Patents Assigned to Breg, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20100100020
    Abstract: An orthopedic walker boot for wearing on a lower limb of a wearer has a rigid external shell, a pliant internal boot positioned in the external shell, and a heel plate selectively detachable or attachable to the external shell. Selective transition of the heel plate between the detached condition and attached condition selectively provides the orthopedic walker boot with an open-heel configuration or a closed-heel configuration. The external shell includes an outer sole having a walking surface which is configured with two curved axes to facilitate walking while wearing the orthopedic walker boot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Fout, Jeffrey R. Regan, Tiffany A. Bell, Paul H. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20100100018
    Abstract: An orthopedic walker boot for wearing on a lower limb of a wearer has a rigid external shell and a pliant internal boot received within the external shell. The internal boot includes a leg panel having an inflatable bladder and a pump panel having a pump for inflating the bladder. The leg panel is configured to wrap around a leg of a wearer and the external shell is sized and configured to receive the internal boot with the leg of the wearer wrapped therein. The pump panel has a first end fixably attached to the leg panel and has a selective and releasable operational orientation, wherein the pump panel is in an overlapping outer position relative to the leg panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: BREG, INC.
    Inventor: James M. Fout
  • Patent number: 7485103
    Abstract: A hinge assembly for a knee brace includes a screw seat, a screw seat gear, an adjustment screw, a condyle engagement member, and an adjustment actuator gear. The screw seat has a bore with an internal thread. The screw seat gear is positioned at an end of the screw seat and the screw seat rotates in response to rotation of the screw seat gear. The adjustment actuator gear engages the screw seat gear and the screw seat gear rotates in response to rotation of the adjustment actuator gear. The adjustment screw has an external thread that is threaded into the internal thread of the screw seat, thereby enabling outward or inward telescoping of the adjustment screw within the bore in response to rotation of the adjustment actuator gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley R. Mason, Aadel Al-Jadda
  • Patent number: 7479122
    Abstract: A frame is provided for an orthopedic brace having a frame assembly and an opposing frame assembly. The frame assembly includes a first longitudinal support and a second longitudinal support rotatably connected by a rotational hinge. The opposing frame assembly includes a first opposing longitudinal support and a second opposing longitudinal support rotatably connected by an opposing rotational hinge. The first longitudinal support has a greater degree of flexibility than the first opposing longitudinal support and/or the second longitudinal support has a greater degree of flexibility than the second opposing longitudinal support to enhance the fit of the frame with the body of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: Dylann D. Ceriani, Bradley R. Mason
  • Patent number: 7326196
    Abstract: A catheter assembly for infusion or aspiration of an internal body site includes a catheter comprised of a tubular sidewall extending between a proximal end and an opposing distal end, the sidewall bounding a lumen. At least one port is formed on the catheter so as to communicate with the lumen. At least one filament extends outwardly from the first catheter. The filament is configured to form a fluid pathway within a body of a patient for fluid entering or exiting the at least one port of the catheter when the catheter is implanted within the body of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond E. Olsen, T. Wade Fallin, Daniel E. Gerbec, Marc C. Yap
  • Patent number: 7309333
    Abstract: A portable medication delivery system enables a patient to elect slow continuous auto-administration or rapid bolus self-administration of a fluid medication. The medication delivery system has an infusion pump, which includes a fluid storage chamber and a spring-driven piston positioned in the fluid storage chamber. The fluid storage chamber is initially charged with the medication and the infusion pump automatically delivers a continuous dosage of the medication at a first flow rate over a long time from the fluid storage chamber to a treatment site in the patient. A bolus injector is positioned in series or in parallel with the infusion pump and is charged with a bolus dosage of the treatment fluid from the fluid storage chamber for alternate manual self-injection of the medication into the treatment site at a higher second flow rate for a short time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey T. Mason
  • Patent number: 7244239
    Abstract: A shoulder stabilizing restraint which includes a pillow and a forearm wrap. The pillow has an arcuately-configured posterior face for engaging an anterior quadrant of a torso on a first side of a user. The pillow also has a flat forearm engagement face for engaging a forearm on the first side of the user. The forearm engagement face is preferably converges with the posterior face at a posterior/lateral convergence which is positionable proximal to a lateral border of the torso on the first side of the user. The forearm wrap is fastenable to the pillow to retain the forearm in engagement with the forearm engagement face and the shoulder joint at a positive external rotation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark E. Howard
  • Patent number: 7235059
    Abstract: A hinge for an orthopedic brace has two rotation plates, a pivotal connector connecting the rotation plates, a rotation limiting mechanism, and a rotation locking mechanism. The rotation limiting mechanism includes a rotation limiting face formed in one of the rotation plates and a rotation limiting assembly which has a stop face engageable with the rotation limiting face upon rotation of the rotation plates in a given direction to limit further rotation in that direction. The rotation locking mechanism includes a series of lock notches formed in one of the rotation plates and a rotation lock pin positionable within one of the lock notches to lock the rotation plates in a fixed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Mason, Paul Oddou
  • Patent number: 7163521
    Abstract: An integrated infusion and aspiration system includes a flow control system and a catheter assembly. The catheter assembly includes an infusion catheter and an aspiration catheter, each having ports located at the distal end of thereof. The distal ends of the catheters are separated so that the aspiration catheter ports can be positioned on an opposing side of a surgical wound site from the infusion catheter ports. Methods of operation of the integrated infusion and aspiration system provide for uninterrupted aspiration with concurrent controlled delivery of an infusion solution such that the infusion solution is substantially evenly dispersed of over the wound site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: E. Marlowe Goble, Mark E. Howard, Jeffrey T. Mason, T. Wade Fallin
  • Patent number: 7108664
    Abstract: A continuous passive motion device is provided having specific application to rehabilitative treatment of the elbow or shoulder. The device includes a motorized winch displacable in a first or second direction, a cord suspended from the winch by a variable extension length, which increases when the winch is displaced in the first direction and decreases when the winch is displaced in the second direction, and an arm harness associated with the cord. An arm of a patient is suspended from a suspension point on the cord and the motorized winch is activated to alternately displace the winch in the first and second directions, thereby providing a plurality of repetitive treatment cycles. Each treatment cycle moves the suspension point and correspondingly the elbow or shoulder from a lower treatment limit to an upper treatment limit and back to the lower treatment limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Mason, Mark E. Howard
  • Patent number: 7059329
    Abstract: A knee brace is provided having upper and lower arms and a hinge assembly positionable about the knee to one side of the patella. The hinge assembly has a hinge pivot and a tension strap lever. The upper and lower arms and tension strap lever are each rotatable about the hinge pivot. A compression member is positioned in engagement with the knee on the opposite side of the patella from the hinge assembly and a tension strap engages the compression member and is connected to the tension strap lever. The tension strap applies a tension force to the compression member which increases when the upper and lower arms and tension strap lever rotationally transition from a flexion position to an extension position and decreases when the upper and lower arms and tension strap lever rotationally transition from the extension position to the flexion position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Mason, James M. Fout, Raymond S. Veeck
  • Patent number: 7060045
    Abstract: A knee orthosis is provided having upper and lower arms and a hinge assembly positionable about the knee to one side of the patella. The hinge assembly has a hinge pivot and a tension strap lever. The upper and lower arms and tension strap lever are each rotatable about the hinge pivot. A compression member is positioned in engagement with the knee on the opposite side of the patella from the hinge assembly and a tension strap is connected to the compression member and the tension strap lever. The tension strap applies a tension force to the compression member which increases when the upper and lower arms and tension strap lever rotationally transition from a flexion position to an extension position and decreases when the upper and lower arms and tension strap lever rotationally transition from the extension position to the flexion position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Mason, James M. Fout
  • Patent number: 6936019
    Abstract: A strap connector assembly for an orthopedic brace has a retention post, which has a post cross-sectional dimension, and a chamber, which has a retention aperture. The retention aperture is bounded at least in part by a flexible segment and has an aperture cross-sectional dimension less than the post cross-sectional dimension when the flexible segment is unstressed. However, the aperture cross-sectional dimension is substantially equal to the post cross-sectional dimension when the flexible segment is stressed by the retention post. The retention aperture, flexible segment and retention post cooperatively enable a user to selectively connect or disconnect a strap to or from the orthopedic brace while maintaining the adjustment of the strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey T. Mason
  • Patent number: 6893414
    Abstract: An integrated infusion and aspiration system includes of a flow control system and a catheter assembly. The catheter assembly includes an infusion catheter and an aspiration catheter, each having ports located at the distal end of thereof. The distal ends of the catheters are separated so that the aspiration catheter ports can be positioned on an opposing side of a surgical wound site from the infusion catheter ports. Methods of operation of the integrated infusion and aspiration system provides for uninterrupted aspiration with concurrent controlled delivery of an infusion solution such that the infusion solution is substantially evenly dispersed of over the wound site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: E. Marlowe Goble, Mark E. Howard, Jeffrey T. Mason, T. Wade Fallin
  • Publication number: 20040260231
    Abstract: An integrated infusion and aspiration system includes of a flow control system and a catheter assembly. The catheter assembly includes an infusion catheter and an aspiration catheter, each having ports located at the distal end of thereof. The distal ends of the catheters are separated so that the aspiration catheter ports can be positioned on an opposing side of a surgical wound site from the infusion catheter ports. Methods of operation of the integrated infusion and aspiration system provides for uninterrupted aspiration with concurrent controlled delivery of an infusion solution such that the infusion solution is substantially evenly dispersed of over the wound site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Applicant: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: E. Marlowe Goble, Mark E. Howard, Jeffrey T. Mason, T. Wade Fallin
  • Patent number: 6802823
    Abstract: A portable medication delivery system enables a patient to elect slow continuous auto-administration or rapid bolus self-administration of a fluid medication. The medication delivery system has an infusion pump, which includes a fluid storage chamber and a spring-driven piston positioned in the fluid storage chamber. The fluid storage chamber is initially charged with the medication and the infusion pump automatically delivers a continuous dosage of the medication at a first flow rate over a long time from the fluid storage chamber to a treatment site in the patient. A bolus injector is positioned in series or in parallel with the infusion pump and is charged with a bolus dosage of the treatment fluid from the fluid storage chamber for alternate manual self-injection of the medication into the treatment site at a higher second flow rate for a short time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey T. Mason
  • Patent number: 6719713
    Abstract: A strap attachment assembly for an orthopedic brace has an anchor mounted on an orthopedic brace component and a strap retainer mounted on a strap. The anchor has a retention post and a retention head and the strap retainer has a body and a retention plate. The body includes a chamber and the retention plate includes a retention opening aligned with the chamber. The retention opening is sized to releasably receive the retention head when the retention post is positioned in the chamber. The retention plate is transitionable between a locked condition and an unlocked condition. The inner boundary of the retention opening blocks displacement of the retention head therefrom in the locked condition and is clear of the retention head to permit displacement of the retention head therefrom in the unlocked condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey T. Mason
  • Patent number: 6719728
    Abstract: A portable, patient-controlled medication delivery system includes an infusion pump and a catheter assembly. The infusion pump retains a treatment fluid and provides a drive mechanism for delivering the treatment fluid to a patient via the catheter assembly. The infusion pump includes a fluid reservoir, a dosage chamber, a displacement piston displacable within the dosage chamber, a charge flowpath providing fluid communication between the fluid reservoir and the dosage chamber, and a passive flow restrictor positioned in the charge flowpath. An elastic member is also positioned in the infusion pump to exert an elastic displacement force on the displacement piston, which expands the dosage chamber and draws the treatment fluid from the fluid reservoir into the dosage chamber at a charge flow rate controlled by the passive flow restrictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley R. Mason, Jeffrey T. Mason
  • Publication number: 20040054307
    Abstract: A knee orthosis is provided having upper and lower arms and a hinge assembly positionable about the knee to one side of the patella. The hinge assembly has a hinge pivot and a tension strap lever. The upper and lower arms and tension strap lever are each rotatable about the hinge pivot. A compression member is positioned in engagement with the knee on the opposite side of the patella from the hinge assembly and a tension strap is connected to the compression member and the tension strap lever. The tension strap applies a tension force to the compression member which increases when the upper and lower arms and tension strap lever rotationally transition from a flexion position to an extension position and decreases when the upper and lower arms and tension strap lever rotationally transition from the extension position to the flexion position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Mason, James M. Fout
  • Patent number: D486870
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey T. Mason