Patents Assigned to Flowsense Ltd
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Patent number: 10617843Abstract: An arrangement adapted for enhanced continuous flow of urine in a catheterized patient, the arrangement comprising a catheter tube having an inner diameter of less than six millimeters, said tube having an inner surface which is hydrophobic at least along a first segment thereof and being adapted to provide a continuously negative fluid pressure therein.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: FLOWSENSE LTD.Inventor: Ilan Paz
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Patent number: 10362981Abstract: A method for diagnosing a body malfunction is provided. At least one change in urinary parameter values, being indicative of the body malfunction, is monitored and detected. A volumetric urinary output of kidneys is monitored using a urine flow monitoring apparatus having a low flow metering device. It is determined whether a change exists in at least one of a volume value of the volumetric urinary output, and a trend of the corresponding urinary parameter value during a predetermined period. Signals are received from a plurality of electrodes, representing the urinary parameter values. The body malfunction is detected based on the determination of the change in at least one of the volume value and the trend.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: FLOWSENSE LTD.Inventors: Ilan Paz, Martin Clive Henry Jackson, Stanley Chimes
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Patent number: 9867730Abstract: A tubing valve is provided, including a valve body; a valve stem configured to be inserted into the valve body; and a valve tip configured to be inserted and fixed into the valve stem on its top part after it is positioned inside the valve body and to provide a holding position to a tube on its bottom side, wherein the tubing valve is opened upon pushing the valve tip and closed upon pulling said tube off the valve tip.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: FLOWSENSE LTD.Inventor: Martin Clive Henry Jackson
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Patent number: 9687628Abstract: The present invention provides an arrangement (200) adapted for enhanced continuous flow of urine in a catheterized patient, the arrangement comprising a catheter tube (204) having an inner diameter of less than six millimeters, said tube having an inner surface which is hydrophobic at least along a first segment thereof and being adapted to provide a continuously negative fluid pressure therein.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: FLOWSENSE LTD.Inventor: Ilan Paz
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Patent number: 8827924Abstract: A diagnostic method and apparatus for detecting at least one change in a urinary parameter indicative of a body malfunction, the method comprising at least semi-continuously monitoring in real time at least one of a sodium level, an oxygen level, a potassium level, and combinations thereof in the urine of a catheterized patient; whereby at least one parameter is monitored so as to detect one or more changes in the at least one parameter to reflect at least one of a fluid state, an electrolyte balance, a kidney state, a kidney perfusion and an organ perfusion in the patient, indicative of the body malfunction in the patient, in which the monitoring is preferably performed through electrodes that are arranged perpendicularly to the flow of urine through a patient's catheter system.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: FlowSense Ltd.Inventors: Ilan Paz, Stanley Chimes, Martin Clive Henry Jackson
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Publication number: 20140074071Abstract: The present invention provides an arrangement (200) adapted for enhanced continuous flow of urine in a catheterized patient, the arrangement comprising a catheter tube (204) having an inner diameter of less than six millimeters, said tube having an inner surface which is hydrophobic at least along a first segment thereof and being adapted to provide a continuously negative fluid pressure therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: FLOWSENSE LTD.Inventor: Ilan PAZ
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Publication number: 20140073991Abstract: The present invention provides a diagnostic method comprising continuously monitoring and transmitting urine output and urine flow rates of a catheterized patient to means which correlate the same with at least one of renal perfusion, renal function, fluid status, polyuria, oleguria, hypoperfusion, hemorrhage shock and GFR.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: FlowSense Ltd.Inventors: Ilan PAZ, Natan PAZ
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Patent number: 8663128Abstract: The present invention provides a diagnostic method comprising continuously monitoring and transmitting urine output and urine flow rates of a catheterized patient to means which correlate the same with at least one of renal perfusion, renal function, fluid status, polyuria, oleguria, hypoperfusion, hemorrhage shock and GFR.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2007Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Flowsense Ltd.Inventors: Ilan Paz, Natan Paz
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Patent number: 8568387Abstract: The present invention provides an arrangement (200) adapted for enhanced continuous flow of urine in a catheterized patient, the arrangement comprising a catheter tube (204) having an inner diameter of less than six millimeters, said tube having an inner surface which is hydrophobic at least along a first segment thereof and being adapted to provide a continuously negative fluid pressure therein.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2008Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Flowsense Ltd.Inventor: Ilan Paz
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Patent number: 8471231Abstract: The invention provides an optical drop detection system (10), for a low-flow metering device of the type having a drop generator 12, 24, (19), the system comprising at least one optical transmitter (26) which produces a plurality of light beam pulses (28) of microsecond duration and at millisecond intervals, and at least one optical receiver (33) positioned to register receipt of the light pulses (28) transmitted through the path of drops (18) generated by the drop generator (12, 24, 19) and to record the number of pulses which hit a given drop and which do not register on the receiver (32), the frequency and strength of the pulses being calibrated so that a single drop is impinged upon by a plurality of pulses, and further comprising automatic feed-back means for adjusting the parameters of interaction between the at least one optical transmitter (26) and the at least one optical receiver (32) to produce and maintain a predetermined minimum and a predetermined maximum number of hits per drop.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Flowsense LtdInventor: Ilan Paz
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Publication number: 20110046516Abstract: The present invention provides a diagnostic method comprising continuously monitoring and transmitting urine output and urine flow rates of a catheterized patient to means which correlate the same with at least one of renal perfusion, renal function, fluid status, polyuria, oleguria, hypoperfusion, hemorrhage shock and GFR.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2007Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: FLOWSENSE LTD.Inventors: Ilan Paz, Natan Paz
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Patent number: 7763877Abstract: The invention provides an optical drop detection system (10), for a low-flow metering device of the type having a drop generator 12, 24, (19), the system comprising at least one optical transmitter (26) which produces a plurality of light beam pulses (28) of microsecond duration and at millisecond intervals, and at least one optical receiver (33) positioned to register receipt of the light pulses (28) transmitted through the path of drops (18) generated by the drop generator (12, 24, 19) and to record the number of pulses which hit a given drop and which do not register on the receiver (32), the frequency and strength of the pulses being calibrated so that a single drop is impinged upon by a plurality of pulses, and further comprising automatic feed-back means for adjusting the parameters of interaction between the at least one optical transmitter (26) and the at least one optical receiver (32) to produce and maintain a predetermined minimum and a predetermined maximum number of hits per drop.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2006Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Flowsense LtdInventor: Ilan Paz