Implants

Sample Case Studies

Obesity Device

Client: Doctor with a Patent

Device: A molded device to reside in the gastric environment

Hantel Contributions: Preliminary prototypes, Animal evaluation, Concept generation and rapid prototype fabrication, Mold design and fabrication, delivery system design and fabrication, test method development, standards and literature research, Engineering design documentation, Verification Testing, Chronic studies.

Results: Concept to Chronic animal testing in 18 months

 

Cosmetic Device

Client: VC-backed Medical Device Start-up with a design

Device: Sub-cutaneous implant requiring primarily catheter assembly methods to build

Hantel Contributions: Transferred design documentation from client into the Hantel system, Documented Assembly methods and designed additional fixtures, Trained personnel and manufactured clinical units.

Results: Devices are currently used OUS. Manufacturing ongoing.

 

Implantable Pump

Client: Doctor with a Patent

Device: An implantable, rechargeable, adjustable, radio-linkable pump to move fluids within the body

Hantel Contributions: Pump mechanism design and prototyping, Materials Selection, Coatings research, Firmware, Hardware design and prototyping, In-vitro test development, In-vivo evaluation, Engineering requirements, assembly methods, design documentation, component tests, Chronic animal studies.

Result: Device taken from Concept to Chronic animal in 15 months.

 

Peripheral Vasculature Stent

Client: Pre-IPO Startup looking for additional stent IP

Device: Peripheral vasculature stent

Hantel Contributions: IP generation, Computational stent modeling, Project management of prototypes, Prototype evaluation.

Result: Ongoing prototyping work and patentable concepts for the client.

 

Percutaneous Valve Replacement Device

Client: Two doctors with an idea

Device: Percutaneously-delivered heart valve implant

Hantel Contributions: Intellectual Property, Design, Test method development, Test fixture design and fabrication, Assembly method and fixture development, Material selection, Prototype fabrication, In-vivo study design

Result: Concept to successful first In-vivo evaluation in 6 months