Medical Devices: Technology, Emerging Sectors, Patent Trends and Roadblocks

Medical Devices

Technology, Emerging Sectors,
Patent Trends and Roadblocks

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Medical Device Technology Areas - 1
• Computerized devices, IT systems
Electronics • Robotic devices
• Wireless systems

SYNTHETIC • Artificial organ, Organ Assistive Devices
ORGANS/TISSUES • Biocompatibility technologies
COMBINATION • Infection-inhibiting devices
PRODUCTS

INVASIVENESS • Photonic devices, Acoustic devices
REDUCING • Molecular therapies
TECHNOLOGIES • Miniaturized devices, Imaging Devices/Systems


Medical Device Technology Growth

Asia • Consistent Growth Rate of
14%

• From 2005-2007, created
80,000 new jobs & a
workforce growth of 20%

US • From 2007-2009, R&D
investment increased by 9%
• Now facing unprecedented
challenges that could prove
catastrophic


Medical Device Technology Areas - 2
DECENTRALIZED- • Home/self care devices
CARE • Portable/mobile devices
TECHNOLOGIES • Telemedicine systems

DEMOGRAPHIC • Aging-related devices
TECHNOLOGIES • Enhancement/augmentation products

DETECTION,
• Genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epigenomics
DIAGNOSTIC, • Early detection and diagnosis, Personalized medicine
MONITORING • Sensor technologies, Patient monitoring systems
TECHNOLOGIES

Medical Device Technology Areas –
Emerging Sectors

LDT
Personalized Laboratory
Medicine Developed
Medical model: Tests
In Vitro Diagnostics
Customization of (IVDs)
healthcare

Medical decisions,
Classified as
Practices, Products
Medical Devices by
tailored to the
FDA, USA
individual patient


Medical Device Technology Innovations - 1


C-Pulse Patents - US7740575
Fluid pressure generating means
A fluid pressure generating means (10) for a heart assist device
having blood pumping means. The pressure generating means
(10) includes a housing (11), defining an interior volume (18),
and having a substantially rigid first housing portion (12), a
substantially rigid second housing portion (14), a flexible third
housing portion (16) extending between the first (12) and
second (14) housing portions and an inlet/outlet port (15)
adapted for fluid communication with the blood pumping
means. The pressure generating means (10) also includes a fluid
filling the housing and a motor (20) disposed within the
housing (11) and connected between the first (12) and second
(14) housing portions. Actuation of the motor (20) moves the
first (12) and second (14) housing portions relative to one
another to generate fluid pressure changes at the inlet/outlet
port (15). A related heart assist device and method for the
treatment of congestive heart failure, myocardial ischemia and
like conditions are also disclosed.

Synchronization control system
The invention claimed is:

1. In an apparatus for controlling the pulsations of a
heart assist device to alternate between compression of a
blood vessel and withdrawal of compression of the blood
vessel in a timed relationship with the pulsing of a
patient's heart, wherein said heart assist device
comprising:
a pump for generating fluid pressure; an
inflatable cuff for applying said pressure to blood in a
blood vessel;
a fluid for transmitting said pressure between
said pump for generating fluid pressure and said
inflatable cuff for applying said pressure,
the improvement comprising a microphone positioned
within said fluid, the microphone being adapted to
detect heart sounds in said blood vessel conveyed to said
microphone through said fluid.

Heart assist devices, systems and methods

An apparatus and method for use in assisting a
human heart are disclosed. The apparatus
comprises an aortic compression means which
may be fully implanatable, a fluid reservoir and a
pump means adapted to pump a fluid from the
reservoir to the aortic compression means so as
to actuate the aortic compression means at least
partly in counterpulsation with the patient's
heart. In addition, the device is adapted to be
wholly positioned within the right chest cavity
of the patient. The aortic compression means of
the device may be curved along its length so as
to substantially replicate the curve of the
ascending aorta.


Wrap for a heart assist device
A heart assist device in which an inflatable balloon or chamber is held against an outside
surface of a curved arterial vessel by a wrap (20) formed from a flexible sheet-like
material. The wrap (20) having a first end portion (22), a second end portion (30) and an
intermediate portion (26) connecting together the first and second end portions (22, 30).
The intermediate portion (26) comprising at least three separate elongate sections (26a-c)
arranged in side by side array each connected at each end to a respective one of the end
portions (22, 30) of the wrap (20). The improvement in that the laterally outer ones
(26a,b) of the elongate sections are longer than the central one (26c) of them. As a result,
if the wrap (20) was laid on a planar surface, the central (26c) one of the elongate sections
would lie substantially in that plane and the laterally outer ones (26a,b) of the elongate
sections would, intermediate their ends, project above that plane.

And many more Patents….


Medical Device Technology Innovations - 2
Spyder –WIRELESS ECG SENSOR & DISPLAY
by WEB Biotechnology Pte Ltd, Singapore

• World’s smallest, wireless ECG sensor and display

• Displays ECG waveform

• Provides accurate measurement of heart rate and metabolic rate on the fly

• Uses advanced wireless technology

• Capable of recording ECG information continuously on a mobile phone and
transmit the data in real-time to a computer server

• Vital information such as a patient’s ECG rhythm can now be accessed by
authorised physicians or specialists at anytime.

Spyder Patent - PCT/SG2011/000105
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC MONITORING SYSTEM

According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided an electrocardiographic
monitoring system including: a housing configured to be attached to a creature body part,
the housing including: a plurality of electrodes confined within the boundary of the
housing, the plurality of electrodes arranged a distance apart from each other and
accessible from a same exterior surface of the housing; a signal processor configured to
receive signals from any one or more of the plurality of electrodes and transmit signals to
any one or more of the plurality of electrodes; and a transmitter configured to transmit
signals from the signal processor.

Medical Device Technology– Latest Trends
Renewable &
Sustainable
Energy

Combination Revolutionary Remote
Patient
Devices Healthcare Monitoring

Medical
Robotics


Innovative Medical Devices– Latest Trends
Remote
Fetal
Monitoring

Adaptive
Remote Wireless
Innovative
Cardiac Pulse
Medical
Monitoring Devices
Monitor

Electro
Enphagraphy
(EEG)


Medical Device Technology Innovations –
Roadblocks

High Complex
Price Regulations

Talent & Medical
Development
Gap Errors

Market
Uncertainty

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