Patents Assigned to Medafor
  • Method of supporting and/or applying particulate materials
    Patent number: 7517355
    Abstract: Masses of particles are structurally supported by the application of vacuum through a support surface having holes thereon that are smaller than the average diameter of the particle mass that is to be supported. The reduced pressure structurally supports particles on the support surface. The mass of particles tends is so well supported that it tends retain its shape unless additional forces are applied. The system comprises the vacuum applicator (e.g., pump), a vacuum carrying system and the support surface. When a mass of particles is supported on the support surface under vacuum, the particles can be carried to a target surface, the mass of particles pressed against the target surface, the mass conforming to the target surface, and the vacuum reduced or stopped, depositing the particle mass onto the surface in excellent shape compliance with that surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Medafor, Incorporated
    Inventors: James Franklin Drake, Lynn R. Skow
  • Material delivery system
    Patent number: 6992233
    Abstract: A delivery system for the delivery of flowable medicinal, therapeutic or medicine materials has a strip with flowable material contained and restrained therein. A removable seal is provided, so that when the removable seal is removed, the flowable material will flow from a storage area onto a site selected for treatment. The removable seal may be provided with additional features such as absorbent coatings, or additional disinfectants coatings useful in preparing the wound surface to receive the flowable wound treatment material. A preferred composition is a system, article and method for the enhancement of clotting in wounds with extravascular blood flow, especially where the surface of the tissue has been broken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: MedaFor, Inc.
    Inventors: James Franklin Drake, Mark Harold Ereth, Lynn R. Skow
  • Method of using derivatives of long chain fatty alcohols to treat neuronal degradation
    Patent number: 5447959
    Abstract: Derivatives of long-chain fatty alcohols, and methods of obtaining them, are provided, as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing derivatives and their uses, in particular in treating or preventing neuro-degenerative illnesses, conditions linked to skin ageing, the phenomena of thrombosis and atherosclerosis, and immune deficiencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Medafor
    Inventor: Jacques Borg
  • Derivatives of long chain fatty alcohols, their uses, particularly as cytotrophic and cytoprotective molecules, and pharmaceutical compositions containing them
    Patent number: 5243094
    Abstract: Derivatives of long-chain fatty alcohols, and methods of obtaining them, are provided, as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing derivatives and their uses, in particular in treating or preventing neuro-degenerative illnesses, conditions linked to skin ageing, the phenomena of thrombosis and atherosclerosis, and immune deficiencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: Medafor
    Inventor: Jacques Borg