Patents by Inventor Leon M. Heredia

Leon M. Heredia 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).

  • Patent number: 6235240
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for generating, administering, extracting and recovering sterilant gas for sterilizing and/or decontaminating enclosed spaces such as, for example, interior spaces of microbial isolators, and also to components associated with such apparatus and methods. Specifically contemplated herein, inter alia, is an arrangement for extracting gas, such as decontaminant gas, that includes a selectively removable arrangement for holding a predetermined quantity of a medium for interacting with gas, such as decontaminant gas, and promoting the recovery therefrom of at least one predetermined ingredient. Such arrangements may conceivably be utilized in contexts other than contexts of apparatus and methods for generating, administering, extracting and recovering sterilant gas for sterilizing and/or decontaminating enclosed spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson
    Inventors: Leon M. Heredia, Diane L. Battisti, Michael F. Plocic
  • Patent number: 6007780
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for generating, administering, extracting and recovering sterilant gas for sterilizing and/or decontaminating enclosed spaces such as, for example, interior spaces of microbial isolators, and also to components associated with such apparatus and methods. Specifically contemplated herein, inter alia, is an arrangement and a method for automatically, and in a selected one of a predetermined and a predeterminable sequence, carrying out at least two of the steps of: providing decontaminant gas; initiating the administration of decontaminant gas into a target volume; and extracting gas from the target volume. This arrangement and method may conceivably be utilized in contexts other than contexts of apparatus and methods for generating, administering, extracting and recovering sterilant gas for sterilizing and/or decontaminating enclosed spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson
    Inventor: Leon M. Heredia
  • Patent number: 5961936
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for generating, administering, extracting and recovering sterilant gas for sterilizing and/or decontaminating enclosed spaces such as, interior spaces of microbial isolators and also components associated with such apparatus and methods. Specifically contemplated herein, inter alia, is a modular system that includes at least one modular section (A), which includes an arrangement for administering gas to a target and for recirculating gas back to the target, and at least one of: at least one modular section (B) which includes an arrangement for generating a gas and at least one modular section (C) which includes an arrangement for selectively extracting gas away from the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson
    Inventor: Leon M. Heredia