Patents by Inventor Timothy J. Higgins
Timothy J. Higgins 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: 11890259Abstract: An occlusion clearing device for a patient has a housing with a motor(s) that generates repetitive motion, which is reciprocating, rotational or both. A clearing stem including a sheath that has a lumen, wherein aspiration is conducted through the sheath lumen. A wire is located in the sheath lumen and receives repetitive motion from the controller. The sheath terminates in a sheath end having at least one sheath opening. The wire terminates in a wire tip, which may be flat, helical, or tubular. The wire tip is positioned within the sheath end, in proximity to the sheath opening(s), and movement of the wire tip and/or sheath end relative to each other creates shearing forces that break up an adjacent occlusion.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Inventors: Roger B Bagwell, Ryan S Clement, Katherine M Erdley, Maureen L Mulvihill, Casey A Scruggs, Douglas R Dillon, Timothy J Higgins
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Patent number: 11369399Abstract: A device for engaging tissue includes a body disposable around the distal end of a medical instrument, such as an endoscope, and a handpiece. The body includes a primary channel for receiving the medical instrument and at least one arm channel for receiving an arm therethrough. At least one arm extends through the arm channel of the body and proximally to the handpiece. The arm includes an engagement member distally of the body, and may further include a bend between the body and engagement member. The engagement member is movable between a first position not contacting tissue and a second position contacting tissue. With multiple engagement members, the engagement members are farther apart from one another in the first position and closer together in the second position. Movement of the engagement members is controlled by selective and independent movement of the corresponding arms by rotational and/or translational motion.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Actuated Medical, Inc.Inventors: Roger B Bagwell, Timothy J Higgins, Eric J Hopkins, Casey A Scruggs, Kevin A Snook
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Publication number: 20190192385Abstract: An occlusion clearing device for a patient has a housing with a motor(s) that generates repetitive motion, which is reciprocating, rotational or both. A clearing stem including a sheath that has a lumen, wherein aspiration is conducted through the sheath lumen. A wire is located in the sheath lumen and receives repetitive motion from the controller. The sheath terminates in a sheath end having at least one sheath opening. The wire terminates in a wire tip, which may be flat, helical, or tubular. The wire tip is positioned within the sheath end, in proximity to the sheath opening(s), and movement of the wire tip and/or sheath end relative to each other creates shearing forces that break up an adjacent occlusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: Actuated Medical, Inc.Inventors: Roger B. Bagwell, Ryan S. Clement, Katherine M. Erdley, Maureen L. Mulvihill, Casey A. Scruggs, Douglas R. Dillon, Timothy J. Higgins
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Patent number: 10307340Abstract: An occlusion clearing device for a patient has a housing with a motor(s) that generates repetitive motion, which is reciprocating, rotational or both. A clearing stem including a sheath that has a lumen, wherein aspiration is conducted through the sheath lumen. A wire is located in the sheath lumen and receives repetitive motion from the controller. The sheath terminates in a sheath end having at least one sheath opening. The wire terminates in a wire tip, which may be flat, helical, or tubular. The wire tip is positioned within the sheath end, in proximity to the sheath opening(s), and movement of the wire tip and/or sheath end relative to each other creates shearing forces that break up an adjacent occlusion.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Actuated Medical, Inc.Inventors: Roger B Bagwell, Ryan S Clement, Katherine M Erdley, Maureen L Mulvihill, Casey A Scruggs, Douglas R Dillon, Timothy J Higgins
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Publication number: 20190015125Abstract: A device for engaging tissue includes a body disposable around the distal end of a medical instrument, such as an endoscope, and a handpiece. The body includes a primary channel for receiving the medical instrument and at least one arm channel for receiving an arm therethrough. At least one arm extends through the arm channel of the body and proximally to the handpiece. The arm includes an engagement member distally of the body, and may further include a bend between the body and engagement member. The engagement member is movable between a first position not contacting tissue and a second position contacting tissue. With multiple engagement members, the engagement members are farther apart from one another in the first position and closer together in the second position. Movement of the engagement members is controlled by selective and independent movement of the corresponding arms by rotational and/or translational motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: Actualed Medical, Inc.Inventors: Roger B. Bagwell, Timothy J. Higgins, Eric J. Hopkins, Casey A. Scruggs, Kevin A. Snook
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Patent number: 10105085Abstract: A sampling hub directs a medical device towards a target area. The hub may have some of: a hub body; a lumen passing between openings at the front end and the rear end, the lumen allowing for passage of an elongate element through the entire lumen; the bottom of the hub body may be flat; the top of hub body preferably is sloped downwardly; the lumen is preferably sloped downwardly to enable guidance of the elongate body towards the target area; and an area surrounding the opening of the lumen at the rear end configured to receive a support for the elongate element, the support for the elongate element having a diameter in the support larger than a diameter of the elongate element.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Inventors: Andrew E. Andreae, Timothy J. Higgins, Jessica L. Ungerleider, Peter Jacob Neems
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Publication number: 20160331645Abstract: An occlusion clearing device for a patient has a housing with a motor(s) that generates repetitive motion, which is reciprocating, rotational or both. A clearing stem including a sheath that has a lumen, wherein aspiration is conducted through the sheath lumen. A wire is located in the sheath lumen and receives repetitive motion from the controller. The sheath terminates in a sheath end having at least one sheath opening. The wire terminates in a wire tip, which may be flat, helical, or tubular. The wire tip is positioned within the sheath end, in proximity to the sheath opening(s), and movement of the wire tip and/or sheath end relative to each other creates shearing forces that break up an adjacent occlusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: Actuated Medical, Inc.Inventors: Roger B. Bagwell, Ryan S. Clement, Katherine M. Erdley, Maureen L. Mulvihill, Casey A. Scruggs, Douglas R. Dillon, Timothy J. Higgins
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Patent number: 9408569Abstract: A liquid sampling catheter contains a lumen filled by a sampling cannula with a hollow lumen and either a closed or open distal tip. Attached to the proximal end of the device is a modular blood storage component. The sampling stick slides through the patient's skin or through a seal and in-dwelling lumen on a corresponding sampling hub to sample blood from a patient. This embodiment establishes a simple, standardized, and quick procedure for sampling small amounts of bodily liquids such as blood for a variety of analyte tests.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: ProVazo LLCInventors: Andrew E. Andreae, Timothy J. Higgins, Jessica L. Ungerleider, Peter Jacob Neems
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Publication number: 20140128774Abstract: A liquid sampling catheter contains a lumen filled by a sampling cannula with a hollow lumen and either a closed or open distal tip. Attached to the proximal end of the device is a modular blood storage component. The sampling stick slides through the patient's skin or through a seal and in-dwelling lumen on a corresponding sampling hub to sample blood from a patient. This embodiment establishes a simple, standardized, and quick procedure for sampling small amounts of bodily liquids such as blood for a variety of analyte tests.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: PROVAZO LLCInventors: Andrew E. Andreae, Timothy J. Higgins, Jessica L. Ungerleider, Peter Jacob Neems
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Publication number: 20140128775Abstract: A sampling hub directs a medical device towards a target area. The hub may have some of: a hub body; a lumen passing between openings at the front end and the rear end, the lumen allowing for passage of an elongate element through the entire lumen; the bottom of the hub body may be flat; the top of hub body preferably is sloped downwardly; the lumen is preferably sloped downwardly to enable guidance of the elongate body towards the target area; and an area surrounding the opening of the lumen at the rear end configured to receive a support for the elongate element, the support for the elongate element having a diameter in the support larger than a diameter of the elongate element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: ProVazo LLCInventors: Andrew E. Andreae, Timothy J. Higgins, Jessica L. Ungerleider, Peter Jacob Neems
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Patent number: 7802433Abstract: A method for operating a gas turbine engine including a compressor is provided. The method includes defining a predetermined concentration, placing at least one sensor in an inlet of the gas turbine engine, detecting a sand and dust concentration value using the at least one sensor; and deploying a boot to facilitate preventing particles from entering the compressor when the sand and dust concentration value equals or exceeds the predetermined concentration. The boot includes a plurality of fluid exit slots such that clean air is facilitated to be adhered to a flow path surface downstream from the boot.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Timothy J. Higgins
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Publication number: 20080072606Abstract: A method for operating a gas turbine engine including a compressor is provided. The method includes defining a predetermined concentration, placing at least one sensor in an inlet of the gas turbine engine, detecting a sand and dust concentration value using the at least one sensor; and deploying a boot to facilitate preventing particles from entering the compressor when the sand and dust concentration value equals or exceeds the predetermined concentration. The boot includes a plurality of fluid exit slots such that clean air is facilitated to be adhered to a flow path surface downstream from the boot.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2006Publication date: March 27, 2008Inventor: Timothy J. Higgins
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Patent number: 4467610Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided with an improved fuel system that features a fuel manifold with a primary and secondary fuel flowpath circumventing a combustor section of the engine. The manifold is formed with a double-walled construction for the purpose of withstanding high temperatures or fires around the combustor section and, additionally, to provide a secondary flowpath for draining any fuel leakage from the manifold. The two walls of the manifold include an inner wall that encloses the primary fuel flowpath through the fuel system. A concentric outer wall encloses the inner wall and protects the primary fuel flowpath. The double-walled system is made possible with a unique manifold assembly utilizing double-walled manifold segments that interconnect fuel flowpaths through fuel injector base sections. When assembled, these parts connect together to form an integral double-walled fuel manifold assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1981Date of Patent: August 28, 1984Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Carl E. Pearson, Timothy J. Higgins
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Patent number: D963448Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Cinchy, Inc.Inventor: Timothy J. Higgins
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Patent number: D978646Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Inventor: Timothy J. Higgins