Patents Assigned to Coloplast A/S
  • BODY SIDE MEMBER OF AN OSTOMY APPLIANCE
    Publication number: 20180289527
    Abstract: A body side member of an ostomy appliance that is convertible between a first position in which a user has access to a first film layer for adhering a first adhesive to the skin surface, and a second position in which the user does not have access to the first film layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: Coloplast A/S
    Inventor: Mireia Gordi Vila
  • ADHESIVE OSTOMY WAFER HAVING A LINER REMOVED TO EXPOSE ADHESIVE
    Publication number: 20180263805
    Abstract: An adhesive ostomy wafer has a liner removed to expose adhesive and thus ready the adhesive ostomy wafer for adhesion to a user. The adhesive ostomy wafer includes a backing layer providing a distal surface of the adhesive ostomy wafer that is oriented to face away from skin of the user during use, an adhesive layer deposited onto the backing layer, with the adhesive layer providing a proximal surface of the adhesive ostomy wafer, an opening formed through the backing layer and the adhesive layer, with the opening adapted to fit around a stoma of the user, and a reinforcement structure located between the distal surface and the proximal surface of the adhesive ostomy wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Peter Kwok Hing Lam, Matthew Laws, Liam O'Brien, Michael Hansen, Birthe Vestbo Andersen, Kristoffer Hansen, Steffen Kongensbjerg Larsen
  • Method of treating urinary incontinence
    Patent number: 10076394
    Abstract: A method of treating urinary incontinence is disclosed. The method includes guiding a tip of an introducer tool through a length of a soft tissue anchor and out of an end of the soft tissue anchor. The method includes pushing the tip of the introducer tool and the soft tissue anchor into tissue on a side of a urethra, penetrating the tissue with the tip of the introducer tool, and delivering the soft tissue anchor into the tissue. The method includes removing the tip of the introducer tool from the soft tissue anchor and allowing a plurality of projections connected to the soft tissue anchor to expand thus anchoring the soft tissue anchor in the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventor: James Browning
  • Human waste collection bag
    Patent number: 10076438
    Abstract: A human waste collection bag comprising a front wall facing away from the skin and a rear wall facing towards the skin, the walls being made from flexible material, the bag having an inlet opening for receiving human waste, wherein at least the front wall has a gray or grayish color that provides low contrast to the wearer's skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Jakob Bendix, Hans Falleboe, Marcus Hoggarth, Jeanne Marell
  • Packaged catheter
    Patent number: 10065014
    Abstract: A packaged catheter includes a cover attachable to a container, an intermittent urinary catheter, and a urine collection bag. The container has a closed bottom and an opening formed in a proximal end of the container and communicating with a container cavity. The intermittent urinary catheter has a proximal portion insertable into a bladder and a handle portion connected to the proximal portion; and a urine collection bag connected to the handle portion of the intermittent urinary catheter. The handle portion of the intermittent urinary catheter is inserted into the opening formed in the proximal end of the container to provide a sealing structure between the handle portion and the opening in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventor: Bent Hagel
  • Implantable device configured to treat pelvic organ prolapse
    Patent number: 10064714
    Abstract: An implant configured to treat prolapse of a pelvic organ includes a support member and an extension portion projecting from the support member. The extension portion has a barbed fixation means provided thereon for anchoring the extension portion into pelvic paravaginal tissue. The barbed fixation means allow bi-directional adjustment of the barbed fixation means relative to the tissue, and when suitably located, the barbed fixation means engage the tissue. The support member comprises a mesh material having a mass density of less than 50 g/m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventor: James Browning
  • Comfort layer for a collecting bag
    Patent number: 10045878
    Abstract: A collecting bag for human body wastes having a barrier film (20a, 20b) covered by a comfort layer (15) attached to the barrier film in an attachment zone wherein the comfort layer is a textile material that is attached to said barrier film in one or more zones of attachment such that not all of the fiber filaments of the textile material in the attachment zone(s) are embedded in the barrier film material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventor: Markus Freiding
  • Polymeric photoinitiators and photoinitiator monomers
    Patent number: 10040893
    Abstract: The present invention provides polymeric quaternary ammonium photoinitiators being co-polymers of photoinitiator monomers, as well as quaternary ammonium photoinitiator monomer being valuable intermediates in the preparation of such polymeric photoinitiators. Additionally, there is provided a polyacrylate obtained by radical polymerization of at least one acrylate monomer (Ac) in the presence of such polymeric photoinitiators. In the photoinitiator monomers and polymeric photoinitiators, a photoinitiator moiety and a quaternary ammonium are incorporated into the photoinitiator structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Niels Joergen Madsen, Petr Sehnal, David George Anderson, Bo Rud Nielsen
  • Polymeric photoinitiators
    Patent number: 10040902
    Abstract: A polyalkylether photoinitiator of the general formula I, R1(A1)r-(R2(A2)m-O)o—(R3(A3)n-O)p—R4(A4)s I, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and m, n, o, p, r and s are as defined herein and A1, A2, A3 and A4 are identical or different photoinitiator moieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Christian B. Nielsen, Niels Joergen Madsen, Christina Maj Joergensen
  • Hysteropexy mesh apparatuses and methods
    Patent number: 10034734
    Abstract: A hysteropexy apparatus includes a hysteropexy mesh and a package containing the hysteropexy mesh. The hysteropexy mesh includes an anterior vaginal portion that is substantially rectangular in shape, a right broad ligament portion that is substantially L-shaped, a left broad ligament portion that is substantially L-shaped, a sacral portion that is substantially rectangular in shape, and a posterior vaginal portion that is substantially rectangular in shape. The anterior vaginal portion is folded on a longitudinal midline. The sacral portion is folded onto the posterior vaginal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventor: Amir Shariati
  • Method of implanting a penile prosthetic by capturing a suture in a slot formed through an exterior surface of a needle
    Patent number: 10034752
    Abstract: One aspect provides advancing a distal end of a needle out of a bore of a tool, and capturing a suture in a slot formed through an exterior surface of the needle, with the suture engaged with a penile implant. The method includes retracting the distal end of the needle and a portion of the suture into the bore of the tool, and inserting a shaft of the tool into a corpora cavernosum of a penis and forcing the distal end of the needle and the portion of the suture out of the bore of the tool and through a glans of the penis. The method includes retracting the needle into the bore and retaining the portion of the suture exterior to the glans of the penis. Pulling on the suture pulls the penile implant into the corpora cavernosum of the penis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventor: Jeffrey Brian Taylor
  • Locking ring with lever arm
    Patent number: 10034792
    Abstract: A locking ring (1) for an ostomy coupling as well as an ostomy coupling is provided. The locking ring includes two extension arms (4,5) connected at a common fulcrum (6) that will act as a hinge, when the arms are rotated with respect to each other. A toggle-mechanism may be used in the locking ring. The extension arms will through a connection to the locking ring close the locking ring upon rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventor: Troels Pedersen
  • Method of fixating an implantable material in a patient
    Patent number: 10022116
    Abstract: A method of fixating an implantable material in a patient includes forming an incision in the patient. The method includes inserting an anchor into a bore of a cannula, with the anchor attached to a support by a suture that is looped through an eyelet of the anchor and engaged through the support. The method includes inserting the cannula into the incision and along a cannula path into soft tissue, and ejecting the anchor out of the bore of the cannula and into the soft tissue. The suture is pulled in a direction away from the patient, moving the anchor to position a length of the anchor transverse to the cannula path. The method includes tying a knot in the suture, driving the knot against the support, and fixating the support in the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Neal Poucher, Sarah J. Deitch, Allen Gaynor, Michael M. Witzmann
  • Method of treating urinary incontinence
    Patent number: 10022117
    Abstract: A method of treating urinary incontinence in a patient includes forming one and only one incision in the patient and implanting a base of a support by placing an anchor into tissue of an obturator foramen. The anchor is attached to the base of the support by a continuous suture loop that is looped through an eyelet of the anchor and engaged through the base of the support. The method includes breaking the continuous suture loop, tying a knot in the suture, and fixating the base of the support in the patient. An arm of the support is implanted by placing a second anchor into periosteum tissue lateral to a pubic symphysis with a second continuous suture loop looped through an eyelet of the second anchor and engaged through the arm of the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Neal Poucher, Sarah J. Deitch, Allen Gaynor, Michael M. Witzmann
  • Coupling for an ostomy appliance
    Patent number: 10010443
    Abstract: A coupling for an ostomy bag is provided. The coupling comprises a substantially non-extendable string functioning as locking ring in the coupling. The string is twisted by use of a tab when it is moved from an un-locked position to a locked position. A coupling as described can be made flexible and thereby more comfortable for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Kim Becker, Kaspar Matthison-Hansen, Troels Pedersen
  • Urinary catheter
    Patent number: 10010697
    Abstract: A urinary catheter includes a tube and a tip. The tube has a tube wall defining a lumen extending between a distal tube end and a proximal tube end, with an opening formed in the tube wall. The tip extends from the proximal tube end to a closed proximal tip end. An inside diameter of the lumen increases constantly along an entire length of the tube from a first inside diameter measured at the proximal tube end to a second inside diameter measured at the distal tube end, where the first inside diameter is smaller than the second inside diameter such that the lumen is formed in a conical shape that diverges from the proximal tube end to a wider cross-sectional opening at the distal tube end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Egon Triel, Johnny Wagner
  • Hydrophilic gels derived from grafted photoinitiators
    Patent number: 10011688
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for the manufacture of a gel, said method comprising the steps of: providing a matrix composition comprising a polymeric photoinitiator of the general formula (I): Polymer-[CR2—CHR-Spacer(PI)n]m (I) curing the matrix composition by exposing it to UV radiation and exposing the matrix composition to a swelling medium. The invention also relates to gels obtainable via the above method. The invention provides a hydrophilic gel precursor manufactured from the polymeric photoinitiator of Formula (I). Medical devices comprising the gels and hydrophilic gel precursors of the invention are provided. The invention also provides the use of a polymeric photoinitiator in the manufacture of a gel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Christian B. Nielsen, Niels Joergen Madsen, Carsten Hoej
  • Implantable support
    Patent number: D825063
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventor: Sarah J. Deitch
  • Endoscopy training module
    Patent number: D827855
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Anne Bournot, Olivier Traxer
  • Connector of an anal irrigation system
    Patent number: D828550
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Coloplast A/S
    Inventors: Hans Falleboe, Isak Frostå