Patents Assigned to Innovive, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11643248
    Abstract: Provided herein are animal containment cage bases and covers that can be nested to disengage and/or collapse one or more cage components or one or more cage component mount members from a cage base or cage cover. Also provided herein are methods of removing cage components or cage component mount members from cage bases and cage covers by nesting. Also provided herein, is a detachable animal containment cage component grommet and methods of use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Innovive, Inc.
    Inventors: Francesca McGuffie, Dee L. Conger, Daniel Romane
  • Patent number: 11602122
    Abstract: Provided herein are animal waste collecting animal containment cages for collecting and separating feces and urine from an animal or animals. Also provided herein are animal waste collecting animal containment cages that are disposable and are for single use. Also provided herein are animal waste collecting animal containment cages that are disposed within a rack. Also provided herein are methods of using and manufacturing an animal waste collecting animal containment cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Dee Conger, Francesca McGuffie
  • Patent number: 10842124
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods that facilitate animal enrichment and breeding in animal containment environments. Provided in certain embodiments are animal containment enrichment compositions that include one or more sheets, where at least one of the one or more sheets comprises an array of scores defining a flat array of strips in the sheet. Provided in certain embodiments are animal containment enrichment compositions that include one or more sheets, where at least one of the one or more sheets comprises an array of scores defining a flat array of sections of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Gilles Speter, Leroy Jenson
  • Patent number: 10820568
    Abstract: Provided herein are animal waste collecting animal containment cages for collecting and separating feces and urine from an animal or animals. Also provided herein are animal waste collecting animal containment cages that are disposable and are for single use. Also provided herein are animal waste collecting animal containment cages that are disposed within a rack. Also provided herein are methods of using and manufacturing an animal waste collecting animal containment cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Francesca McGuffie
  • Patent number: 10729098
    Abstract: Methods, devices, apparatuses and systems for monitoring the presence or absence of a contaminant and/or a contaminant sampling element, or portion thereof, in an animal rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Cory J. Spivey
  • Patent number: 10448612
    Abstract: Provided are animal containment systems and components, including single-use animal containment cages and modular rack units. Also provided are methods for assembling and using components of the animal containment systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Innovive, Inc.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Thomas M. Perazzo
  • Patent number: 10314287
    Abstract: Provided are animal containment systems and components, including single-use animal containment cages and modular rack units. Also provided are methods for assembling and using components of the animal containment systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Innovive, Inc.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Thomas M. Perazzo, Matthew D. D'Artenay, Francesca McGuffie
  • Patent number: 10278361
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems for convenient management of animals within a rodent containment cage system that includes labeling components, receiving data, associating the data, reporting the data and/or associations and locating components within the cage system. The management of the system may be self-contained, networked through a controller, local server and/or main server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: INNOVIVE, Inc.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Cory J. Spivey, Michael A. Roes, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson
  • Patent number: 9888667
    Abstract: Provided are animal containment systems and components, including single-use animal containment cages and modular rack units. Also provided are methods for assembling and using components of the animal containment systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Innovive, Inc.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Thomas M. Perazzo, Matthew D. D'Artenay, Francesca McGuffie
  • Patent number: 9706752
    Abstract: Provided are animal containment systems and components, including single-use animal containment cages and modular rack units. Also provided are methods for assembling and using components of the animal containment systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Thomas M. Perazzo, Matthew D. d'Artenay, Francesca McGuffie
  • Patent number: 9516857
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems for convenient management of animals within a rodent containment cage system that includes labeling components, receiving data, associating the data, reporting the data and/or associations and locating components within the cage system. The management of the system may be self-contained, networked through a controller, local server and/or main server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Cory Spivey, Michael A. Roes, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson
  • Patent number: 9516858
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems for convenient management of animals within a rodent containment cage system that includes labeling components, receiving data, associating the data, reporting the data and/or associations and locating components within the cage system. The management of the system may be self-contained, networked through a controller, local server and/or main server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Cory Spivey, Michael A. Roes, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson
  • Patent number: 9265229
    Abstract: Provided are animal containment systems and components, including single-use animal containment cages and modular rack units. Also provided are methods for assembling and using components of the animal containment systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Innovive, Inc.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Thomas M. Perazzo, Matthew D. d'Artenay, Francesca McGuffie
  • Patent number: 9155283
    Abstract: Provided herein are slidable “drawer” animal containment systems that allow for ready access to contained animals. In certain embodiments, the animal containment systems include disposable cages, and the systems are ventilated in some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Francesca McGuffie, Thomas M. Perazzo, Matthew D. D'Artenay
  • Patent number: 9066494
    Abstract: Provided are animal containment systems and components, including single-use animal containment cages and modular rack units. Also provided are methods for assembling and using components of the animal containment systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Thomas M. Perazzo, Matthew D. d'Artenay, Asa Cannell
  • Patent number: 8739737
    Abstract: A rack system having shelves configured to support a plurality of disposable animal cages may include a modular configuration that is adapted to easily provide a desired rack size during manufacturing. A rack system may also include shelves which are configured to receive disposable cages and which have spring biased rails configured to receive edges of the disposable cages and provide a spring bias pushing apertures of a cage against nozzles of the shelf to provide a seal therebetween. A rack system may also include shelves which are configured to receive disposable cages and which have resilient flexible lids configured to deflect for releasable engagement into the rack assembly and establish a seal between the nozzle and receptacle for a controllable flow of air therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Innovive, Inc.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson, Cory Spivey
  • Publication number: 20140123906
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems for convenient management of animals within a rodent containment cage system that includes labeling components, receiving data, associating the data, reporting the data and/or associations and locating components within the cage system. The management of the system may be self-contained, networked through a controller, local server and/or main server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Innovive, Inc.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Cory Spivey, Michael A. Roes, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson
  • Publication number: 20130228134
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems for convenient management of animals within a rodent containment cage system that includes labeling components, receiving data, associating the data, reporting the data and/or associations and locating components within the cage system. The management of the system may be self-contained, networked through a controller, local server and/or main server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Innovive, Inc.
    Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Cory Spivey, Michael A. Roes, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson
  • Publication number: 20130220229
    Abstract: Provided are animal containment systems and components, including single-use animal containment cages and modular rack units. Also provided are methods for assembling and using components of the animal containment systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Innovive, Inc.
    Inventor: Innovive, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130160716
    Abstract: Provided are animal containment systems and components, including single-use animal containment cages and modular rack units. Also provided are methods for assembling and using components of the animal containment systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: Innovive, Inc.
    Inventor: Innovive, Inc.