Patents Assigned to Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12594217
    Abstract: A medical device system including a wearable harness worn, during use, on a torso of a subject. Engines coupled to the wearable harness apply an oscillation force to at least one treatment area of the subject in order to mobilize at least some secretions in an airway within the subject substantially adjacent to the at least one treatment area. The wearable harness is secured on the subject using one or more straps coupled to the wearable harness. A controller determines a tension force applied by at least one of the straps by receiving measurements of at least one property from a force sensing element (e.g., a force sensor) integrated with the strap. The tension force may also be correlated to forces being applied to the subject by the engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Harold David Shockley, Jr., Geoffrey Albert Marcek, Robert Wiley Ellis
  • Patent number: 12377013
    Abstract: Compression garment systems and methods may deliver fluid to one or more fluid cells using a target pressure and an adjustable manifold pressure that may be adjusted to, for example, deliver an amount of fluid to the one or more fluid cells to achieve the desired target pressure. Further, the compression garment systems and methods may provide a graphical user interface depicting a human-shaped graphical element and a compression therapy graphical indication about the human-shaped graphical element. The compression therapy graphical indication may indicate, or show, where on the human-shaped graphical element the compression therapy may be delivered to. Still further, the compression garment systems and methods may include or use a communication interface to determine or identify a compression garment to be used therewith. The identity of the compression garment can be used to configure compression therapy for the compression garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Mark R. Riley, Gregory Robert Straka
  • Patent number: 12076295
    Abstract: Compression garment systems may include a trunk garment and a leg garment to be positioned about a trunk and leg of a body to provide compression therapy thereto. The trunk garment and the garment may include a plurality of controllable pressure applying regions to move lymph from the leg and trunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble, Mark R. Riley, Wade Andrew Zander
  • Patent number: 11944585
    Abstract: Compression garments may include mitts and tightening apparatus to don, or put on, such compression garments. The mitts may be configured to receive a user's hand such that the user can move one or more portions of the garments using the mitts. The tightening apparatus may allow a user to selectively tighten or loosen the garments about the user's body portions. Once donned, the compression garments may apply pressure to one or more regions of the user's body such as, e.g., arm regions, shoulder regions, torso regions, and neck regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Darren Jay Wennen, Kristian Dior Gamble
  • Patent number: 11648172
    Abstract: Compression garment systems and methods may deliver fluid to one or more fluid cells using a target pressure and an adjustable manifold pressure that may be adjusted to, for example, deliver an amount of fluid to the one or more fluid cells to achieve the desired target pressure. Further, the compression garment systems and methods may provide a graphical user interface depicting a human-shaped graphical element and a compression therapy graphical indication about the human-shaped graphical element. The compression therapy graphical indication may indicate, or show, where on the human-shaped graphical element the compression therapy may be delivered to. Still further, the compression garment systems and methods may include or use a communication interface to determine or identify a compression garment to be used therewith. The identity of the compression garment can be used to configure compression therapy for the compression garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Mark R. Riley, Gregory Robert Straka
  • Patent number: 11484462
    Abstract: Pneumatic and therapeutic compression systems are disclosed including treatment protocols that may be used with such systems. A pneumatic compression system may include a source and sink of a pressurizing fluid. The pressurizing fluid may be sourced to a number of valves, each valve controllable by a control device including a computing device. The computing device may control each valve separately to allow any one or more of the valves to connect to the fluid source or the fluid sink. The computing device may include one or more therapeutic protocols that may direct one, two, or more valves to switch between fluid sourcing and fluid sinking, substantially simultaneously or in a sequence. A therapeutic compression system may include the pneumatic system in fluid communication with an inflation sleeve composed of multiple cells. Each cell may be inflated or deflated by a valve according to the therapeutic protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Carol L. Wright, Gregory Yurko
  • Patent number: 11471070
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for measuring the size of body parts treated by a compression therapy device. Either the volume or circumference of the body part may be measure. The methods my include evacuating an inflatable compression sleeve to a known pressure, inserting the body part into the compression sleeve, inflating the sleeve to a pre-set condition, and then measuring one or more inflation related parameters. The pre-set conditions may include a predetermined pressure, volume, or size of the inflatable cells comprising the sleeve. The inflation related parameters may include the time to fill the cell to a pre-set pressure, the pressure attained after a pre-set time of inflation, or the measure volume of a cell after a pre-set amount of air is introduced into it. The methods may also include deflating the cells from the known inflation state to a second inflation state and measuring similar parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Carol L. Wright, Gregory Yurko
  • Patent number: 11376184
    Abstract: Compression systems and methods may include a garment configured to be donned on, for example, a head and a neck of a body. For example, the garment may include a static garment portion configurable to apply a static pressure to a portion of the head and a dynamic garment portion including one or more pressure applying regions controllable to apply pressure to the head and neck. Further, a controller may be configured to control pressure applied by the one or more pressure applying regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren Jay Wennen, Wade Andrew Zander, Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble, Mark R. Riley, Alison Humble Golla, Sunday Jo Hoy, Julie Louise Green, Jason Grant Tilk, Jason R. Ertel, Rachel Nottingham Colosimo, Carolyn Marie McNeeley, Rebecca L. Blice
  • Patent number: 11311450
    Abstract: A compression garment system and method that may include a head garment portion configured to be donned on a head of a body. The compression garment and method may further include a neck garment portion configured to be donned on a neck of the body. A controller may be configured to control pressure applied by each of one or more head pressure applying regions and/or each of one or more neck pressure applying regions to move lymph at least from the head towards the neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren Jay Wennen, Wade Andrew Zander, Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble, Mark R. Riley, Alison Humble Golla, Sunday Jo Hoy, Julie Louise Green, Jason Grant Tilk, Jason R. Ertel, Rachel Nottingham Colosimo, Carolyn Marie McNeeley, Rebecca L. Blice
  • Patent number: 11166868
    Abstract: Compression garments and methods may include a head garment configured to be positioned around both sides of a head of a body from a posterior of the head to an anterior of the head (e.g., wherein the head garment may include a plurality of controllable head pressure applying regions positionable proximate at least cheeks and a posterior of the head) and a neck garment (e.g., coupled to the head garment). The compression garments and methods may also include a torso garment. Such garment portions may include one or more controllable pressure applying regions to move lymph from the head downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren Jay Wennen, Wade Andrew Zander, Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble, Mark R. Riley, Alison Humble Golla, Sunday Jo Hoy, Julie Louise Green, Jason Grant Tilk, Jason R. Ertel, Rachel Nottingham Colosimo, Carolyn Marie McNeeley, Rebecca L. Blice
  • Patent number: 11154452
    Abstract: Compression garments and methods may include a head garment configured to be positioned around both sides of a head of a body from a posterior of the head to an anterior of the head and a torso garment. Such garment portions may include one or more controllable pressure applying regions to move lymph from the head downward to the torso.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Mark R. Riley, Kristian Dior Gamble, Gregory R. Straka
  • Patent number: 11058599
    Abstract: Compression garments may include mitts and tightening apparatus to don, or put on, such compression garments. The mitts may be configured to receive a user's hand such that the user can move one or more portions of the garments using the mitts. The tightening apparatus may allow a user to selectively tighten or loosen the garments about the user's body portions. Once donned, the compression garments may apply pressure to one or more regions of the user's body such as, e.g., arm regions, shoulder regions, torso regions, and neck regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Darren Jay Wennen, Kristian Dior Gamble
  • Patent number: 10492974
    Abstract: Compression systems and methods for tightening a garment and/or applying a pressure through the garment may include a garment, a lacing system, and a tightening apparatus. The compression system may be used for tightening the garment about a portion of a body and/or applying pressure to a portion of the body by pressure applying regions of the garment. The lacing system may include lacing guide and at least one lace guided by the lacing guide members. The tightening apparatus may be coupled to the at least one lace and may be configured to apply tension on the at least one lace to tighten the garment about the portion of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Mark R. Riley, Kristian Dior Gamble, Nicholas J. Haupt
  • Patent number: D870297
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble, Mark R. Riley, Wade Andrew Zander
  • Patent number: D873497
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble
  • Patent number: D877459
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble
  • Patent number: D921207
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble, Mark R. Riley, Wade Andrew Zander
  • Patent number: D1036785
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble
  • Patent number: D1041014
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble, Mark R. Riley, Wade Andrew Zander
  • Patent number: D1108911
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble