Abstract: According to aspects illustrated herein, a system, a method, and a machine-readable medium for designing business process applications is provided. The system includes: an application design interface and an object query language module. The application design interface provides an integrated development environment framework. The object query language module is operatively connected to the application design interface and a data source such that data flows between the application design interface and the data source.

Abstract: Provided is a minimally invasive cavity formation instrument for forming tissue cavities. The instrument includes an end effector having an aperture through which a cutting element is laterally extended and retracted. The cutting element may be retracted for minimally invasive insertion into a tissue region and extended to form a tissue cavity. The end effector of the instrument may be articulated or rotated to facilitate cavity formation.

Abstract: Provided is a medical device for forming or modifying cavities in tissue. Versions include a blade extendable laterally from a first shape to a second shape to cut tissue in a controlled manner. The first shape may be configured for insertion in accordance with minimally invasive procedures and the second shape may be configured for cutting or forming cavities.

Abstract: Provided is an articulating cavitation device configured to cut cancellous bone wholly within a vertebra. The articulating cavitation device includes an end effector, having an extendable cutting element, configured to articulate relative to an insertion tube. The end effector of the cavitation device may be articulated and rotated with the cutting element extended to form a tissue cavity about multiple axes.

Abstract: Provided is a minimally invasive cavity formation instrument for forming tissue cavities. The instrument includes an end effector having an aperture through which a cutting element is laterally extended and retracted. The cutting element may be retracted for minimally invasive insertion into a tissue region and extended to form a tissue cavity. The end effector of the instrument may be articulated or rotated to facilitate cavity formation.

Abstract: Provided is a minimally invasive cavity formation instrument for forming tissue cavities. The instrument includes an end effector having an aperture through which a cutting element is laterally extended and retracted. The cutting element may be retracted for minimally invasive insertion into a tissue region and extended to form a tissue cavity. The end effector of the instrument may be articulated or rotated to facilitate cavity formation.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for repairing damaged tendons or ligaments. Various repair apparatus include an elongate tensile member and a pair of anchor assemblies connected for movement along the tensile member on either side of a repair site, such as a tear or laceration. The anchor assemblies or structures may take many forms, and may include barbed, helical, and crimp-type anchors. In the preferred embodiments, at least one anchor structure is movable along the elongate tensile member to assist with adjusting a tendon segment to an appropriate repair position and the anchor structure or structures are then lockable onto the elongate tensile member to assist with affixing the tendon at the repair position. Tendon and/or ligament-to-bone repair apparatus and methods employ similar concepts.

Abstract: A system is described for docketing court receipts. The system may receive court receipts from a court and scan the court receipts for docket information that may be used to create docket entries and events. The system may associate the court receipts with preexisting case dockets. The system may retrieve and store case documents referenced in the court receipts from an online server. The system may apply applicable court rules to information retrieved from the court receipts to generate events. The docket entries and events created by the system may be used to generate and/or update case dockets efficiently and accurately.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for repairing damaged tendons or ligaments. Various repair apparatus include an elongate tensile member and a pair of anchor assemblies connected for movement along the tensile member on either side of a repair site, such as a tear or laceration. The anchor assemblies or structures may take many forms, and may include barbed, helical, and crimp-type anchors. In the preferred embodiments, at least one anchor structure is movable along the elongate tensile member to assist with adjusting a tendon segment to an appropriate repair position and the anchor structure or structures are then lockable onto the elongate tensile member to assist with affixing the tendon at the repair position. Tendon and/or ligament-to-bone repair apparatus and methods employ similar concepts.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for repairing damaged tendons or ligaments. Various repair apparatus include an elongate tensile member and a pair of anchor assemblies connected for movement along the tensile member on either side of a repair site, such as a tear or laceration. The anchor assemblies or structures may take many forms, and may include barbed, helical, and crimp-type anchors. In the preferred embodiments, at least one anchor structure is movable along the elongate tensile member to assist with adjusting a tendon segment to an appropriate repair position and the anchor structure or structures are then lockable onto the elongate tensile member to assist with affixing the tendon at the repair position. Tendon and/or ligament-to-bone repair apparatus and methods employ similar concepts.

Abstract: Provided is a flowable material delivery system and method comprising one or a plurality of tentacles associated with an inflatable member. The tentacles are configured to deliver bone cement to a vertebral cavity upon reduction of a vertebral compression fracture. The tentacles may be coupled with the outer surface of an inflatable member or pass through the inflatable member to deliver a flowable material to a tissue cavity.

Abstract: Provided is an articulating cavitation device configured to cut cancellous bone wholly within a vertebra. The articulating cavitation device includes an end effector, having an extendable cutting element, configured to articulate relative to an insertion tube. The end effector of the cavitation device may be articulated and rotated with the cutting element extended to form a tissue cavity about multiple axes.

Abstract: Provided is a minimally invasive cavity formation instrument for forming tissue cavities. The instrument includes an end effector having an aperture through which a cutting element is laterally extended and retracted. The cutting element may be retracted for minimally invasive insertion into a tissue region and extended to form a tissue cavity. The end effector of the instrument may be articulated or rotated to facilitate cavity formation.

Abstract: Provided is a medical device for forming or modifying cavities in tissue. Versions include a blade extendable laterally from a first shape to a second shape to cut tissue in a controlled manner. The first shape may be configured for insertion in accordance with minimally invasive procedures and the second shape may be configured for cutting or forming cavities.

Abstract: Provided is a medical device for restoring the anatomy of bones comprising at least one inflatable device, where the inflatable device may be inflated to facilitate reconstituting the bone. Disclosed are a plurality of inflatable devices that may be used in combination in accordance with methods for reconstituting a fractured bone or other tissue.

Abstract: Provided is a medical device for restoring the integrity of vessels comprising a closure button insertable therein, where the closure button is adapted to plug a hole or port in a vessel to prevent blood loss, for use in an intervertebral disc herniation, or for use in a crushed vertebral body.

Abstract: Provided is an intervertebral implant operably configured to maintain limited mobility between adjacent vertebrae. Versions of the intervertebral implant may take the place of an intervertebral disk and may function in a manner substantially similar to an intervertebral disk. In one version, the intervertebral implant includes a spacer having a first surface conducive to bone fusion and a second surface resistant to bone fusion.

Abstract: A suture cutter assembly has a cutter blade axially reciprocable relative to a tube having at least one opening. An offset is in the tube or the cutter blade for capturing of the severed portion of the suture as the blade is advanced within the tube. A suture cutter assembly includes a recess formed in a shaft which is axially reciprocable within a tube. The recess is configured to receive at least a portion of a severed suture segment. The reception of a severed suture segment portion in the recess may reduce crimping of the severed suture segment between the shaft and the tube, thereby reducing the amount of force required to reciprocate the shaft within the tube when the severed suture segment is positioned between the shaft and the tube.

Abstract: The present inventors have devised, among other things, an application design interface and related tools that facilitates development of business process applications.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for repairing damaged tendons or ligaments. Various repair apparatus include an elongate tensile member and a pair of anchor structures connected for movement along the tensile member on either side of a repair site, such as a tear or laceration. The anchor structures may take many forms, and may include barbed, helical, and crimp-type anchors. In the preferred embodiments, at least one anchor structure is movable along the elongate tensile member to assist with adjusting a tendon segment to an appropriate repair position and the anchor structure or structures are then lockable onto the elongate tensile member to assist with affixing the tendon at the repair position. The invention further provides tendon-to-bone repair apparatus and methods employing similar concepts. Tendon retrieval devices of the invention include helical members for rotating into a tendon end and subsequently moving the tendon to an appropriate operating position.