Patents by Inventor Elizabeth Nelson
Elizabeth Nelson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10398852Abstract: Smart sensors are employed to determine one or more of drug identification, dose, flow rate, concentration, agglomeration, and degradation and/or other characteristics of drug administration that can be detected via sensing technology. A smart sensor(s) can be coupled to or retrofitted onto injection pen injectors and/or drug delivery cartridges and/or infusion sets or cannulae, enabling infusion sets, pen injector systems or drug delivery cartridges to improve tracking of drug self-administration and stop medication errors that occur primarily through self or automated injection (e.g., due to incorrect or incomplete dosing, excessive dose or rate, incorrect drug, or drug degradation).Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Margaret Taylor, David Feygin, Elizabeth Nelson, Bart Peterson, Karthik Ranganathan, Richard Byrd
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Publication number: 20190117848Abstract: A composite comprising: a barrier, said barrier being configured to selectively pass water, and said barrier being degradable in the presence of water; a matrix material for disposition within said barrier, wherein said matrix material has a flowable state and a set state, and wherein said matrix material is degradable in the presence of water; and at least one reinforcing element for disposition within said barrier and integration with said matrix material, wherein said at least one reinforcing element is degradable in the presence of water, and further wherein, upon the degradation of said at least one reinforcing element in the presence of water, provides an agent for modulating the degradation rate of said matrix material in the presence of water.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2015Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: 206 ORTHO, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. D'Agostino, Robert S. Whitehouse, Arthur Watterson, Werner Blank, Charles Hegedus, Sandip Agarwal, Elizabeth Nelson
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Publication number: 20180326130Abstract: Systems for expressing milk from a human breast are provided herein. Such systems can include a compression device having multiple fingers configured to at least partially surround a breast and apply pressure to a major portion of a breast without applying pressure to a remainder portion, thereby activating milk ducts within the breast. The fingers can be configured to apply pressure to an inferior portion and one or more lateral portions of the breast, without applying direct pressure to a superior portion. The fingers can be configured to apply pressure to a superior portion and one or more lateral portions of the breast, without applying direct pressure to an inferior portion. The fingers of the compression device can be configured to apply pressure to a superior portion, an inferior portion, and a first lateral portion of the breast, without applying direct pressure to a second lateral portion of the breast.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Susan Thompson, Andrew Thompson, Chinawut P. Paesang, Casper Crouse, Elizabeth Nelson
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Patent number: 10070955Abstract: A prosthetic device including a column of resilient material that has a central region between the proximal and distal ends. The central region has a reduced diameter relative to the proximal and distal ends. Discs protrude from the central region.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2008Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Stephanie A. George, Sara Elizabeth Nelson, Randall P. Rowland, Charles C. Kuyava
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Patent number: 10046097Abstract: Wearable breast pumps are provided which utilize compression to enhance milk expression. The breast milk expression systems herein can allow breastfeeding users to obtain milk discreetly and comfortably in the presence of others. These systems compress the breast at one or more locations, such as at a base of a breast and/or along inferior and lateral sides of a breast, to stimulate milk expression. Various components and methods for expressing milk can facilitate milk output. For example, vacuum can be used in conjunction with compression. For another example, one or more temperature sensitive components can be utilized to improve milk secretion. In some embodiments, milk can be collected in a sterile custom storage container located around or beneath the breasts to facilitate wearability. After expression is complete, a quick-release valve can be used to detach the storage container from the pump and can prevent leaks.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: DS Labs, Inc.Inventors: Susan Thompson, Andrew Thompson, Chinawut P. Paesang, Casper Crouse, Elizabeth Nelson
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Publication number: 20180103870Abstract: Sensors are disclosed that detect whether a cannula is properly inserted to its full depth in a subject's skin. The sensors may be used with a blood glucose monitor, or with a continuous insulin infusion pump, infusion set, or other system involving intermittent or continuous testing and/or drug delivery.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Amit LIMAYE, Keith KNAPP, Elizabeth NELSON, Patrick ALLEN, Amanda MASOTTA
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Patent number: 9872633Abstract: Sensors are disclosed that detect whether a cannula is properly inserted to its full depth in a subject's skin. The sensors may be used with a blood glucose monitor, or with a continuous insulin infusion pump, infusion set, or other system involving intermittent or continuous testing and/or drug delivery.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Amit Limaye, Keith Knapp, Elizabeth Nelson, Patrick Allen, Amanda Masotta
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Patent number: 9671349Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for automatically detecting the type of replacement fluid loaded by the operator during a therapeutic exchange procedure and to provide a warning alarm if an incorrect fluid is used. After the operator connects the container of replacement fluid to the replacement fluid line of a single-use kit and enters into the controller an identification of the exchange procedure to be performed, the replacement fluid is flowed through a segment of the kit in proximity to a sensor associated with the hardware component that detects the type of fluid flowing through the segment. The controller verifies whether the replacement fluid detected in the segment corresponds to that appropriate for the selected exchange procedure, and notifies the operator in the event that an incorrect replacement fluid has been loaded.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Fenwal, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Schoonover, Lan T. Nguyen, David Stude, Elizabeth Nelson
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Patent number: 9517133Abstract: A malleable penile prosthetic device for implantation within a penis of a user includes a columnar body and a plurality of malleable cores within the columnar body. The columnar body has a proximal end, a distal end, and a central axis extending from the proximal end to the distal end. Each of the plurality of malleable cores extends along the central axis, is angularly displaced about the central axis from neighboring malleable cores, and includes a bundle of wires surrounded by a sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Stephanie A. George, Sara Elizabeth Nelson, Randall P. Rowland, Charles C. Kuyava
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Publication number: 20160089056Abstract: Sensors are disclosed that detect whether a cannula is properly inserted to its full depth in a subject's skin. The sensors may be used with a blood glucose monitor, or with a continuous insulin infusion pump, infusion set, or other system involving intermittent or continuous testing and/or drug delivery.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2014Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventors: Amit LIMAYE, Keith KNAPP, Elizabeth NELSON, Patrick ALLEN, Amanda MASOTTA
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Patent number: 9283321Abstract: A system for recording the wasting of fluids includes a waste disposal unit and a sensor system, having a sensor. The sensor can have one or more sensor elements in fluid communication with a fluid as it is wasted from a container into the waste disposal unit. The sensor system is configured to identify one or more drugs within the fluid and record the identity of the one or more drugs in a computer-readable medium electrically coupled to the sensor system.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Elizabeth Nelson, Bart D. Peterson, William R. Marshall, Bryan G. Davis
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Publication number: 20160030683Abstract: Smart sensors are employed to determine one or more of drug identification, dose, flow rate, concentration, agglomeration, and degradation and/or other characteristics of drug administration that can be detected via sensing technology. A smart sensor(s) can be coupled to or retrofitted onto injection pen injectors and/or drug delivery cartridges and/or infusion sets or cannulae, enabling infusion sets, pen injector systems or drug delivery cartridges to improve tracking of drug self-administration and stop medication errors that occur primarily through self or automated injection (e.g., due to incorrect or incomplete dosing, excessive dose or rate, incorrect drug, or drug degradation).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: February 4, 2016Applicant: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANYInventors: Margaret Taylor, David Feygin, Elizabeth Nelson, Bart Peterson, Karthik Ranganathan, Richard Byrd
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Patent number: 9155833Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring the use of a fluid over the lifecycle of the fluid, said systems including a plurality of fluid identification stations, each station having one or more sensors to detect and identify a parameter of a fluid, wherein a each station is operably interconnected thereby permitting each station to access and verify the identity of a fluid as determined by each independent fluid identification station.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Elizabeth Nelson, David Feygin, Richard Byrd, Bart D. Peterson, Karthik Ranganathan, Weston F. Harding, Ralph L. Sonderegger, William R. Marshall
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Patent number: 9067014Abstract: An attachment device for identifying one or more constituents within a fluid includes a first end configured to selectively attach to an opening of a container holding a fluid, and a sensor coupled to the attachment body. The sensor further includes one or more sensor elements positioned to detect and analyze a fluid within the container. The sensor is further configured to perform one or more tests on the fluid, wherein the one or more tests are useful in identifying one or more constituents within the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Elizabeth Nelson, Karthik Ranganathan, Bart D. Peterson, William R. Marshall, David Feygin, Weston F. Harding
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Publication number: 20150115180Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for automatically detecting the type of replacement fluid loaded by the operator during a therapeutic exchange procedure and to provide a warning alarm if an incorrect fluid is used. After the operator connects the container of replacement fluid to the replacement fluid line of a single-use kit and enters into the controller an identification of the exchange procedure to be performed, the replacement fluid is flowed through a segment of the kit in proximity to a sensor associated with the hardware component that detects the type of fluid flowing through the segment. The controller verifies whether the replacement fluid detected in the segment corresponds to that appropriate for the selected exchange procedure, and notifies the operator in the event that an incorrect replacement fluid has been loaded.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: FENWAL, INC.Inventors: Matthew Schoonover, Lan T. Nguyen, David Stude, Elizabeth Nelson
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Publication number: 20150073208Abstract: A malleable penile prosthetic device for implantation within a penis of a user includes a columnar body and a plurality of malleable cores within the columnar body. The columnar body has a proximal end, a distal end, and a central axis extending from the proximal end to the distal end. Each of the plurality of malleable cores extends along the central axis, is angularly displaced about the central axis from neighboring malleable cores, and includes a bundle of wires surrounded by a sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Stephanie A. George, Sara Elizabeth Nelson, Randall P. Rowland, Charles C. Kuyava
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Patent number: 8911350Abstract: A penile prosthetic device comprising a column formed of resilient material. The prosthetic device comprises multiple malleable cores arranged inside the column. The multiple malleable cores are spaced apart from one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2008Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: AMS Research CorporationInventors: Stephanie A. George, Sara Elizabeth Nelson, Randall P. Rowland, Charles C. Kuyava
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Publication number: 20120226446Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring the use of a fluid over the lifecycle of the fluid, said systems including a plurality of fluid identification stations, each station having one or more sensors to detect and identify a parameter of a fluid, wherein a each station is operably interconnected thereby permitting each station to access and verify the identity of a fluid as determined by each independent fluid identification station.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANYInventors: Elizabeth Nelson, David Feygin, Richard Byrd, Bart D. Peterson, Karthik Ranganathan, Weston F. Harding, Ralph L. Sonderegger, William R. Marshall
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Publication number: 20120222468Abstract: An attachment device for identifying one or more constituents within a fluid includes a first end configured to selectively attach to an opening of a container of holding a fluid, and a sensor coupled to the attachment body. The sensor further includes one or more sensor elements positioned to detect and analyze a fluid within the container. The sensor is further configured to perform one or more tests on the fluid, wherein the one or more tests are useful in identifying one or more constituents within the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANYInventors: Elizabeth Nelson, Karthik Ranganathan, Bart D. Peterson, William R. Marshall, David Feygin, Weston F. Harding
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Publication number: 20120226447Abstract: A system for recording the wasting of fluids includes a waste disposal unit and a sensor system, having a sensor. The sensor can have one or more sensor elements in fluid communication with a fluid as it is wasted from a container into the waste disposal unit. The sensor system is configured to identify one or more drugs within the fluid and record the identity of the one or more drugs in a computer-readable medium electrically coupled to the sensor system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANYInventors: Elizabeth Nelson, Bart D. Peterson, William R. Marshall, Bryan G. Davis