Patents Assigned to Innovive, Inc.
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Patent number: 11643248Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Innovive, Inc.Inventors: Francesca McGuffie, Dee L. Conger, Daniel Romane
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Patent number: 11602122Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.Inventors: Dee Conger, Francesca McGuffie
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Patent number: 10842124Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.Inventors: Gilles Speter, Leroy Jenson
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Patent number: 10820568Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Francesca McGuffie
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Patent number: 10729098Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Cory J. Spivey
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Patent number: 10448612Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Innovive, Inc.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Thomas M. Perazzo
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Patent number: 10314287Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Innovive, Inc.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Thomas M. Perazzo, Matthew D. D'Artenay, Francesca McGuffie
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Patent number: 10278361Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: INNOVIVE, Inc.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Cory J. Spivey, Michael A. Roes, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson
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Patent number: 9888667Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Innovive, Inc.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Thomas M. Perazzo, Matthew D. D'Artenay, Francesca McGuffie
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Patent number: 9706752Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Thomas M. Perazzo, Matthew D. d'Artenay, Francesca McGuffie
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Patent number: 9516858Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Cory Spivey, Michael A. Roes, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson
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Patent number: 9516857Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 10, 2011Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Cory Spivey, Michael A. Roes, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson
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Patent number: 9265229Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Innovive, Inc.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Thomas M. Perazzo, Matthew D. d'Artenay, Francesca McGuffie
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Patent number: 9155283Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 10, 2008Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Francesca McGuffie, Thomas M. Perazzo, Matthew D. D'Artenay
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Patent number: 9066494Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: INNOVIVE, INC.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Thomas M. Perazzo, Matthew D. d'Artenay, Asa Cannell
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Patent number: 8739737Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Innovive, Inc.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson, Cory Spivey
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Publication number: 20140123906Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Innovive, Inc.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Cory Spivey, Michael A. Roes, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson
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Publication number: 20130228134Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: Innovive, Inc.Inventors: Dee L. Conger, Cory Spivey, Michael A. Roes, Francesca McGuffie, Leroy Jenson
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Publication number: 20130220229Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: Innovive, Inc.Inventor: Innovive, Inc.
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Publication number: 20130160716Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: Innovive, Inc.Inventor: Innovive, Inc.