Patents Examined by Bradley H Philips
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Patent number: 11154217Abstract: A breathing apparatus (1) is disclosed that is adapted to determine a transpulmonary pressure in a patient (125) when connected to said breathing apparatus. A control unit (105) is operable to set a first mode of operation for ventilating said patient with a first Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) level; set a second mode of operation for ventilating said patient with a second PEEP level starting from said first PEEP level; and determine said transpulmonary pressure (Ptp) based on a change in end-expiratory lung volume (?EELV) and a difference between said first PEEP level and said second PEEP level (?PEEP). Furthermore, a method and computer program are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: The Lung Barometry Sweden ABInventor: Ola Stenqvist
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Patent number: 11154680Abstract: A headgear for a respiratory mask has first and second straps configured to be connected to each other by first and second buckles. The straps are configured to overlap in a region that contacts the rear of a user's head. The overlapping regions of the first and second straps can be positioned in a bifurcated configuration to improve stability on a user's head. The first and second buckles can feature a glider end through which one of the first and second straps can slide and a strap attachment end to which the other strap is permanently connected. In some embodiments, the first and second buckles have two components that are pivotally connected to allow adjustment of the headgear size whilst in a bifurcated configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Bruce Michael Walls, Matthew Roger Stephenson, Jeremy Owen Young
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Patent number: 11141318Abstract: A wound dressing comprising: a backing sheet; a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive on the backing sheet; an island of absorbent material having smaller area than the backing sheet and applied onto a central region of the backing sheet so as to leave a margin of adhesive-coated backing sheet around the absorbent material, and an apertured wound facing layer applied over the absorbent material and adhered to the backing sheet around said island by said pressure-sensitive adhesive, wherein the apertured wound facing layer comprises an apertured substrate having a coating of a silicone gel on the wound facing surface thereof, the open area of the apertured wound facing layer is from about 5% to about 75%, and the apertured wound facing layer comprises apertures having an open area of from about 2 mm2 to about 100 mm2.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: KCl USA, INC.Inventors: William Pigg, Michelle Delbono, Sally Stephens
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Patent number: 11123236Abstract: An absorbent article can include a bodyside liner, an outer cover, and an absorbent body disposed between the bodyside liner and the outer cover. The bodyside liner can be treated with a surfactant. A component of the absorbent article can be treated with a hydrophobically modified polymer. The hydrophobically modified polymer can be configured to interact with the surfactant upon wetting of the absorbent article when the surfactant and the hydrophobically modified polymer are in an aqueous solution to increase surface tension of the aqueous solution.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Vinod Chaudhary, Sarah Hartman
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Patent number: 11116932Abstract: An expiratory valve (10) of a ventilation device (100) is provided, including a valve body (12) having a fluid inlet (14) and a fluid outlet (16) for breathing air of a patient formed therein. The valve body (12) has at least one reinforcing rib (36, 38) formed around the fluid inlet (14).Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: HAMILTON MEDICAL AGInventors: Felix Breitruck, Dino De-Stefani
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Patent number: 11071848Abstract: A receiver for securing at least one tube in a patient includes a shell operable in a first position for receiving the tube and a second position for securing the tube, and a compressible member supported by the shell for contacting the tube in the second position. A bridle looped around the patient's septum may also be secured in the second position. A system for securing the tube includes a receiver and an applier. The applier supports the receiver in the first position and transitions the receiver from the first position to the second position after the tube is positioned within the receiver. A method of securing a tube includes positioning the tube in a patient, placing a flexible member around the patient's nasal septum, receiving the tube and flexible member in a shell supported by an applier, and operating the applier to move the shell to a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: KIRN MEDICAL DESIGN, LLCInventors: David S. Kirn, Kevin J Maudsley
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Patent number: 11071336Abstract: A mask includes a housing defining (1) an inner layer, an outer layer, and a volume in between, (2) a mouth aperture to be disposed about a mouth of a user, (3) a side aperture to allow fluid flow into and out of the housing, (4) an oral fluid pathway extending from the mouth aperture to the side aperture, and (5) a nasal aperture to be disposed adjacent to nostrils of the user. The mask also includes a nasal channel extending from the nasal aperture and to a nasal exit aperture. The housing is configured to route (1) fluid flow received at the mouth aperture distally through the oral fluid pathway, and (2) fluid flow received at the side aperture proximally through the oral fluid pathway. The nasal channel is configured to route fluid flow received at the nasal aperture distally through the nasal fluid pathway.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: MPOINTAERO INC.Inventors: Vladimir Egorovich Belousov, Maksim Vladimirovich Belousov
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Patent number: 11071836Abstract: A medicament device sensor (Sensor) comprises a body, a front wall, a back wall, an audio sensor, and a plurality of pressure sensors. The body includes a bottom surface on which the various sensors are coupled. The front wall and the back wall provide mirror symmetry in at most one plane, thereby defining a single orientation in which the Sensor attaches to the medicament device. The front wall includes a securement clip that attaches to a ledge on the medicament device. To detect secure attachment of the Sensor to the medicament device, one pressure sensor detects pressure when the Sensor is secured to the medicament device. Another one or more pressure sensors detect depression of one or more dosing buttons confirming priming of the medicament device. The audio sensor detects an inhalation confirming dispensing of medicament. In effect, the Sensor determines a dispensing event has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Reciprocal Labs CorporationInventors: Samuel A. Koblenski, Gregory F. Tracy, David Hubanks, Amber Michelle Markey, Benjamin J. Kopp, Justin Conrad Krosschell, Leah J. Morrell
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Patent number: 11065412Abstract: An interface for positive pressure therapy includes a mask assembly and a headgear assembly. The mask assembly comprises a mask seal that is adapted to underlie the nose. The mask seal extends up the lateral sides of the nose. The mask seal has a primary seal below the nose and a secondary seal alongside the nose.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Matthew Roger Stephenson, Melissa Catherine Bornholdt
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Patent number: 11065170Abstract: A smart medical rehabilitation device comprises a driving unit, a linkage unit, a sensing unit and a rehabilitation evaluating unit that are mounted on a frame, wherein the linkage unit comprises a link mechanism and a slide mechanism linked thereto so that the slide mechanism can be moved together with the link mechanism, wherein the slide mechanism is driven by the driving unit to slide along the groove plate, the link mechanism is linked to move with the slide mechanism thus the link mechanism moves to the corresponding position so that the slide mechanism can assist a training object in performing lower limb rehabilitation training, and the rehabilitation evaluating unit evaluates the physical status and rehabilitation status of the training object according to the physiological information and exercise information of the same collected by the sensing unit, and adjusts the exercise frequency and the exercise duration of the training object according to the physical status in real time.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jiaoyun Yang, Ping Zhao, Lihong Zhu, Liang Zhang, Ning An, Ping Zhang
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Patent number: 11052018Abstract: A vibrating ingestible capsule includes a housing having a longitudinal axis, and having a vibrating agitator adapted such that, in a first vibrating mode of operation, the housing exerts vibrations on an environment surrounding the capsule. A power supply disposed within the housing is adapted to power the vibrating agitator. A temperature sensor provides temperature information signals with respect to a temperature in an environment surrounding the vibrating ingestible capsule over a period of time.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Vibrant Ltd.Inventor: Shai Molnar
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Patent number: 11052217Abstract: A humidifier comprises a water reservoir and a reservoir dock configured to receive the water reservoir in an operative position. The water reservoir is configured to hold a volume of liquid. The water reservoir includes a chamber and a single conduit providing an inner opening arranged within the chamber. The reservoir dock includes a dock inlet conduit arranged to receive the flow of air from the RPT device. The dock inlet conduit is structured and arranged to extend within the single conduit of the water reservoir when the water reservoir reaches the operative position such that the dock inlet conduit and the single conduit at least partially overlap one another.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Joseph Samuel Ormrod, Michael James Dent, Wei Liang Lau
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Patent number: 11051993Abstract: The present invention provides an applicator improved so that the entirety of the tampon may be reliably inserted into vagina. A raised portion is located on an exterior surface of an inner tube in the vicinity of a rear end thereof and put in a slidable contact with a part of an interior surface of an outer tube. The raised portion has an outer shape having a width dimension gradually increasing rearward from an apex located on a front end.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Yamaki, Akie Kinoshita
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Patent number: 11033441Abstract: A diaper structure with enhanced softness attributes is disclosed. The diaper structure may include an innermost layer formed of a first nonwoven web, and an outermost layer formed of a second nonwoven web. The first and second nonwoven webs may have a combined basis weight of at least about 30 gsm. The ratio of the first web basis weight to the second web basis weight may range from 30/70 to 70/30.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Han Xu, John Ferrer
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Patent number: 11020555Abstract: A tracheostomy tube introducer (1) has a patient end region (10) on which the tube (2) is mounted and that is curved in one sense. The introducer has a machine end region (11) projecting from the rear end of the tube (2) to provide a handle that curves in the opposite sense to the patient end region (10) so that the introducer has an S shape along its length. A bore (24) for a guide member extends from the patient end tip (14) of the introducer and opens in the machine end region (11) through a side opening (25). The introducer 1 is provided in a kit (200) with the tracheostomy tube (2) and a dilator (202) having the same general S shape as the introducer.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Smiths Medical International LimitedInventors: Andrew Thomas Jeffrey, Christopher John Woosnam
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Patent number: 11020558Abstract: A patient interface includes a sealing arrangement adapted to provide an effective seal with the patient's nose, an inlet conduit arrangement adapted to deliver breathable gas to the sealing arrangement, and a cover that substantially encloses the sealing arrangement and/or the inlet conduit arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Philip Rodney Kwok, Lee James Veliss, Philip John Gunning, Robert Edward Henry, Gregory Robert Peake, Bruce David Gregory, Karthikeyan Selvarajan, Clive Solari, Scott Douglas Brackenreg
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Patent number: 11020311Abstract: A therapeutic device for stimulating the anatomy of the cervical spine and neck is provided and includes a housing having an upper portion configured for receiving and cradling the cervical spine and the neck. The therapeutic device includes a motorized rotor assembly having a plurality of rollers. The rotor assembly rotating about a first axis and the plurality of rollers rotating independently from one another and about axes spaced from the first axis. The rotor assembly is configured to transmit percussive energy to the cervical spine and the neck.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventors: Ronald G. Hotchkiss, Gregory S. Marler
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Patent number: 11013642Abstract: A disposable absorbent pant that includes a central chassis and a belt structure is disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Sarah Marie Wade, Gary Dean Lavon, Miguel Alvaro Robles
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Patent number: 10987274Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing percussive ventilation therapy to a patient airway preferably includes at least one driver unit configured to provide pressurized, non-pulsate gas. At least one patient interface device preferably has structure configured to (i) receive the pressurized, non-pulsate gas from the at least one driver unit and transform it into a pulsed and pressurized gas, and (ii) supply at least one sub tidal volume of pulsed and pressurized gas to a patient through a patient connection orifice. At least one flexible tube is preferably configured to provide pressurized, non-pulsate gas from the at least one driver unit to the at least one patient interface device. Preferably, at least one portion of the patient interface device is disposable, and another portion may be reusable. Preferably, the invention uses Adaptive Dynamic Subtidal Ventilation technology.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Inventor: Adel Bougatef
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Patent number: 10973709Abstract: In one embodiment, an array of packages may comprise three or more different sizes of disposable absorbent articles. The Product Hip-to-Waist Silhouette of a second absorbent article may be equal to or less than a Product Hip-to-Waist Silhouette of a first absorbent article. And the Product Hip-to-Waist Silhouette of a third absorbent article may be equal to or less than a Product Hip-to-Waist Silhouette of a second absorbent article. And, an Array Average Product Hip-to-Waist Silhouette of first and second packages of the array may be from about 1.1 to about 0.9.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Bret Darren Seitz, Gary Dean LaVon, Jill Trygier, Vanessa Melendez