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20100234885 | PATENT FORAMEN OVALE CLOSURE SYSTEM - A patent foramen ovale closure device, method of delivering and a delivery system are provided. The device may include a closure device releasably connectable to an actuator. The device may include a proximal segment, an intermediate segment and a distal segment. When delivered, the proximal segment and intermediate segment form a first clip-shaped portion sized and configured to be positioned over a septum secundum of the patent foramen ovale, and the intermediate segment and distal segment form a second clip-shaped portion sized and configured to be positioned over a septum primum of the patent foramen ovale. | 09-16-2010 |
20120035643 | METHOD OF IMPLANTING AN ADJUSTABLE OCCLUSION DEVICE - Disclosed is an adjustable occlusion device for use in a body lumen such as the left atrial appendage. The occlusion device is removably carried by a deployment catheter. The device may be enlarged or reduced to facilitate optimal placement or removal. Methods are also disclosed. | 02-09-2012 |
20120065662 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE OCCLUSION - A device and method for obliterating or occluding a body cavity or passageway, in particular, the left atrial appendage of a patient's heart. The procedure can be carried out intraoperatively, but is preferably carried out percutaneously by use of a delivery catheter to position an occluding device adjacent a patient's left atrial appendage. The occluding device may prevent the passage of embolic or other material to or from the left atrial appendage by volumetrically filling the appendage, closing the opening of the appendage with an occluding member, or pulling the tissue around the opening of the appendage together and fixing it in a closed state. | 03-15-2012 |
20130012982 | IMPLANT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - Disclosed is an adjustable occlusion device for use in a body lumen such as the left atrial appendage. The occlusion device is removably carried by a deployment catheter. The device may be enlarged or reduced to facilitate optimal placement or removal. Methods are also disclosed. | 01-10-2013 |
20140148842 | METHOD OF IMPLANTING AN ADJUSTABLE OCCLUSION DEVICE - Disclosed is an adjustable occlusion device for use in a body lumen such as the left atrial appendage. The occlusion device is removably carried by a deployment catheter. The device may be enlarged or reduced to facilitate optimal placement or removal. Methods are also disclosed. | 05-29-2014 |
20140336699 | SYSTEM FOR LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE OCCLUSION - Disclosed is an occlusion device for use in a body lumen such as the left atrial appendage. The occlusion device includes an occlusion member and may also include a stabilizing member. The stabilizing member inhibits compression of the left atrial appendage, facilitating tissue in-growth onto the occlusion member. Methods are also disclosed. | 11-13-2014 |
20150039021 | IMPLANT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - Disclosed is an adjustable occlusion device for use in a body lumen such as the left atrial appendage. The occlusion device is removably carried by a deployment catheter. The device may be enlarged or reduced to facilitate optimal placement or removal. Methods are also disclosed. | 02-05-2015 |
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20120046840 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLE CONTROL DURING BRAKING OF THE VEHICLE - Methods and systems are provided for vehicle control during braking for vehicles having a transmission gear movable between at least a drive position and a neutral position. A wheel speed sensor measures a wheel speed of the wheel. A controller is coupled to the wheel speed sensor. The controller calculates a parameter using the wheel speed, and shifts the transmission gear from the drive position to the neutral position if the parameter exceeds a predetermined threshold. The parameter is indicative of a load on a component of the vehicle. | 02-23-2012 |
20120059539 | OUTPUT TORQUE MANAGEMENT IN A VEHICLE HAVING AN ELECTRIC POWERTRAIN - A method for managing a threshold increase in output torque capability in a vehicle includes detecting the threshold increase in output torque capability using a controller, and automatically limiting, via the controller, a rate of change of an actual output torque from a transmission of the vehicle in response to the threshold increase. The actual output torque is provided via a traction motor solely using battery power from an energy storage system. The method may include calculating a difference between the threshold increase and the actual output torque, and limiting the rate of change using a rate that is proportional to the difference. A vehicle includes the ESS, a transmission, and a controller. An output member of the transmission is powered using electrical energy from the ESS. The controller manages an increase in output torque capability as noted above. | 03-08-2012 |
20120089281 | METHOD AND DRIVELINE STABILITY CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE - A method for controlling driveline stability in a vehicle includes generating an activation signal indicative of a predetermined vehicle maneuver, which may include a hard braking maneuver on a low coefficient of friction surface. A quick automatic shift to a neutral gear state is executed with a rapid dumping or bleeding off of clutch pressure in a designated output clutch of the vehicle. An activated state of an antilock braking system (ABS) may be used as part of the activation signal. The shift to the neutral gear state may occur only when a current transmission operating state is associated with the high level of driveline inertia. A vehicle includes a transmission and a control system configured to execute the above method. | 04-12-2012 |
20120109479 | BLENDED BRAKING MANAGEMENT IN POWERTRAIN SYSTEMS - A method for operating a powertrain system including a torque machine coupled to a drive wheel of a vehicle includes determining a regenerative braking capacity of the powertrain system. In response to a net operator torque request including a braking torque request, a friction braking torque command to operate a friction brake system and a regenerative braking torque request for the torque machine are coincidentally generated, a torque command is generated for controlling operation of the torque machine in response to the regenerative braking torque request, and the friction braking torque command is adjusted by an amount corresponding to a difference between the braking torque request and the regenerative braking torque request. | 05-03-2012 |
20140038775 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO OPERATE A MULTI-MODE POWERTRAIN SYSTEM TO ACHIEVE LIGHT-OFF OF A CATALYTIC DEVICE - A multi-mode powertrain system employing a power-split configuration to transfer torque to a driveline includes an internal combustion engine fluidly coupled to an exhaust aftertreatment system having a catalytic device. A method for controlling the multi-mode powertrain system includes identifying permitted transition paths between a plurality of engine states. The plurality of engine states includes a default state, a pre-light-off state, a light-off state, and a post-light-off state. A preferred one of the plurality of engine states is selected in response to an output torque request and an operating temperature of the catalytic device. Engine operation is transitioned to the preferred one of the plurality of engine states via the permitted transition paths, and the engine is operated in the preferred one of the plurality of engine states. | 02-06-2014 |
20140350805 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A TRANSMISSION OF A VEHICLE - A method of controlling a transmission includes detecting an occurrence of a downshift in the transmission from a first gear ratio to a second gear ratio. A determination is made whether the vehicle is operating within a freeway speed range, and whether an accelerator pedal is depressed at least a minimum percentage of a fully depressed position. When the downshift from the high gear ratio to the low gear ratio is detected, the vehicle is operating within the freeway speed range, and the accelerator pedal is depressed at least the minimum percentage of the fully depressed position, a countdown timer is started to count down from a pre-defined time to zero. An upshift of the transmission from the second gear ratio to the first gear ratio is restricted while the countdown timer defines a time that is greater than zero. | 11-27-2014 |
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20090327351 | ELECTRONIC PRODUCT DESIGN - Automated electronic document design systems and method for designing and modifying product templates. When a user initiates a product design session, a product template is presented for user editing and a product description identifier is assigned to the product being designed. Document templates are assembled from individual composite elements. The individual identifiers of the component elements that make up the template being viewed by the user are associated with the description identifier. Tools are provided to allow a user to change one or more of the composite elements of the template. When a user changes an element, the identifier of the newly selected element is associated with the description identifier. Component elements of one template can be individually used, as appropriate, to prepare customized templates for another part of the same document or for different documents. | 12-31-2009 |
20100165369 | IMAGE CROPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user engaged in customizing an electronic product to re-crop product images in a manner that is compatible with the product layout. Upon selection of an image area in the product design, the user can choose to re-crop the image currently displayed in the image area or to select and crop a different image to be used in the selected image area. A cropping indicator that can be resized and repositioned is provided to the user. The cropping indicator is automatically sized to have and retain the same height to width ratio as the selected image area. Upon completion of any resizing or repositioning operation, the selected image area of the electronic product is updated to reflect the cropping changes made by the user. | 07-01-2010 |
20140089789 | Electronic Document Modification - Electronic document design methods and computer programs allowing a user to separately control and modify layout and the design components of an electronic document. A number of possible document layouts and possible document designs are stored. A document is based on the combination of one of the stored layouts and one of the stored designs. While the user is viewing the electronic document, controls are available to the user allowing the user to view and select among alternate layouts and designs for that document. Color schemes and font schemes for the document may also be separated controlled. | 03-27-2014 |
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20120094382 | MOLECULAR DELIVERY WITH NANOWIRES - A molecular delivery system including a plurality of nanowires (e.g., Si NWs), each of the nanowires having a surface layer formed of a silicon-containing material and a covalently bound linker (e.g., silane linker) attached to the surface layer and optionally including a substrate to which the nanowires are adhered or a molecule to be delivered attached to the linker. Also disclosed is a method of delivering into a cell an exogenous molecule. | 04-19-2012 |
20130260467 | MOLECULAR DELIVERY WITH NANOWIRES - A molecular delivery device including a plurality of nanowires (e.g., Si NWs) coated with an electrically conductive layer. Also disclosed are methods for delivering a molecule by nanowire-mediated electroporation. | 10-03-2013 |
20130284612 | NANOWIRES FOR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS - An electrical device including a substrate that has a surface and a plurality of electrically conductive nanowires, each of which has a first end and a second end. Each of the nanowires is formed of a semiconductor, a compound semiconductor, a metal, as or a combination thereof and is coated with an electrically insulating layer except for its first and second ends, the first end being attacked to the surface and the second end being coated with an electrically conductive layer. Also disclosed is a method of sending or receiving an electrical signal to or from a biological cell using the above-described device. | 10-31-2013 |
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20120245664 | THIN PROFILE STACKED LAYER CONTACT - A connector is described herein that includes a plurality of layers patterned in two dimensions and joined in a stack with a bore there through. At least a subset of the plurality of layers are contact layers that include deflectable members (e.g., springs) that deflect in plane or out of plane upon insertion of a lead into the bore through the connector. The deflectable members form redundant electrical connections with the lead when the lead is inserted into the bore. For example, the connector can be incorporated into an implantable medical device (e.g., IPG). Moreover, methods of manufacturing a connector are set forth herein. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246921 | FEED-THROUGH CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY FOR IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR AND METHOD OF USE - A connector assembly, and its method of assembly, for use in a medical device for connecting an IPG to a connector assembly for connecting the IPG to a relatively large plurality of electrodes that can support 24 or more stimulation channels for stimulating one or more stimulation regions of a patient. Also the IPG and the stimulation system and the stimulation therapy utilizing the connector assembly. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253424 | FEED-THROUGH CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY FOR IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR AND METHOD OF USE - A connector assembly for a medical device for connecting an IPG to a connector assembly for connecting the IPG to a relatively large plurality of electrodes that can support 24 or more stimulation channels for stimulating one or more stimulation regions of a patient. Also the IPG and the stimulation system and the stimulation therapy utilizing the connector assembly. | 10-04-2012 |
20120259381 | CONTACT ASSEMBLY FOR IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR AND METHOD OF USE - A contact assembly for a medical device and, more specifically, to a header contact assembly for achieving electrical contact with an in-line IPG lead utilizing a contact structure such as a “toroidal spring in groove” device. | 10-11-2012 |
20130110209 | FEED-THROUGH CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY FOR IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR AND METHOD OF USE | 05-02-2013 |
20130131769 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTION TO FEEDTHROUGH - An implantable electronic device includes a housing wall defining an interior surface and an exterior surface. A feedthrough assembly includes a body coupled to the housing and defining an aperture, and a pin at least partially disposed within the aperture and passing through the housing wall from the interior surface to the exterior surface such that the pin has an interior portion and an exterior portion. A printed circuit board (PCB) has a substantially rigid portion defining a plane and a substantially flexible portion. The flexible portion has a distal end and a proximal end. The proximal end is coupled to the substantially rigid portion. The flexible portion is coupled to the pin interior portion adjacent the distal end. The flexible portion defines a bend between the proximal end and the distal end. At least one line tangent to the flexible portion is substantially perpendicular to the plane. | 05-23-2013 |
20130197610 | SUPERPLASTIC FORMING FOR TITANIUM IMPLANT ENCLOSURES - A titanium alloy metal sheet is provided and heated to a superplastic forming temperature. A die has a plurality of housing forming areas each corresponding to one of the medical device housing portions. The heated titanium alloy metal sheet is forced onto the die and over each one of the plurality of housing forming areas, thereby superplastically forming a workpiece comprising a plurality of integrally formed implantable medical device housing portions. | 08-01-2013 |
20140237806 | CONTACT ASSEMBLY FOR IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR AND METHOD OF USE - A method of assembling a contact assembly for installation in a medical device, and more specifically, a header contact assembly for installation in an implantable medical device for achieving electrical contact with an in-line IPG lead for implanted electrodes, the assembly utilizing a contact structure such as a “toroidal spring in groove” device. | 08-28-2014 |