Patents Examined by Guy K Townsend
  • Negative pressure wound therapy dressings comprising (meth)acrylate pressure-sensitive adhesive with enhanced adhesion to wet surfaces
    Patent number: 11660371
    Abstract: Negative pressure wound dressings comprising pressure-sensitive adhesives with enhanced adhesion to wet surfaces, obtained from crosslinking a pre-adhesive composition comprising poly(meth)acrylate macromolecules that comprise a number-average molecular weight of from about 25000 to about 200000, and methods of using such dressings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Joon Chatterjee, Simon S. Fung
  • Drainage device comprising a filter cleaning device
    Patent number: 11660562
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a filtering device for removing particles from a bodily fluid of a patient, the filtering device being implantable in the patient's body. The device has a tube forming a main fluid passageway for bodily fluid, through which the bodily fluid of the patient passes when the tube is implanted in the patient, a filter connected to the tube and a filter cleaning device for cleaning the filter by moving particles collected by the filter out of the fluid passageway, wherein the filter cleaning device is adapted to replace the first filter in the fluid passageway with a second filter, thereby moving the particles collected by the first filter out of the fluid passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventor: Peter Forsell
  • Sensor assembly part and a base plate for a medical appliance and a method for manufacturing a base plate or a sensor assembly part
    Patent number: 11654043
    Abstract: Disclosed is a base plate and a method for manufacturing a base plate. The method comprising: positioning a coupling part, the coupling part defining a terminal interface region; positioning an electrode assembly; positioning one or more terminal elements such that a distal part of each of the one or more terminal elements extends into the terminal interface region and a proximal part of each of the one or more terminal elements extends to the proximal side of the electrode assembly; affixing the proximal part of each of the one or more terminal elements to respective connection parts of the one or more electrodes; and securing the distal part of each of the one or more terminal elements to the coupling part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Jais Ask Hansen, Niels Hvid, Finn Speiermann
  • Medical plug system, method, and apparatus
    Patent number: 11638657
    Abstract: A medical plug apparatus for use in conjunction with an ostomy procedure includes a cap and an elongated cylindrical shaft. The cap has a top surface, a bottom surface, and a first thickness. The elongated cylindrical shaft extends orthogonally away from the bottom surface of the cap from a proximal end to a distal end and has shaft diameter and the shaft length adapted to plug a stoma cavity upon inserting the elongated cylindrical shaft into the stoma cavity. The cap includes a gripping portion that has a gripping diameter such that, upon exerting a pulling force on the first region and the second region of the gripping portion, the elongated cylindrical shaft is directed outwardly away from the patient by the pulling force causing a substantially axial tension force on the elongated cylindrical shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Avent, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Nordquist, Bernard Daurelle
  • Ostomy wafers incorporating adhesives and foam layers, ostomy devices including the same, and methods of applying ostomy wafers and ostomy devices
    Patent number: 11638658
    Abstract: Ostomy wafers, ostomy devices incorporating ostomy wafers, and methods of applying ostomy wafers and ostomy devices are disclosed herein. An ostomy wafer may include an external layer and a foam layer coupled to the external layer. An ostomy device may include an ostomy pouch and an ostomy wafer coupled to the ostomy pouch that includes an external layer and a foam layer coupled to the external layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: ConvaTec Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Emily Donovan, Garry Storey, Wayne Bonnefin, Roxanna Woodward, Stephen Desmond, Lisa Price, Clive Wilson, James Glover
  • Composition for hemostasis and container comprising same
    Patent number: 11628236
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for hemostasis which contains collagen, stabilizer, and thrombin, and a container including the same. The present invention is applicable to a bleeding patient requiring emergency treatment with a simple method of use. There is no toxicity and no problem of blood infection. A biodegradation rate is fast. In this regard, the present invention achieves an excellent hemostatic effect. Therefore, the composition for hemostasis is useful as a hemostat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: DALIM TISSEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Si-Nae Park, Sang-Hee Bae, Jae-Hyung Ko
  • Ostomy bag having a textile layer bonded to a barrier film along a portion of an outer periphery of the ostomy bag
    Patent number: 11617675
    Abstract: An ostomy bag includes a textile layer bonded to the barrier film along a portion of an outer periphery of the ostomy bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventor: Markus Freiding
  • Base plate and a sensor assembly part for an ostomy appliance
    Patent number: 11612509
    Abstract: A base plate and/or a sensor assembly part for an ostomy appliance is disclosed, the base plate and/or the sensor assembly part comprising a first adhesive layer with a proximal side configured for attachment of the base plate and/or the sensor assembly part to the skin surface of a user, the first adhesive layer having a stomal opening with a center point; and a plurality of electrodes including a ground electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode, the ground electrode comprising a ground connection part, the first electrode comprising a first connection part, and the second electrode comprising a second connection part; wherein the ground electrode forms a ground for the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Jais Ask Hansen, Niels Hvid, Finn Speiermann, Lars Erup Larsen, Klaus Thoegersen
  • Sensor assembly part for a medical appliance and a method for manufacturing a sensor assembly part
    Patent number: 11612508
    Abstract: A base plate, a sensor assembly part and a method for manufacturing a base plate or a sensor assembly part is disclosed. The method comprises positioning a coupling part, the coupling part defining a terminal interface region; positioning an electrode assembly having a distal side and a proximal side, wherein the electrode assembly is positioned such that the distal side of the electrode assembly is facing the coupling part, the electrode assembly comprises a support layer and one or more electrodes provided on a proximal side of the support layer, each of the one or more electrodes comprising a connection part; and inserting one or more terminal elements through the electrode assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Jais Ask Hansen, Lars Erup Larsen, Niels Hvid
  • Implant containing rods
    Patent number: 11607335
    Abstract: An implant that has a tubular interior section for implantation into a patient, an exterior section connected to the interior section and an ingrowth member that includes a three-dimensional porous structure. The three-dimensional porous structure is typically located at the inner circumference of the interior section and has desirable properties to facilitate ingrowth of tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: OSTOMYCURE AS
    Inventors: Benedict Brönnimann, Mats Erik Kindahl Cardell, Jan Anders Berglund, Robert Axelsson
  • Moisture switchable adhesive composition comprising a polymer and a switch initiator
    Patent number: 11607472
    Abstract: Disclosed is a moisture switchable adhesive composition including a polymer and a switch initiator. The composition can be switched from a first liquid state to a second adhesive state by activation of the switch initiator. The composition has in the first liquid state a complex viscosity |?*| below 0.4 MPa s; and the composition has in the second adhesive state a second repeated peel force above 1 N/25 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Peter Kwok Hing Lam, Esben Stroebech, Kristoffer Hansen, Anders Grove Sund, Anca Gabriela Bejenariu, Charlotte Juel Fristrup, Bahar Bingol
  • Sensor assembly part and a base plate for a medical appliance and a method for manufacturing a sensor assembly part and a base plate
    Patent number: 11590015
    Abstract: Disclosed is a base plate, a sensor assembly part and a method for manufacturing of a base plate or a sensor assembly part. The method comprising: positioning a coupling part; positioning an electrode assembly; providing one or more terminal elements; positioning the one or more terminal elements; securing the one or more terminal elements, by securing the distal part of each of the one or more terminal elements to the coupling part and positioning the proximal part of each of the one or more terminal elements to contact respective connection parts of the one or more electrodes, wherein after securing the one or more terminal elements, the terminal element bend of each of the one or more terminal elements forms a second angle, the second angle being less than the first angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Jais A S K Hansen, Lars Erup Larsen, Niels Hvid
  • Ostomy system
    Patent number: 11590016
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the invention, an ostomy system may comprise a stationary ring and a movable ring, hingedly connected to each other. One of the rings may include a deformable lip usable in creating a seal. The inner pouch may comprise a film material and a sealing member such as a gasket that is grippable between the two rings. The sealing member may be stiff when dry but may quickly become soft upon immersion in water, and may comprise paper material. The outer pouch may comprise a blister or pleat that is flexible and deformable between a compact position and an extended position. The outer pouch may comprise a storage region capable of containing at least one unused inner pouch. The system may comprise a wafer and an outer pouch and an inner pouch as separately replaceable parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Kayal Medical Products LLC
    Inventors: Thomas J Kayal, Anastasios A Iliadis, Andrew Rivera
  • Fecal management applicator and assembly
    Patent number: 11590018
    Abstract: A fecal management applicator, a fecal management assembly, and a fecal management method are described herein. A fecal management applicator may include a handle portion, and a head portion extending from the handle portion. The head portion may include an inner head wall portion that extends axially from the handle portion and an outer head wall portion that extends radially outwardly from the inner head wall portion and curves over the inner head wall portion. The fecal management applicator may define a channel that extends continuously through the handle portion and the head portion along an entire axial length of the fecal management applicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Medline Industries, LP
    Inventors: Morgan Uridil, Amanda Roszkowiak
  • Ostomy wafers incorporating adhesives, ostomy devices including the same, and methods of applying ostomy wafers and ostomy devices
    Patent number: 11590017
    Abstract: Ostomy wafers, ostomy devices incorporating ostomy wafers, and methods of applying ostomy wafers and ostomy devices are disclosed herein. An ostomy wafer may include an external layer and a convex surface coupled to the external layer. An ostomy device may include an ostomy pouch and an ostomy wafer coupled to the ostomy pouch that includes an external layer and a convex surface coupled to the external layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CONVATEC TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Emily Donovan, Garry Storey, Wayne Bonnefin, Roxanna Woodward, Stephen Desmond, Lisa Price, Clive Wilson, James Glover
  • Menstrual disc and methods of use
    Patent number: 11583433
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and apparatuses for a Menstrual disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Lyv Life Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Brush, Emma Sandrolini, Marla Metz
  • Ostomy faceplate including invertible stoma collar
    Patent number: 11571325
    Abstract: A faceplate assembly for an ostomy pouch system including an invertible stoma collar is provided. The invertible stoma collar protrudes toward a stoma and defines an inlet opening. The invertible stoma collar is formed from a flexible material having an elastic memory, such that the stoma collar hugs the stoma as the stoma is received through the inlet opening, and becomes inverted. The inverted stoma collar has a tendency to regain its original shape, and thus, applies sufficient pressure to seal around the stoma without strangulating the stoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hollister Incorporated
    Inventors: Seamus T. Kavanagh, Brock E. Masters, Mark W. Jockel, Christina Augustyn, Ronald S. Botten, Zubair A. Khan
  • Biodegradable odor barrier film
    Patent number: 11571326
    Abstract: A biodegradable odor barrier film for ostomy, continence and bowel management applications includes a barrier layer comprising at least about 90% wt. polyglycolic acid. The biodegradable odor barrier film provides excellent mechanical and odor barrier properties desired in ostomy, continence and bowel management applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hollister Incorporated
    Inventor: Moh-Ching Oliver Chang
  • System including a skin-engageable element of a medical appliance
    Patent number: 11559426
    Abstract: A system for preserving functionality of a skin-engageable element for attachment to a skin portion of a user during storage including a skin-engageable element and a protective element having discrete portions projecting therefrom. The discrete portions are adapted to engage with through-going passages in an adhesive layer of the skin-engageable element, and ensure that the passages are open and passable when the protective element is removed before use of the skin-engageable element. A protective element attachable to a proximal adhesive side of a skin-engageable element for attachment to a skin portion of a user is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Carsten Sletten, Jais Ask Hansen, Lars Erup Larsen
  • Medical appliance system, monitor device, and method of monitoring a medical appliance
    Patent number: 11559423
    Abstract: A monitor device for an ostomy system comprising an ostomy appliance with a base plate and a method of monitoring an ostomy appliance is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Finn Speiermann, Jais Ask Hansen