Donald Ray Mcmichael, 58440 Dry Creek Rd, Summerville, GA 30747

7124489, Oct 24, 2006

Nov 30, 2002

10/306992

Thomas Gregory Triebes - Alpharetta GA, US
Michael Allen Kenowski - Pocatello ID, US
Donald J. McMichael - South Jordan UT, US

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

A61M 25/00

29428, 295271, 604915, 604921, 264239, 264259

A process for producing a catheter having a head, a shaft, a distal end, and a tip member wherein the tip member is secured onto the distal end of the catheter during production of the tip member. Another embodiment of the present invention is directed to a process for producing a catheter. The process including providing a catheter with a proximal end, a shaft, an interior, an exterior, and a distal end; and producing a balloon member having a proximal end and a distal end; wherein the distal end of the balloon member is attached to the distal end of the catheter during production of the balloon member.

D561329, Feb 5, 2008

Oct 4, 2006

29/267081

Donald J. McMichael - Roswell GA, US
Mark Elliott Foster - Cumming GA, US

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

2401

D24108, D24129

7534224, May 19, 2009

Nov 30, 2002

10/306999

Thomas Gregory Triebes - Alpharetta GA, US
Michael Allen Kenowski - Pocatello ID, US
Donald J. McMichael - South Jordan UT, US
Netty Dawn DiViesti - Pocatello ID, US
Daniel Kermit Hill - Blackfoot ID, US

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neehah WI

A61M 29/00

604104

A unitary component having a tip portion integrally formed with an expandable sleeve portion. Other aspects of the present invention are related to a catheter incorporating a unitary component. Still other aspects of the present invention will be apparent upon reading the remainder of the disclosure.

7850714, Dec 14, 2010

Dec 15, 2006

11/640449

John A. Rotella - Alpharetta GA, US
Donald J. McMichael - Roswell GA, US
Luis A. Davila - Alpharetta GA, US
Alphonse DeMarco - Tucson AZ, US

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

A61B 17/04

606232

The invention describes an apparatus and method of use for anchoring two or more body tissue layers to one another. The apparatus includes a plurality of individual anchor segments that are placeable within a body cavity. The segments may assume a first relaxed state wherein the segments are movable relative to each other and alignable along an initial longitudinal axis for initial placement of the apparatus through the body tissue layers. Once placed within the body cavity, the anchor segments are manipulated into a second rigid state with an actuator wherein the segments assume a rigid configuration at a transverse angle relative to the initial longitudinal axis.

7867253, Jan 11, 2011

Aug 31, 2007

11/848495

Donald Jay McMichael - Roswell GA, US
John Anthony Rotella - Roswell GA, US
Nathan Christopher Griffith - Roswell GA, US
Thomas Gregory Estes - Atlanta GA, US

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

A61B 17/04

606232

A suture retention hub is provided. It includes a base configured to moveably hold a handle within at least a portion of the base. The base has an aperture which extends through the base. The hub also includes a handle configured to moveably fit into the portion of the base. The handle has an aperture formed therethough as well. When a suture is positioned in the apertures and the base and handle are positioned such that the apertures are substantially in an axial alignment, the suture moves readily through the apertures in the hub. Then the base and handle are positioned such that the apertures are not in a substantial axial alignment, the suture is frictionally crimped and it is prevented from moving through the hub.

8142394, Mar 27, 2012

Dec 23, 2010

12/977359

John A. Rotella - Roswell GA, US
Adrienne A. Hershey - Cumming GA, US
Donald J. McMichael - Roswell GA, US

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

A61M 29/00

60410003

A balloon catheter device, for example an enteral feeding catheter, includes a catheter having a proximal end, a distal end, and catheter walls defining a catheter lumen. A base is located at the proximal end of the catheter and has an opening to the catheter lumen. An inflatable balloon is located at a distal end of the catheter and is inflated through an inflation valve located on the base. An internal cavity is defined in the base and is in fluid communication with the inflatable balloon such that fluid used to inflate the balloon to an operational fill volume fills the internal cavity as well. A translucent window is disposed over the internal cavity such that an interior volume of the cavity is externally viewable. Introduction of a colored fluid through the inflation valve to inflate the balloon results in the colored fluid also being present in the internal cavity, thereby providing an externally visual indication of the inflation state of the balloon.

8142418, Mar 27, 2012

Dec 19, 2007

11/960052

Donald J. McMichael - Roswell GA, US
Nathan Griffith - Roswell GA, US

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

A61M 25/16
A61M 25/18

604537, 604246, 604247, 604256, 604533, 604535, 604539

An in-line connector for use in an enteral feeding system includes a first component connectable to a first feeding device of the feeding system, and a second component connectable to a second feeding device of the feeding system. A releasable coupling is configured between the first and second components, wherein in a connected state the first and second components define a fluid passage between the different feeding devices. Each of the first and second components includes a one-way automatic shutoff valve configured therein such that in a disconnected state of the components, the shutoff valve in the first component prevents flow out of the first component in a first direction and the shutoff valve in the second component prevents flow out of the second component in a second direction that is opposite from the first direction.

8147449, Apr 3, 2012

Jun 14, 2006

11/922296

Fred Gobel - Wilhelmsfeld, DE
Donald Jay McMichael - Roswell GA, US
Lanita Grayce Cox - Suwanee GA, US

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

A61M 29/00

604 9601, 60416401, 60410307

The invention describes a closure device for the provision of freshly created gastric feeding fistulas, the basis of the design of the device being an introverted balloon that allows a sealing and hemostatic axial traction movement on the fistula that is to be sealed, the concentric balloon ends which run transmurally through the stomach and abdominal wall being arranged in a special seal-promoting and hemostatic manner.