DAVID ANDREW WATSON, PT
Physical Therapy at Centerville Rd, Warwick, RI

5792104, Aug 11, 1998

Dec 10, 1996

8/761965

Lori Cone Speckman - Ventura CA
David A. Watson - East Greenwich RI

Medtronic, Inc. - Minneapolis MN

A61M 500

604 93

A subcutaneously implantable vascular access port includes a base which defines a plurality of fluid cavities separated by a dividing wall configured to provide an outlet duct for each fluid cavity, wherein the outlet ducts are staggered along the length of the dividing wall, a cap configured to receive the base and which includes a plurality of septum access apertures aligned with the fluid cavities, and a single self-sealing septum captured between the cap and the base. An outlet stem exits the base and communicates with the fluid cavities therein. The outlet stem has two prongs formed in a side-by-side configuration extending outwardly from the base. Fluid injected into a fluid cavity through the septum flows through a smooth transition region in which the cross-sectional area is smoothly reduced from the corresponding fluid cavity. A locking sleeve provides radial inward pressure upon the catheter which is slid over the outlet stem, thereby insuring that the catheter remains mounted on the outlet stem.

5637083, Jun 10, 1997

Jan 19, 1996

8/588822

William J. Bertrand - Ventura CA
David A. Watson - East Greenwich RI

Pudenz-Schulte Medical Research Corporation - Goleta CA

A61M 500

604 9

A subcutaneously implantable and percutaneously adjustable fluid flow control device includes a magnetically adjustable valve for controlling fluid flow from an inlet to an outlet. The valve includes a housing having a fluid passageway therethrough, a valve element designed to bear upon a valve seat to close the passageway to fluid flow, and a spring which biases the valve element against the valve seat so as to keep the passageway closed until a fluid pressure differential between the inlet and the outlet exceeds a selected valve opening pressure. A fixed dual concentric stair-step array and an overlying rotor assembly permit the amount of bias applied to the valve element by the spring to be adjusted. The rotor assembly is adapted to rotate in response to an external or percutaneously-applied magnetic field. In one embodiment, the rotor assembly may be locked into one of several possible rotational positions relative to the stair-step array to prevent rotation thereof.