treating hernias, such as inguinal and crural and other hernias: A prosthesis has a final shell-shaped configuration with a deformable bottom portion that can be shaped on the right side or the left side of the prosthesis thanks to its reversibility. The prosthesis has an initially flat base having at least one notch capable of receiving by overlap at least... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20070276494 - Fastening assemblies for disc herniation repair and methods of use: Devices and methods for fixing defects in the anulus fibrosus (vertebral disc) of a patient are described. The devices include a mesh patch, and first and second suture assemblies, each of which include an anchor and a suture. The anchor has a first portion adapted to be inserted into a... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP

20070276491 - Mold assembly for intervertebral prosthesis: A mold assembly for the in situ formation of a prosthesis in an annulus located in an intervertebral disc space between adjacent vertebrae of a patient. The mold assembly includes at least a first mold having at least one interior cavity adapted to be located in the intervertebral disc space.... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070276497 - Surgical spacer: An interspinous spacer for placement between adjacent spinous processes includes a flexible, fillable container (e.g., a bag or balloon) for containing a material that is compressible during end use, for example, silicone after curing. The container is impermeable to the material it will be filled with. A fabric mesh, for... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070276496 - Surgical spacer with shape control: An interspinous spacer for placement between adjacent spinous processes includes a flexible, fillable container (e.g., a bag or balloon) for containing a material that is compressible during end use, for example, silicone after curing. The container is impermeable to the material it will be filled with. A structural mesh, for... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070276501 - Patient-specific spinal implants and related systems and methods: Methods and systems for generating custom implants by programmatically analyzing a patient's image data to electronically obtain shapes and dimensions of relevant anatomical features of a target region of the patient; and fabricating a patient-specific replacement implant for the patient using the analyzed patient image data. Related patient-specific spinal implants... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070276506 - Demineralized osteochondral plug: A shelf-stable, demineralized, and freeze-dried osteochondral plug comprising cartilage, subchondral bone, and the underlying cancellous bone is provided. Methods of preparing the demineralized osteochondral plug and methods of repairing a defect site are also provided.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070276461 - Delivery catheter having active engagement mechanism for prosthesis: Delivery catheters and systems are adapted for delivering multiple discreet prostheses in body lumens. An exemplary delivery catheter comprises a sheath, a pusher for moving the prostheses relative to the sheath, and a valve member for selectively retaining the prostheses in the sheath. For balloon expandable stents, an elongated shaft... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20070276462 - Modular graft component junctions: The present invention embodies an endovascular graft having an attachment frame connection mechanism that allows placement of the main body component in vasculature in combination with limb components. Various limb component-to-main body component attachment mechanisms are provided which ensure a reliable bond while facilitating a smaller delivery profile.... Agent: Ratner Prestia

20070276463 - Removable stent: The invention is relative to a stent with a tubular support frame consisting of axially successively following, interconnected annular segments which support frame is surrounded on its outside by a thread. The thread ends are guided via a deflection from the outside into support frame, where they are coupled by... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP Bank Of America Plaza

20070276460 - Helical ostium support for treating vascular bifurcations: A prosthesis is disclosed for placement across an ostium opening from a main body lumen to a branch body lumen. The prosthesis comprises a radially expansible support at one end, a circumferentially extending link at the other end and at least one spiral frond extending axially therebetween.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070276466 - Stent for implantation: A stent is made from a coiled wire and is very smooth along its length and as well its ends. The stent is thus highly atraumatic to patients, and because of its smooth surfaces, it presents a surface to which it is difficult for microbes to cling. The stent may... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/chicago/cook

20070276467 - Device for regulating blood flow: An elongated frame dimensioned and configured for implantation in a blood vessel. The frame has two axially spaced apart ring portions, which may be in the form of an expandable crown or a similar structure. At least one linking member connects the two ring portions to one another to form... Agent: Neil D. Gershon

20070276473 - Medical devices, drug coatings and methods for maintaining the drug coatings thereon: Medical devices, and in particular implantable medical devices, may be coated to minimize or substantially eliminate a biological organism's reaction to the introduction of the medical device to the organism. The medical devices may be coated with any number of biocompatible materials. Therapeutic drugs, agents or compounds may be mixed... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070276474 - Medical devices, drug coatings and methods for maintaining the drug coatings thereon: Medical devices, and in particular implantable medical devices, may be coated to minimize or substantially eliminate a biological organism's reaction to the introduction of the medical device to the organism. The medical devices may be coated with any number of biocompatible materials. Therapeutic drugs, agents or compounds may be mixed... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070276475 - Medical devices, drug coatings and methods for maintaining the drug coatings thereon: Medical devices, and in particular implantable medical devices, may be coated to minimize or substantially eliminate a biological organism's reaction to the introduction of the medical device to the organism. The medical devices may be coated with any number of biocompatible materials. Therapeutic drugs, agents or compounds may be mixed... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070276476 - Medical devices, drug coatings and methods for maintaining the drug coatings thereon: Medical devices, and in particular implantable medical devices, may be coated to minimize or substantially eliminate a biological organism's reaction to the introduction of the medical device to the organism. The medical devices may be coated with any number of biocompatible materials. Therapeutic drugs, agents or compounds may be mixed... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070276472 - Vascular stent: This invention relates to a vascular stent. More particularly, this invention relates to a stent comprising a coating based on a hyaluronic acid polymer in which the said hyaluronic acid polymer is an ester derivative of the hyaluronic acid.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20070276478 - Intraoperative and post-operative adjustment of an annuloplasty ring: An intraoperative adjustment device is described. In some embodiments, the device includes an elongate body including a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end configured to penetrate an outer surface of an adjustable cardiac implant implanted in a patient's heart, and the proximal end and the distal end... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070276479 - Heart valve: A valve assembly (10) has a support ring (20) and a valve body (30). The valve body (30) is supported by the ring (20) and comprises an annular body portion (31) that is rotatably engageable with the support ring (20). The annular body portion (30) supports a plurality of leaflets... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070276480 - Impeller: An axial flow rotary blood pump including an impeller (5) adapted to be magnetically rotated within a housing by the interaction of magnets disposed on or in the impeller and stators disposed on or in the housing. The impeller includes at least one support ring (2) supporting a plurality of... Agent: Mccarter & English , LLP Stamford Office

20070276481 - Drug delivery device: A drug delivery device for placement in the eye includes a drug core comprising a pharmaceutically active agent, and a holder that holds the drug core. The holder is made of a material impermeable to passage of the active agent and includes an opening for passage of the pharmaceutically agent... Agent: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

20070276482 - Treatment of photic disturbances in the eye: An ocular lens treated so that at least a portion of the lens perimeter diminishes peripheral light focus on the interior of the eye in use, so as to ameliorate photic eye disturbances. The lens perimeter of intraocular lenses, artificial corneas and contact lenses are treated to diminish peripheral light... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070276485 - Implant with improved homogeneity for plastic surgery and method for the production thereof: An implant and a method for producing an implant for plastic surgery comprising an injection stage, wherein an elastomeric material is injected into a mould in order to produce a flexible envelope for forming a pocket.... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20070276488 - Medical implant or device: The present invention relates to a medical device or implant made at least in part of a high strength, low modulus metal alloy comprising Niobium, Tantalum, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zirconium, Tungsten and Molybdenum. The medical devices according to the present invention provide... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson PC

20070276489 - Fusion implant and method of making same: The present invention provides an implant for use in fusing adjacent bony structures. The implant comprises at least one structural member combined with at least one flexible planar member to retain the at least one structural member to form the implant.... Agent: Cary R. Reeves

20070276492 - Artificial spinal disc implant: An artificial spinal disc that may be implanted between adjacent vertebrae in the spine to replace, repair or augment a natural spinal disc. The spinal disc implant is characterized by one or more biomechanical properties that approximate those of a natural spinal disc and is durable enough to function in... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070276490 - Dynamic spinal plate implant and method of use: A method of using a dynamic plate surgical implant includes removing a patient's degenerated disc between upper vertebrae and lower vertebrae; inserting an artificial replacement disc between the upper vertebrae and lower vertebrae where the degenerated disc was removed; attaching a dynamic plate surgical implant to an anterior of the... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070276493 - Percutaneous spinal implants and methods: An apparatus includes a support member and a retention member. The support member has at least a portion configured to be disposed between a first spinous process and a second spinous process. The retention member is movably coupled to an end portion of the support member. The retention member is... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070276495 - Intervertebral disc prosthesis: The invention relates to an intervertebral disc prosthesis comprising two half-shells (7, 10) clasping a compression pad. According to the invention, the central part of one (10) of the two half-shells comprises a shaft (14) which faces the other half-shell (7), while the central part of said second half-shell (7)... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070276498 - Interbertebral implant with tiltable joint parts: An intervertebral implant (1), including an upper section (10) provided with a ventral side area (11), a dorsal side area (12), two lateral side areas (13, 14), a top apposition surface (15) and a bottom surface (16) a lower section (20) provided with a ventral side area (21), a dorsal... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, LLP

20070276500 - Interspinous process implant including a binder, binder aligner and method of implantation: Systems in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can include an implant comprising a spacer for defining a minimum space between adjacent spinous processes, a distraction guide for piercing and distracting an interspinous ligament during implantation, and a binder for limiting or preventing flexion motion of the targeted motion... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070276499 - Prosthetic spinal disc replacement: The present invention relates generally to a prosthetic spinal disc for replacing a damaged disc between two vertebrae of a spine. The present invention also relates to a method for implanting a prosthetic spinal disc via posterior or posterior lateral implantation. Other surgical approaches for implanting the prosthetic disc may... Agent: Globus Medical, Inc. Attn: Brian Malm

20070276502 - Mandibular bone transport reconstruction plate: This device can be used to create new bone to fill a gap in the mandible after surgical excision. It uses a bone reconstruction plate as a distraction device. The reconstruction plate fixes the bone stumps on both sides of the bone gap. In the middle segment of the plate... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070276503 - Tilt-stable rotating joint and technical orthopedic component constructed therewith: The invention relates to a tilt-stable rotating joint suitable for technical orthopedic components, including a forked external joint part with two limbs whose parallel inner walls pointing towards each other form a slit of a given width and are provided with flush continuous holes. A flat inner joint part protrudes... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070276505 - Injectable bone void filler: The present invention relates to a biodegradable fibrin based composition for injection into osseous defects or voids, which can be the result of osteoporosis, surgery, bone cysts, tumor removal or traumatic bone injury.... Agent: Baxter Healthcare Corporation

20070276508 - Artificial lung system and its use: In an artificial lung system, a gas exchange membrane separates a blood side from an air side, the gas exchange membrane comprising in each case, on the blood side and on the air side, a foreign surface that is colonized on the blood side and/or on the air side with... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070276507 - Scaffolds for organ reconstruction and augmentation: Biocompatible synthetic or natural scaffolds are provided for the reconstruction, repair, augmentation or replacement of organs or tissue structures in a patient in need of such treatment. The scaffolds are shaped to conform to at least a part of the organ or tissue structure and may be seeded with one... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070276504 - Medical device exhibiting improved adhesion between polymeric coating and substrate: Polymer-coated medical devices having improved structural integrity and drug elution profile, and related methods. Treatment of a polymeric undercoat layer to reflow the undercoat polymer results in a substrate/coating interface with improved adhesion.... Agent: Mueting, Raasch & Gebhardt, P.A.

20070276509 - Tissue scaffold: A tissue engineered construct made totally or in part from biocompatible materials and mammalian cells and/or cell products is provided. These constructs are useful in regenerating complex tissues such as bone, ligament and tendon, which may fabricated into medical devices suitable for use in the treatment of injuries and maladies... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20070276510 - Process for making a molded valve housing for a prothesis or an orthosis: In a process for the casting of a mounting which is to be attached to the human body and which takes the form of a prosthesis socket or of an orthosis part, a reinforcement in the shape of a grid or frame located in the core region is surrounded by... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070270932 - Apparatus and method for loading and delivering a stent: A stent loading and deployment device includes an outer elongate tubular member having opposed proximal and distal ends and an inner elongate tubular member having opposed proximal and distal ends and slidably disposed within the outer tubular member. When the distal ends of the outer tubular member and the inner... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070270931 - Apparatus and method for loading and delivering a stent using a suture retaining mechanism: An assembly for delivering an intraluminary member into a body lumen including a delivery catheter including an elongated tubular member, an elongated rod disposed within and slidingly engaged with the tubular member, a handle fixed to a proximal end of the rod, and at least one securing mechanism located on... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070270930 - Vascular occlusion device deployment system with gripping feature opened by a collapsible reaction chamber: A vascular occlusion device deployment system for placing an occlusion device at a preselected site within the vasculature of a patient. The deployment system employs a pusher including a gripper located at the distal end of the pusher to releasably retain a vascular occlusion device. The gripper is expanded under... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070270937 - Apparatus and method for loading and delivering a stent: An assembly for delivering a self-expanding stent into a body lumen comprising a catheter adapted to deliver the self-expanding stent, the catheter having a stent delivery passage adapted to contain the stent in an at least partially radially compressed state, and a stent transfer member communicating with a distal end... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070270941 - Bioabsorbable stents with reinforced filaments: According to an aspect of the present invention, a stent is provided, which contains at least one filament that has a longitudinal axis and comprises a bioabsorbable polymeric material. Polymer molecules within the bioabsorbable polymeric material are provided with a helical orientation which is aligned with respect to the longitudinal... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20070270942 - Galvanic corrosion methods and devices for fixation of stent grafts: Methods and devices are provided to contribute to improved stent graft fixation within vessels at treatment sites. Improved stent graft fixation within vessels at treatment sites is provided by providing stent grafts and methods of making and using stent grafts having structural scaffoldings which undergo controlled galvanic corrosion in situ.... Agent: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.IPLegal Department

20070270943 - Device and method for improving heart valve function: The invention is device and method for reducing regurgitation through a mitral valve. The device and method is directed to an anchor portion for engagement with the heart wall and an expandable valve portion configured for deployment between the mitral valve leaflets. The valve portion is expandable for preventing regurgitation... Agent: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

20070270945 - Insertion device for intraocular lens: An insertion device for an intraocular lens is disclosed which can prevent leakage of a liquid in the device and can house and store a lens as well as the liquid. The insertion device includes a main body including a lens housing portion that houses the lens and an insertion... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070270951 - Transforaminal intersomatic cage for an intervertebral fusion graft and an instrument for implanting the cage:

20070270969 - Welded-woven materials: Three-dimensional welded-woven materials are disclosed. In particular, an orthopedic implant comprises a welded-woven material to provide lubrication and wear resistance.... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070270936 - Apparatus and methods for delivering coiled prostheses: Methods and apparatus for delivering prostheses to body lumens, such as stents and grafts to blood vessels, utilize a delivery device which carries one or more linearized elements. The linearized elements assume non-linear configurations, particularly helical configurations, when advanced and released from the delivery device. By selectively controlling the length... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP (client No 021629-000000)

20070270935 - Dual balloon catheter and deployment of same: Disclosed are catheter apparatus and methods for deploying a stent in a bifurcated vessel while minimizing flow problems in the branch vessel. In general, the catheter includes at least one non-compliant inflation structure for pushing a stent against a vessel wall in a main vessel and a compliant inflation structure... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/abbott Vascular Devices

20070270934 - Sensor, delivery system, and method of fixation: An implant assembly for releasing into a vessel at an implant location includes an intracorporeal device and an anchor. The anchor comprises a pair of resiliently deformable loops operatively associated with the intracorporeal device, both of the loops extending toward the same side of a plane defined by the intracorporeal... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070270933 - Stent having contoured proximal end: A contoured intraluminal stent for deployment proximate a bifurcated vessel is disclosed. The contoured stent is configured to seat within a side branch of the bifurcated vessel so as to acceptably cover a curvilinear ostium defined at the intersection of the side branch with a main branch of the vessel.... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070270938 - Device for reinforcing and relieving a dilated vessel: A device (1) for reinforcing and relieving a blood vessel (2) in a vessel dilation (3) thereof is provided. The device includes a stent (5) with metal reinforcement (4), which, in the position of use, bridges the vessel dilation (3) and can be anchored outside of the vessel dilation (3)... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070270940 - Bioabsorbable magnesium-reinforced polymer stents: Bioabsorbable magnesium-reinforced polymer stents are disclosed. Additionally, bioabsorbable magnesium-reinforced polymer stents are disclosed which elute therapeutic agents.... Agent: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.IPLegal Department

20070270939 - Drug delivery device: A drug delivery device (1) is disclosed. The device comprises a vascular implant having a helical formation (4) that is capable of inducing helical flow of blood passing it. A drug is releasably associated with the helical formation.... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070270944 - Implantable valve prosthesis: The present invention provides valve prostheses adapted to be initially crimped in a narrow configuration suitable for catheterization through body ducts to a target location and adapted to be deployed by exerting substantially radial forces from within by means of a deployment device to a deployed state in the target... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20070270946 - Prevention and treatment for adult glaucoma: Eyes that develop glaucoma do so because of the presence of the aging lens. After age 22 years, all structures of the eye except the lens attain their full growth. However the lens continues to grow and change throughout life. As lens changes occur, other structures adjacent to the lens... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070270947 - Method and system for modifying an intraocular telescope: The present invention relates to a method and device for altering vision in an eye. The invention includes inserting into the eye a supplemental lens in series with an implanted Galilean telescopic intraocular lens. The Galilean telescopic intraocular lens is adapted to form a first image from a first field... Agent: Bell, Boyd, & Lloyd LLP

20070270948 - Methods and composition for soft tissue feature reconstruction: This present invention describes methods and compositions useful for the reconstruction of various soft tissue features such as lips, areola, and many other features by taking a mold of the skin feature to be replaced, such as the areola, prior to surgical resection, re-creating the size and shape of the... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070270949 - Delayed stimulation in auditory prostheses: A method generating electrical stimuli by an auditory prosthesis (1;1′;1″) including an array of stimulation devices in response to an incoming acoustic signal, the method including determining stimulation devices to be activated within the array and activation times for those electrodes; and applying a temporal adjustment (12) to the activation... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070270955 - Arthoscopic arthroplasty procedure for the repair or reconstruction of arthritic joints: An arthoscopic arthroplasty procedure for the repair or reconstruction of an arthritic joint (J) in a person's hand or foot. A first opening hole (10) is made in a joint membrane (11), as is a second opening (14) for insertion of an arthoscope (16) into the joint to view the... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070270959 - Arthroplasty device: An artificial vertebral joint having an anterior motion preserving system connected to a posterior motion preserving system is disclosed. The anterior motion preserving system may be permanently connected or selectively connected to the posterior motion preserving system. Further, the anterior and posterior motion preserving systems may include flexible members, such... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070270964 - Expandable vertebral implant and methods of use: An implant for insertion between vertebral members in which an inner member, intermediate member, and outer member are concentrically disposed. The inner and outer members may comprise end plates to contact the vertebral members. The outer member may include a tapered interior wall. A locking element is movably contained within... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070270960 - Extendable anchor in a vertebral implant and methods of use: A vertebral implant includes a body including an outer surface and an aperture forming an inner cavity. A gear including a plurality of teeth is rotatable within the cavity about a rotation axis. An anchor including a bone-engaging feature to engage the vertebral members may be operatively coupled to the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070270967 - Facet joint replacement: A prosthesis for the replacement of at least a portion of the bone of a facet located on a mammalian vertebra, comprising: an articulating surface that articulates with another facet; a bone contacting surface that contacts a surface of the vertebra, the articulating surface being connected to the bone contacting... Agent: Medicinelodge Inc.

20070270954 - Human bone substitutional implant: A human bone substitutional implant comprises a main body and a push body. The main body is a hollow cylinder with a thread portion or a ratchet portion disposed on its outer wall. The thread portion or the ratchet portion has at least a slit dividing it into four equal... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070270963 - Intervertebral implants and methods of use: The present application discloses intervertebral implants and methods of using the implants. The implants may include inferior and superior surfaces, and a sidewall that together form the body of the implant. One or both of the inferior and superior surfaces may include tapered surfaces to facilitate distraction of adjacent vertebral... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070270965 - Orthopedic support locating or centering feature and method: Spinal plate positioning system including a spinal plate, centering member and implant, is used to position and center a spinal plate over an implant in an intervertebral space. Implant may include a centering feature which may engage a surface of centering member or spinal plate to aid in placement of... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070270950 - Partial intervertebral implant and method of augmenting a disc surgery: A partial nucleus implant is disclosed and can be installed within an intervertebral disc between an inferior vertebra and a superior vertebra proximate to a previously installed full nucleus implant. The partial nucleus implant can include a component that can be configured to be installed within a void between the... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070270968 - Plif opposing wedge ramp: A spinal fusion implant for implantation between adjacent vertebrae is formed in the approximate shape of a hollow cube. The device has an upper section and a lower section separated by a distractor all of which are relatively movable. The sidewalls of the upper section and the lower section terminate... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20070270952 - Prosthetic intervertebral discs implantable by minimally invasive surgical techniques: Prosthetic intervertebral discs and methods for using the same are described. The subject prosthetic discs include upper and lower endplates separated by a compressible core member. The subject prosthetic discs exhibit stiffness in the vertical direction, torsional stiffness, bending stiffness in the saggital plane, and bending stiffness in the front... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070270966 - Spinal implant loading block with multiple orientations: Spinal implant systems, apparatus, and methods of use are provided. One such apparatus for holding an implantable spinal device includes a base having a generally flat first surface and a second surface spaced apart from the first surface. The base has a third surface between the first and second surfaces... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070270961 - Spinal implant with deployable and retractable barbs: The present invention provides spinal implants and systems which may be used for fixing a portion of the spine, such as the cervical spine, to allow correction or healing. One such spinal implant includes a body having at least one cavity therein. A barb is disposed within the cavity, with... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070270962 - Tools for spinal prostheses: An insertion angle tool for aligning insertion of pedicle screws into spinal structure, the insertion angle tool including one or more extension arms that each include a tool receiving portion adapted to receive therein an instrument, and a level indicator, the tool receiving portion being angled such that when the... Agent: Dekel Patent Ltd., David Klein

20070270953 - Transformable spinal implants and methods of use: The present application is directed to transformable implants for a variety of medical applications. The implants transform from a malleable pre-filled article into a more rigid device via hardening of the implant material. The malleable aspects of the implants facilitate delivery and insertion for implantation in a minimally invasive procedure.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070270956 - Vertebral fusion implants and methods of use: A vertebral implant for use in vertebral fusion surgeries includes a body with an exterior surface and an interior surface. The interior surface defines an interior cavity into which bone growth promoting materials such as bone graft are insertable. The body also includes a plurality of apertures that extend from... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070270957 - Vertebral implants having predetermined angular correction and methods of use: A vertebral implant for use in establishing desired spinal curvatures includes separate implant bodies. Each body may include an associated angle between inferior and superior surfaces of the body. Further, the implant bodies may be stacked so that the associated angles are oriented in different anatomical planes. The implant bodies... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070270958 - Vertebral implants including asymmetric endplate contours and methods of use: An implant for insertion into a patient includes a superior surface disposed at a first end of the implant and an inferior surface disposed at a second, opposite end of the implant. The superior and inferior surfaces of the implant are constructed with curvatures that approximately match the morphology of... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070270970 - Spinal implants with improved wear resistance: An intervertebral prosthetic disc is disclosed and can be installed within an intervertebral space between a superior vertebra and an inferior vertebra. The intervertebral prosthetic disc can include an inferior component that can have a depression formed therein and a superior component that can have a projection extending therefrom. The... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070270971 - Intervertebral prosthetic disc with improved wear resistance: An intervertebral prosthetic disc is disclosed and can be installed within an intervertebral space between a superior vertebra and an inferior vertebra. The intervertebral prosthetic disc can include an inferior component having a depression formed therein and a superior component having a projection extending therefrom. The projection can be configured... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070270973 - Apparatus and method for sculpting the surface of a joint: A method and apparatus for minimally invasive total joint replacement. The method involves sculpting the articular surface of a second bone that normally articulates with a first bone by attaching a bone sculpting tool directly or indirectly to the first bone with the tool in bone sculpting engagement with the... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20070270972 - Artificial functional spinal unit system and method for use: A stabilization system for a human spine is provided comprising at least one dynamic interbody device and at least one dynamic posterior stabilization system. In some embodiments the stabilization system comprises a pair of dynamic interbody devices and a pair of dynamic posterior stabilization systems. In some embodiments, a bridge... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070270974 - Implants for creating connections to tissue parts, in particular to skeletal parts, as well as device and method for implantation thereof: Implants (7) for forming a positive connection with human or animal parts include a material, such as thermoplastics and thixotropic materials, that can be liquefied by means of mechanical energy. The implants (7) are brought into contact with the tissue part, are subjected to the action of ultrasonic energy while... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070270975 - Prosthesis: A prothesis having an articulating surface, wherein at least a portion of said articulating surface is provided with a plurality of continuous grooves.... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070270976 - Ambulating ankle & knee joints with bidirectional dampening and assistance using elastomeric restraint: A hinge or joint assembly includes a first member movably connected to a second member to allow angular displacement of the first member relative to the second member in each of extension and flexion (clockwise and counterclockwise) directions, where one elastomeric spring restrains angular displacement in a flexion position, and... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070265696 - Stent and fabrication method thereof: Disclosed is a stent having a hollow tubular structure with open ends which tubular structure is formed by a plurality of filaments woven alternately, wherein each of the filaments has at least one elongated closed-loop wire and both ends of each of the filaments are positioned at the open ends,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070265694 - Apparatus and method for delivering lined intraluminal prostheses: An apparatus for delivering an intraluminal prosthesis within a patient's body includes an inner sheath having longitudinally spaced proximal and distal inner sheath ends. A nose cone is connected to the distal inner sheath end. An intraluminal prosthesis sheath has longitudinally spaced proximal and distal intraluminal prosthesis sheath ends and... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070265695 - Stent graft device: A stent graft device for implanting in a body lumen, comprising a stent with non-staggered or staggered apexes, said stent comprising a plurality of stent sections, bendable connecting members forming said non-staggered or staggered apexes and connecting each of said stent sections to other stent sections to form a zigzag... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070265697 - Bifurcated endoluminal prothesis: The invention comprises: An introducer for delivering into the vasculature a straight or bifurcated stent or prosthesis; a method for delivering into the vasculature a straight or bifurcated stent or prosthesis; a method of treating and angeological disease using a bifurcated stent; an endoluminal stent having perpendicular hoop members, each... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070265698 - Intravascular stent with inverted end rings: The invention is directed to an expandable stent for implanting in a body lumen, such as a coronary artery, peripheral artery, or other body lumen. The invention provides for an intravascular stent having a plurality of cylindrical rings connected by undulating links. A plurality of inverted cylindrical end rings can... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070265699 - Artificial venous valve containing therapeutic agent: The invention relates to a prosthetic valve for regulating flow through a body lumen and delivering a therapeutic agent into said lumen. In one embodiment, the prosthesis includes a frame having an exterior wall, a hollow interior space, a valve member, and at least one aperture through the exterior wall... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/chicago/cook

20070265700 - Safety for mitral valve plug: A heart valve implant may include a shaft extending generally along a longitudinal axis of the heart valve implant. A spacer may be coupled to the shaft between a first and a second end region of the shaft. The spacer may be configured to interact with at least a portion... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20070265701 - Multiple component prosthetic heart valve assemblies and apparatus for delivering them: Multiple component heart valves and apparatus and methods for implanting them are provided. The heart valve generally includes a first annular prosthesis and a second valve prosthesis. The first prosthesis includes an annular member compressible from a relaxed condition to a contracted condition to facilitate delivery into a biological annulus,... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070265702 - Percutaneous treatment for heart valves: The invention is directed to percutaneous transvascular therapeutic procedures, particularly for patients with congestive heart failure, and systems for such procedures. A system of the invention for a “Bow-tie” procedure has an elongated guide catheter, a leaf stabilizing device and a tissue grasping device for grasping the free edges of... Agent: Edward J. Lynch Duane Morris LLP

20070265703 - Pulsatile control system for a rotary blood pump: A system for controlling the speed of a rotary blood pump. The system oscillates the speed of the pump to produce pulsed pressure at the outlet of the pump. The speed is oscillated synchronously with the natural cardiac cycle. The natural cardiac cycle is determined using a pulsatility index calculated... Agent: Daniel B. Schein, Ph.d., Esq., Inc.

20070265704 - Surgical method, kit of parts, and implant: A surgical method is provided, the method including the steps of: providing an artificial or allograft flexible planar structure; providing an implant, the implant including material liquefiable by mechanical oscillation, exposing a surface region of hard tissue or hard tissue substitute material; positioning the implant on an exposed area of... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070265705 - Implant for repairing a cartilage defect: The present invention relates to an implant for repairing a cartilage defect comprising a first layer and a second layer. The first layer comprises a membrane-like structure and the second layer comprises a sponge-like structure with directional and/or interconnected pores. The first layer is facing the synovial space and the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070265706 - Facet arthroplasty devices and methods: Devices and surgical methods treat various types of adult spinal pathologies, such as degenerative spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, degenerative lumbar scoliosis, and kypho-scoliosis. Various types of spinal joint replacement prostheses, surgical procedures for performing spinal joint replacements, and surgical instruments are used to perform the surgical procedures.... Agent: Shayglenn LLP

20070265707 - Intervertebral implant: In an intervertebral implant, having an upper part that has a support face for a vertebra and a lower part that has a support face for an adjacent vertebra, on each of which parts engagement elements, which are accessible from one side of the intervertebral implant, for a manipulation instrument... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070265708 - Porous titanium modular revision patella system: A patellar implant includes a posterior portion and an anterior portion. The posterior portion may define an articulating surface and a first retaining feature. The anterior portion may define a tissue engaging portion and a second retaining feature adapted to advance into a mechanical interlock with the first retaining feature... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070265709 - Gastric bypass devices and methods: Devices and methods for achieving weight loss in obese and morbidly obese patients are disclosed. The invention combines a gastric and/or small bowel bypass (in which ingested food bypasses the stomach and, optionally, at least a portion of the small bowel) and a satiety device in the form of one... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070265710 - Method of making hernia patch and resulting product: A hernia patch comprising a frame made of a plurality of strands made from a shape memory alloy wound together as a cable and a prosthetic mesh material attached to the cable frame. The cable frame forms a loop of a predetermined shape when unconstrained. The cable frame cam is... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070265711 - Internal socket and fitting system for a prosthesis: A fitting including an electrode assembly mounted and sealed therein. The fitting configured to be positioned within an aperture in a wall of a socket of a prosthetic apparatus. The prosthetic apparatus may include an external socket that receives and is attached to the socket as an internal socket. The... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070260314 - Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion cage: A cage to separate and support adjacent vertebrae in the spine that have undergone orthopedic spinal fusion procedures. The cage has first and second spacer members for insertion between adjacent vertebrae with a hinge located between the spacers. An advancing mechanism is located between the first and second spacer members... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans (zimmer Spine)

20070260324 - Fully or partially bioresorbable orthopedic implant: A fully or partially bioresorbable orthopedic implant to provide support along a load-bearing axis and a method for producing the same. The implant may include an implant body and a reinforcement material, where the reinforcement material is integrated into the implant body and oriented to provide support along one or... Agent: Ceramatec, Inc.

20070260330 - Foot prosthesis to enhance the appearance of a dancer's foot: An instep enhancing prosthesis (19) to be worn by a dancer to enhance the appearance of the dancer's foot (10). The prosthesis (19) includes a flexible sock portion (20) formed of elastic material to which there is attached an instep enhancing prosthetic portion (27) that has an upper surface (28)... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070260299 - Covalent grafting of hydrophobic substances on collagen: A hydrophobic grafted collagen, a method for preparing same and use thereof, in particular in therapy, are provided. Hydrophobic substances or molecules are grafted by covalent bonds on reactive amino acid residues of collagen molecules. The chemical linkages serve to modify the physico-chemical and biological properties of collagen and/or its... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20070260301 - Controlled sequential deployment: A stent graft introducer (1) which includes a handle arrangement which by telescopic movement of a slide or slide portions (104, 106) into a handle portion (100) causes controlled sequential deployment of a stent graft (14). Stops (218, 217, 218, 219) ensure actions are carried out in a selected order.... Agent: Cook Group Patent Office

20070260300 - Intraluminal medical device having a curable coating: A stent formed of a plurality of serpentine bands, each band formed from a plurality of straight sections connected by curved end portions, at least some of the end portions having a curable resin composition disposed thereon, and a method of making and using the same.... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20070260302 - Device for delivery of stent for vessel: A device for delivery of a stent for a vessel, used for implanting a stent for the vessel 3 in the vessel, is disclosed. The device for delivery of a stent for the vessel includes a catheter (1) for insertion into the vessel of a living body, a balloon (2)... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070260303 - Displaceable stent side branch structure: In at least one embodiment, a stent comprises a side branch structure having an inner crown, an outer crown and a plurality of side branch connectors, each side branch connector connecting between the inner crown and the outer crown. Upon expansion of the side branch structure, the inner crown displaces... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20070260304 - Bifurcated stent with minimally circumferentially projected side branch: The present invention is directed toward a bifurcation stent comprising a plurality of interconnected expansion columns, wherein the plurality of interconnected expansion columns are longitudinally spaced from the proximal end of the stent to the distal end of the stent and wherein the plurality of interconnected expansion columns define a... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20070260305 - Guide shields for multiple component prosthetic heart valve assemblies and apparatus and methods for using them: A heart valve assembly includes an annular prosthesis and a plurality of guide shields removably attached around a circumference of the annular prosthesis. A plurality of elongate guide rails extend from the annular prosthesis, which are releasably retained by the guide shields. During use, the annular prosthesis is directed into... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070260306 - Ophthalmic devices and procedures: A tissue barrier (410), for example of titanium alloy, for insertion into an incision in the sclera of the eye for the treatment of conditions such as presbyopia, comprises an elongate insert which is provided with a longitudinally extending flange (414, 416) at each end to prevent the barrier from... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070260307 - Vision prosthesis with implantable power source: A vision prosthesis including an intraocular lens having a refractive power that varies in response to a stimulus; and an implantable power source for providing power to an actuator in communication with the intraocular lens for providing the stimulus.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070260309 - Accommodating intraocular lens having a recessed anterior optic: A multi-component accommodating intraocular lens (AIOL), comprising a recessed anterior optical element, a posterior component, and at least two longitudinal haptics each coupled to at least a portion of the anterior optic and at least a portion of the posterior component. Each haptic has an anterior most-portion that is disposed... Agent: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

20070260310 - Accommodative intraocular lens having defined axial compression characteristics: A multi-optic accommodating intraocular lens (A-IOL) for implantation in a capsular bag of an eye having an optical axis, includes a posterior component, an anterior component that is translatable relative to the posterior component along an optical axis of the A-IOL, and a biasing element that joins at least a... Agent: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated

20070260308 - Accommodative intraocular lens system: A two-optic accommodative lens system. The first lens has a negative power and is located posteriorly within the capsular bag and lying against the posterior capsule. The periphery of the first lens is attached to a ring-like structure having a side wall. The second lens is located anteriorly to the... Agent: Alcon

20070260311 - Lenses capable of post-fabrication power modification: The present invention relates to lenses that are capable of post-fabrication power modifications. In general, the inventive lenses comprise (i) a first polymer matrix and (ii) a refraction modulating composition that is capable of stimulus-induced polymerization dispersed therein. When at least a portion of the lens is exposed to an... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070260313 - Filler, supply device and method for forming a support structure in a bone cavity: The invention relates to dry free-flowing filler (1) for forming a support structure in a bone cavity (4a). Said filler comprises a plurality of biocompatible support bodies (2) which are resistant to deformation or fracture under the physiological loads usually occurring in the bone cavity (4a). Said support bodies (2)... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070260312 - Subcutaneous intramuscular mounting for a rigid transcutaneous implant: A subcutaneous, intramuscular mounting for a rigid transcutaneous implant is disclosed, which may be fixed intracorporally in a bone stump, comprising a spacer (3) between the implant and an extracorporal coupling device (4) which may be coupled thereto, whereby the spacer (3) is embodied as a rigid bush (5) with... Agent: Flaster/greenberg P.C. 8 Penn Center

20070260315 - Devices and methods for disc height restoration: Devices and methods to restore the disc height between adjacent vertebral members. The methods use a variety of different spacers that are each positionable between a first orientation having a reduced height and a second orientation having an enlarged height. The spacer is initially placed within the disc space in... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070260316 - Kit for an intervertebral implant and intervertebral implant: In a kit for an intervertebral implant comprising an upper end plate and a lower end plate for placement on adjacent vertebral bodies, and bearing elements arranged between the end plates for mutually pivotally supporting these, the end plates carrying anchoring projections on their outer sides which face the vertebral... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20070260318 - Modular disc for spinal arthroplasty through a small posterior exposure with intradiscalor intervertebral assembly in-situ: A prosthetic nucleus replacement comprises modules about 10-13 mm in width of various heights that can be placed via a posterior approach and assembled intradiscalor intervertebral... Agent: Robert Charles Hill

20070260320 - Spinal system and method including lateral approach: Embodiments of the invention include devices and methods for implanting a vertebral body spacer. A lateral surgical approach is contemplated with some disclosed procedures. Instruments of some embodiments are insertable into a disc space to achieve distraction, to determine a desired disc space height, and to select a corresponding implant.... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20070260319 - Testing: A method and apparatus for testing an item, such as an artificial and/or prosthetic intervertebral disc or part thereof, is provided to allow one or more combinations of compressive load and/or flexion and/or extension and/or lateral bending and/or axial rotation and/or shear to be considered. The method includes: providing a... Agent: Jonathan Spangler Nu Vasive, Inc.

20070260317 - Transforaminal prosthetic spinal disc replacement: The present invention relates generally to a prosthetic spinal disc for replacing a damaged disc between two vertebrae of a spine. The present invention also relates to prosthetic spinal disc designs that are implanted using a transforaminal approach.... Agent: Globus Medical, Inc. Attn: Brian Malm

20070260321 - Conically-shaped glenoid implant with a prosthetic glenoid insert used in total shoulder arthroplasty and method: A conically-shaped glenoid implant (1) having a fastening means for the acceptance of a conventional prosthetic glenoid insert (7) and a hole (9) located thereon for the acceptance of a locking means. The fastening means are preferably notches (11) while the locking means is preferably reverse barbs (13). An optional... Agent: Edward M. Livingston, Pa

20070260322 - Transversal support tibial plateau (tttp): A transversal support tibial plateau consisting of two joint surfaces, two joint surface supports and a transversal support is described. This transversal support tibial plateau is arranged in such a way that the joint surfaces can be introduced separately from the front into the knee joint. This arrangement simplifies the... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20070260323 - Distal femoral knee prostheses: A set of distal femoral knee prostheses which are designed to be more narrow in medial/lateral dimensions with increasing anterior/posterior size than existing prostheses to more closely correspond to the physical anatomy of female patients. The prostheses are designed to have a substantially trapezoidal shape or profile when viewed distally... Agent: Zimmer Technology - Baker & Daniels

20070260325 - Bone cement compositions comprising an indicator agent and related methods thereof: The invention relates to methods, compositions, kits and systems for determining one or more cement material properties. In one variation, a color change agent is introduced into bone cement to allow a physician to determine when a cement has the desired viscosity for insertion into a patient. In another variation,... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070260326 - Cancellous bone treated with collagenase and essentially free of blood cells: A bone implant comprising cancellous bone that is essentially free of blood cells, and which has been treated with at least a loosening agent, such as collagenase and/or a digestive enzyme, for a time and at a concentration to loosen the osteogenic cells in the cancellous bone matrix. The osteogenic... Agent: Raymond J. Lillie, Esq. C/o Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan,

20070260327 - Artificial valve prosthesis with improved flow dynamics: An expandable venous valve having a support structure that configured to enlarge the area adjacent to the valve structure such that the flow patterns of retrograde flow are modified in a way that facilitates the flushing of the pockets at the base of the valve area to prevent stagnation of... Agent: Dunlap, Codding & Rogers, P.C.

20070260329 - Method to determine fitting height of prosthesis: Embodiments of the present invention relate to determining the overall height of a prosthesis composed of several components, in which at least some of the components can be adjustably connected to one another via adapters using a substantially spherical surfaces. In certain embodiments, each component can be assigned a system... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070260328 - Prosthetic joint: A prosthesis joint including a base, a coupling element for attachment to a body part or a prosthesis section, which is attached to the base, and an attachment device for attachment to a prosthesis device, which is coupled to the base and pivotable around at least one axis. A locking... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070255394 - Method and apparatus for cardiac valve replacement: A method of placing a valve in a tubular organ including the steps of delivering an expandable tubular adapter to a site within the tubular organ, wherein the adapter includes an enclosed volume surrounded by an outer wall that is spaced from an inner wall, and first and second end... Agent: Kagan Binder, PLLC

20070255402 - Wound closure method: A method for convenient, controlled wound closure of an eye, the skin, internal organs and other soft tissue which comprises administering to the wound a sterile, body compatible photopolymerizable acrylate or methacrylate adhesive, and exposing the applied adhesive to light.... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20070255389 - Apparatus and method for treating cardiovascular diseases: An apparatus for treating cardiovascular diseases includes an expandable support member having oppositely disposed proximal and distal end portions and a main body portion between the end portions for positioning in a blood vessel. The proximal end portion of the expandable support member includes a plurality of wing members that... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070255388 - Endovascular device with membrane: Embodiments of a uniformly porous membrane covering an endoprosthetic device, for example, a stent used to treat an aneurysm, are described. Some embodiments have a pore size and spacing that provides a material ratio of between 70-80% in the deployed state. Material ratio is the proportion of the total porous... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070255387 - Manufacture of fine-grained material for use in medical devices: Medical devices are manufactured from fine grained materials, processed from of a variety of metals and alloys, such as stainless steel, cobalt-chromium and nickel-titanium alloys. A fine grained metal or alloy is formed from a specimen rapidly heated to its recrystallization temperature, and then subjected to high temperature, multi-axial deformation,... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070255390 - Rotary handle for controlled sequential deployment device: A stent graft introducer actuation assembly (1) having a fixed handle (3) and at least one sliding handle (5, 7), the sliding handle or handles telescoping within the fixed handle, and a winch arrangement (9) to retract the sliding handle into the fixed handle. There may be provided arrangements to... Agent: Cook Group Patent Office

20070255385 - Stent delivery system with improved retraction member: An expandable stent and delivery system is provided for treating body vessel defects, such as partially occluded blood vessels and aneurysms. The delivery system includes a core member having a non-cylindrical retraction member with extending portions configured to extend between struts of the stent. The stent includes enlarged anchor members... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070255386 - Stent delivery system with threaded engagement and method: An expandable stent and delivery system are provided for treating body vessel defects, such as partially occluded blood vessels and aneurysms. The delivery system includes a core member having a threaded core member portion configured to interlock with a threaded strut member portion of the expandable stent. The expandable stent... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070255392 - Composite stent: A biodegradable and/or bioabsorbable composite stent includes a bioabsorbable ceramic material coated with a biodegradable polymeric material.... Agent: Holland & Hart LLP

20070255393 - Medical devices coated with porous carbon and methods of manufacturing the same: A method of creating a porous carbon coating on a medical device by applying a precursor carbon material on the medical device and then pyrolysing the precursor carbon material by laser irradiation. The laser irradiation may be focused to carbonize only certain portions of the medical device and any uncarbonized... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070255391 - Optimized flex link for expandable stent: This invention relates generally to an expandable intraluminal medical device for use within a body passageway or duct, and more particularly to an optimized stent having flexible links that minimize foreshortening during stent deployment. In one embodiment of the present invention the intraluminal prosthetic device includes a first hoop section,... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070255384 - Stent having a multiplicity of undulating longitudinals: A method for implanting a balloon expandable stent at a site within a passageway of a curved coronary article. The stent includes at least two longitudinally spaced apart circumferential rings. At least one longitudinally extending connector extends between adjacent rings. The connector has at least one turn back portion that... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070255395 - Mechanism for securing to a corporeal lumen and method of manufacturing: An improved hook provides for the attaching of endoluminal prosthesis within corporeal lumens. The hook is integrally formed with framing structure and is preset into an outward bend, but is resiliently flexible so as to form a substantially straight profile when compressed. The hook is capable of impinging upon the... Agent: Ratner Prestia

20070255396 - Chrodae tendinae girdle: A girdle for surrounding the chordae tendinae of a heart valve, and a system and method for delivering the girdle. The girdle gathers the chordae tendinae into a bundle to effectively shorten the chordae tendinae to resolve or reduce valve leaflet prolapse. The system includes a girdle releaseably carried within... Agent: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.IPLegal Department

20070255397 - Flexible annuloplasty prosthesis and holder: A valve repair system, preferably including an annuloplasty prosthesis and a holder for the prosthesis. The holder includes a first component having a central opening, a circumferential surface and an outwardly extending member. The annuloplasty prosthesis is located adjacent to the circumferential surface, above the outwardly extending member. The holder... Agent: Jeffrey J. Hohenshell Medtronic, Inc.

20070255398 - Two-part expandable heart valve: Expandable heart valves for minimally invasive valve replacement surgeries are disclosed. The valves are rolled into a first, contracted configuration for minimally invasive delivery and then unrolled or unfurled at the implantation site. One- and two-piece stents may be used in conjunction with a plurality of flexible leaflet-forming membranes. The... Agent: John Christopher James Edwards Lifesciences LLC

20070255399 - Balloon mitral spacer: A heart valve implant according to one embodiment may include a shaft and an anchor disposed on one end of the shaft, the anchor configured to engage tissue. The heart valve implant may further include an expandable member disposed over at least part of the shaft, the expandable member comprising... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20070255400 - Prosthetic valve apparatus, in particular for cardiac applications: A prosthetic valve apparatus, in particular for cardiac applications. The apparatus comprises a valve prosthesis fastened to a suture ring. The apparatus further provides for the valve prosthesis to be fastened to the suture ring by means of a plurality of magnets which provide a magnetic attraction between the two... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070255401 - Design of inlays with intrinsic diopter power: Described herein are designs and design methods for intracorneal inlays with intrinsic dioper power (i.e., index of refraction different from the surrounding cornea tissue). The designs and design methods achieve a desired refractive change by a combination of the intrinsic diopter power of the inlay and the physical shape of... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070255403 - Polymer adhesive for an intraocular lens that minimizes posterior capsule opacification: Various polymers are provided that can be polymerized in the lens capsule with the ability to covalently bond an intraocular lens implant to the posterior capsule of the eye such that there is no space available between the intraocular lens implant and the lens capsule for lens epithelial cells to... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070255404 - Injectable intraocular lens that minimizes posterior capsule opacification and methods and materials for realizing same: Polymeric materials and methods that realize a gel-type intraocular lens that is formed in situ within the lens capsule of the eye. The polymeric material of the intraocular lens includes reactive end groups that effectively bond with lens capsule walls, thus eliminating space between the intraocular lens and the lens... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070255405 - Middle ear prosthesis: A middle ear prosthesis comprises a body of deformable material capable of retaining different shapes. The body comprises a slotted wall defining a cavity for receiving a bone of the middle ear. The wall is deformable proximate slots in the wall between an open position for receiving the bone and... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070255410 - Centrally driven expandable implant and method: Embodiments of the invention include expandable, implantable devices and methods. Devices expand linearly to provide secure fixation between or among anatomical structures. In some embodiments, an implant replaces one or more vertebral bodies of the spine.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070255406 - Devices, apparatus, and methods for bilateral approach to disc augmentation: A method of augmenting a nucleus pulposus of an intervertebral disc comprises forming a first opening in an annulus of the intervertebral disc and forming a second opening in the annulus of the intervertebral disc. The method further comprises providing a space creation instrument including an expandable spacing device and... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070255409 - Expandable implant, instrument, and method: Embodiments of the invention include expandable, implantable devices and methods. Devices expand linearly to provide secure fixation between or among anatomical structures. In some embodiments, an implant replaces one or more vertebral bodies of the spine.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070255411 - Facet arthroplasty devices and methods: Devices and surgical methods treat various types of adult spinal pathologies, such as degenerative spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, degenerative lumbar scoliosis, and kypho-scoliosis. Various types of spinal joint replacement prostheses, surgical procedures for performing spinal joint replacements, and surgical instruments are used to perform the surgical procedures.... Agent: Shayglenn LLP

20070255412 - Prosthetic device: A prosthetic device includes a first component and a second component. The first component of the prosthetic device includes a polymer composite configured as an articular surface and having a wear rate of less than approximately 10−7 mm3/Nm. The polymer composite includes a first polymer and a second polymer. The... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070255407 - Self-contained expandable implant and method: Embodiments of the invention include expandable, implantable devices and methods having internally contained expansion mechanisms. Devices expand linearly to provide secure fixation between or among anatomical structures. In some embodiments, an implant replaces one or more vertebral bodies of the spine.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070255408 - Stabilized, adjustable expandable implant and method: Embodiments of the invention include expandable, implantable devices and methods. Devices expand linearly to provide secure fixation between or among anatomical structures. In some embodiments, an implant replaces one or more vertebral bodies of the spine.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070255413 - Expandable intervertebral spacers and methods of use: An intervertebral spacer is inserted between vertebral members in a compact configuration and expanded post-insertion to contact the adjacent vertebral members. The intervertebral spacer comprises a first member and a second member movable with respect to the first member between retracted and extended positions.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070255415 - Expandable intervertebral spacers and methods of use: An intervertebral spacer is inserted between vertebral members in a compact configuration and expanded post-insertion to contact the adjacent vertebral members. The intervertebral spacer comprises a first member and a second member movable with respect to the first member between retracted and extended positions.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070255416 - Intervertebral implants with covered inner chamber and methods of use: The present application discloses intervertebral implants and methods of using the implants. The implants may include inferior and superior surfaces, and a sidewall that together form the body of the implant. An inner chamber is formed between the surfaces and the sidewall. An opening extends through the body to access... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070255414 - Intervertebral implants with one or more covers and methods of use: The present application is directed to intervertebral implants. The implants may include a body with superior and inferior surfaces, and a sidewall. An interior section may be positioned within the body and sized to contain bone growth material. An opening extends through one or both of the superior and inferior... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070255417 - Radiopaque prosthetic intervertebral disc nucleus: This invention relates to a hydrogel based on a copolymer comprising (a) at least one monomer comprising covalently bound iodine or bromine, and; (b) at least one hydrophilic monomer, wherein the hydrogel, when fully hydrated, has an elastic modulus between 0.01-100 MPa at 37° C. The invention also relates to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070255418 - Ball-type triple-joint implant system for upper or lower limbs: The invention relates to a system which is used to replace ball bone joints. The inventive system consists of: a bone anchoring shell (1) comprising a smooth articular surface (7) on the inner concave face thereof; a prosthesis (5) comprising a polished ball (4) and a neck (6) which is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070255419 - Prosthesis including a mechanism for attaching a first component to a second component: In one embodiment of the present invention a prosthesis including a mechanism for attaching a first component to a second component is provided. In one example (which example is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive), the first component may be a femoral head component and the second component may... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070255420 - Thrust plate hip prosthesis: A hip joint prosthesis that has a strap plate and a hollow, tapered femoral neck subassembly. The femoral neck includes a flanged force plate that radiates from a head stem base and abuts the femur. Several longitudinal ridges and/or an annular recess or other surface treatment at the head stem... Agent: Douglas L. Tschida

20070255421 - Locking expandable implant and method: Embodiments of the invention include expandable, implantable devices and methods with a locking feature. Devices expand linearly to provide secure fixation between or among anatomical structures. In some embodiments, an implant replaces one or more vertebral bodies of the spine.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070255422 - Calcium phosphate polymer composite and method: A bone-repair composite includes a core and a she