Patents Assigned to Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.
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Patent number: 12594217Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 7, 2026Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Harold David Shockley, Jr., Geoffrey Albert Marcek, Robert Wiley Ellis
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Patent number: 12377013Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Mark R. Riley, Gregory Robert Straka
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Patent number: 12076295Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble, Mark R. Riley, Wade Andrew Zander
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Patent number: 11944585Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Darren Jay Wennen, Kristian Dior Gamble
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Patent number: 11648172Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Mark R. Riley, Gregory Robert Straka
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Patent number: 11484462Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Carol L. Wright, Gregory Yurko
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Patent number: 11471070Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Carol L. Wright, Gregory Yurko
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Patent number: 11376184Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11311450Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11166868Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11154452Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Mark R. Riley, Kristian Dior Gamble, Gregory R. Straka
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Patent number: 11058599Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Darren Jay Wennen, Kristian Dior Gamble
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Patent number: 10492974Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Mark R. Riley, Kristian Dior Gamble, Nicholas J. Haupt
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Patent number: D870297Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble, Mark R. Riley, Wade Andrew Zander
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Patent number: D873497Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble
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Patent number: D877459Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble
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Patent number: D921207Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Tactile Systems Technology, Inc.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble, Mark R. Riley, Wade Andrew Zander
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Patent number: D1036785Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble
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Patent number: D1041014Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble, Mark R. Riley, Wade Andrew Zander
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Patent number: D1108911Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 13, 2026Assignee: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Daniel G. Chase, Kristian Dior Gamble