Patents Assigned to Codonics, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20180114598
    Abstract: Provided is a method and system for programming a drug delivery device. The method includes using a portable computer terminal to read a device code encoding information specific to the drug delivery device, a patient code identifying a specific patient that is to receive the drug administered by the drug delivery device, and a drug code accompanying a container storing the drug to be administered to the specific patient by the drug delivery device. Once input is received from a user indicating that operation of the drug delivery device to deliver the drug to the specific patient is to begin, the portable computer terminal initiates creation of an electronic record thereon linking the information specific to the drug delivery device, the information indicative of the identity of the specific patient, and the information indicative of the drug delivery parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael KOLBERG, Gary KEEFE, Peter BOTTEN
  • Patent number: 8948478
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of processing data pertaining to a medical procedure. The method includes receiving information indicative of at least one of an imaging device and a video capture device, and information indicative of an identity of a patient to be treated during the medical procedure. The data is received by the computer system without the identity of the patient. A relationship is established to link the data with the identification of the patient. Application of at least one processing rule is initiated to reduce a file size of the data from an original file size of the data as transmitted by the at least one of the imaging device and the video capture device. The data is stored in combination with the identification of the patient in a manner compliant with a standardized medical imaging transmission format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Keefe, Richard Edwards, Michael Kolberg, Timothy Jablonski
  • Patent number: 8935280
    Abstract: Provided are a medical information importer and method for importing medical information into a network-accessible database. The medical information importer includes a housing includes with an external stand-alone form factor, the housing including an interface for receiving a portable computer-readable medium storing medical information. An information reading component is provided for reading the medical information from the portable computer-readable medium when operatively connected to the interface. A computer-readable memory in communication with the information reading component stores, at least temporarily, the medical information read by the reading component under the direction of a controller. And a network interface connects the medical information importer to a communication network without a local connection between the medical information importer and a computer terminal including a display device for viewing the medical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron A. Bauman, Garvin Seto, Gary Enos, Gary Keefe, Michael Lustig, Ross Goodman
  • Patent number: 8893970
    Abstract: Provided is a method for reading a code from a container of a medicinal substance and printing a label for the container. The method includes reading a machine readable code associated with a container for storing a medicinal drug. The machine readable code includes an identification information of the medicinal drug. The method also for determining a useful life of the medicinal drug based on a time at which the container for storing the medicinal drug was initially accessed and encoding a label content including the useful life of the medicinal drug. The method also includes printing a label including the label content including the useful life of the medicinal drug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Keefe, Lawrence Srnka, Michael Kolberg, Timothy Jablonski
  • Publication number: 20140263614
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for presenting information related to a drug dilution. A computer memory stores a drug database with a plurality of drug entries, each of which includes an identification and concentration of a drug stored in an originating container. A reader is operable to read a barcode associated with the drug identifier of the originating drug container and the concentration and/or dose and volume of the drug in the container. A user selects or enters a desired drug preparation that may include one or more preparations of the originating drug requested for administration to a patient. A computer processor interprets the concentrate signal, identifies the concentration of the originating drug based on content included in the drug database, and determines a recipe to be presented to the user for preparing the drug including any required dilutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Keefe, Lawrence Srnka
  • Publication number: 20140282197
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for presenting information related to a drug dilution. A computer memory stores a drug database with a plurality of drug entries, each of which includes an identification and concentration of a drug stored in an originating container. A reader is operable to read a barcode associated with the drug identifier of the originating drug container and the concentration and/or dose and volume of the drug in the container. A user selects or enters a desired drug preparation that may include one or more preparations of the originating drug requested for administration to a patient. A computer processor interprets the concentrate signal, identifies the concentration of the originating drug based on content included in the drug database, and determines a recipe to be presented to the user for preparing the drug including any required dilutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Keefe, Lawrence Srnka
  • Patent number: 8825680
    Abstract: Provided is a method of converting a medical image used in a network at a patient care facility, the network including an enterprise network storage solution optionally dedicated for storing medical images in a standardized medical imaging format that are to be retrieved over the network. The method includes us a computer system to search a portable computer-readable medium for an indication that the medical image is stored in a proprietary format on the portable computer-readable medium. The proprietary format of the medical image is identified, using the computer system, based on the indication. The medical image is converted into a format that is compliant with a standardized medical-imaging format, transmitted in the standardized medical-imaging format to be: (i) subsequently displayed by a display device without requiring prior storage of the medical image in an enterprise storage solution for medical images, and/or (ii) stored in the enterprise storage solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Burke, Gary Keefe, Lawrence Srnka, Peter Botten
  • Patent number: 8755056
    Abstract: A multi-media print includes a decoding module, a configuration memory, and a parameter determination module. The decoding module decodes print job parameters and print job data, and outputs decoded print job parameters including decoded print job media selection parameters and the decoded print job data. The configuration memory stores default configuration parameters. The parameter determination module receives the decoded print job parameters including the decoded print job media selection parameters and the decoded print job data and also receives the default configuration parameters including the default media selection parameters from the configuration memory. The parameter determination module determines the final print job media selection parameters for the print job, utilizing the decoded print job media selection parameters and the default media selection parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M Edwards, Alan J Gilbert, Gary W Keefe, Peter O Botten
  • Publication number: 20140142975
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus that stores a formulary. The apparatus includes a memory device that stores the formulary, the formulary comprising a plurality of drug entries. A user input device allows a user to verify a drug of the plurality of drug entries of the formulary. A code reader interprets computer-readable codes. After a computer-readable code that is associated with the drug is read by the code reader, the drug is verified using the user input device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Keefe, Alan Gilbert
  • Patent number: 8699054
    Abstract: A multi-media printer renders an image from a submitted print job. A decoding module receives the submitted print job and extracts a print client indicator from the submitted print job. A mapping module includes a plurality of entries, each of the plurality of entries including the print client indicator and a corresponding job settings file. A parameter determination module receives the at least one print client indicator and compares the print client indicator to the plurality of entries in the mapping module to determine if a matching entry corresponds to print client indicator. The parameter determination module determines if the corresponding job settings file in the matching entry includes at least one media selection parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Edwards, Alan J. Gilbert, Gary W. Keefe, Peter O. Botten
  • Publication number: 20140060729
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for generating a label for use in a medical application. Label content specified by a user that is to be applied to a surface of the label is received. The label content, which includes a machine-generated character, is printed on demand onto the surface of the label. The label bearing the label content is dispensed in a condition suitable for use in the sterile environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Srnka, Peter Botten
  • Patent number: 8636202
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus that stores a formulary. The apparatus includes a memory device that stores the formulary, the formulary comprising a plurality of drug entries. A user input device allows a user to verify a drug of the plurality of drug entries of the formulary. A code reader interprets computer-readable codes. After a computer-readable code that is associated with the drug is read by the code reader, the drug is verified using the user input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Keefe, Alan Gilbert
  • Patent number: 8639525
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for enabling transfer of a drug from a first drug container to a second drug container including a drug identification component that recognizes a first drug container to retrieve drug identifying data for the drug, a storage medium that stores a site-specific database comprising attributes and associated values for a set of drugs including the drug in the first drug container, a processor that obtains the drug identifying data and the attributes and associated values for the drug and produces information about the drug using the drug identifying data and the attributes and associated values, a rules engine that applies one or more rules to the information about the drug to generate drug handling information, and an output unit that outputs markings comprising the drug handling information in human-readable or machine-readable form, or both, to be associated with the second container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilton C. Levine, James Kenneth Davison, Michael Dempsey, Kimberly Donovan, William D. Driscoll, III, Gayle A. Fishman, Nathaniel M. Sims
  • Patent number: 8582171
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for generating a label for use in a medical application. Label content specified by a user that is to be applied to a surface of the label is received. The label content, which includes a machine-generated character, is printed on demand onto the surface of the label. The label bearing the label content is dispensed in a condition suitable for use in the sterile environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Srnka, Peter O. Botten
  • Patent number: 8565552
    Abstract: A printer receives a plurality of image sections and corresponding image headers from the host as an image concatenation command. The plurality of image sections store the plurality of image sections in a print queue. The printer creates a virtual canvas representing a full image size. The printer determines how many lines of uniform data are present in a top border and a bottom border of the plurality of image sections. A variable formatting module of the printer crops a bottom border of a first image section to create a cropped first image section and a top border of a last image section to create a cropped last image section. The variable formatting module creates a first image frame in the virtual canvas corresponding to the first image section minus the bottom border and a last image frame corresponding to the last image section minus the top border.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Erica Anastasia Sommer, Jeremy Franklin Audino, Christopher Michael Harley
  • Patent number: 8296950
    Abstract: Provided is a method of stabilizing an elastomeric property of an elastomeric material. The method includes placing the elastomeric material in a pressurizing chamber and applying a suitable hydrostatic pressure to the elastomeric material within the pressurizing chamber to at least partially compress the elastomeric material. Application of the hydrostatic pressure is maintained for a period of time suitable to at least partially stabilize a restorative force exhibited by the elastomeric material in response to subsequent exposures of the elastomeric material to a compressive force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robb Colbrunn, Scott Turk, Christopher Tainer, Pete Botten, Eric Lehuta, Lawrence Srnka
  • Patent number: 8063925
    Abstract: A multi-media printer includes an engine controller, a printhead controller, and a pulse activation table. The engine controller transmits a row of energy values. The printhead controller receives the row of energy values and transmits an activation signal. The activation signal is transmitted based on a comparison of an activating energy level for each pulse position in a pulse stream with the energy values in the row of energy values. Comparison logic performs the comparison and transmits an activation signal if the energy value for the row of energy values is greater than or equal to the activating energy level for the corresponding pulse positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Tainer, Jeremy Audino, James Bias
  • Patent number: 8031347
    Abstract: A multi-media print includes a decoding module, a configuration memory, and a parameter determination module. The decoding module decodes print job parameters and print job data, and outputs decoded print job parameters including decoded print job media selection parameters and the decoded print job data. The configuration memory stores default configuration parameters. The parameter determination module receives the decoded print job parameters including the decoded print job media selection parameters and the decoded print job data and also receives the default configuration parameters including the default media selection parameters from the configuration memory. The parameter determination module determines the final print job media selection parameters for the print job, utilizing the decoded print job media selection parameters and the default media selection parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Edwards, Alan J. Gilbert, Gary W. Keefe, Peter O. Botten
  • Publication number: 20090296540
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for storing on a portable computer-readable medium, a study comprising at least one medical output produced by a medical modality and formatted in a standard medical format used by specialized computers configured for viewing outputs produced by medical modalities, and optionally labeling the portable computer-readable medium. The method includes receiving a transmission comprising the medical output that is formatted according to the standard medical format, at least temporarily storing the medical output as it is received in a buffer memory to be subsequently stored onto the portable computer-readable medium, and storing the medical output from the buffer memory onto the portable computer-readable medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan J. Gilbert, Richard M. Edwards, Stephen N. Mucher, Jeffrey L. Spencer, Gary W. Keefe, Christopher M. Tainer, Garvin Seto, Bret E. Orsburn, Peter O. Botten, Heidi Shaffer
  • Patent number: D694817
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Codonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Adam, Peter Botten, Lawrence Srnka