Patents Examined by Andrew M. Gilbert
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Patent number: 10335584Abstract: Cap and cleaning devices antiseptically maintain patient fluid line access valves to minimize the risk of infection via catheters. The devices have a cap that may contain a dry pad impregnated with an antimicrobial agent. The cap covers the access portion of the access valve when not in use. The devices have a hood that contains a wet pad impregnated with a cleaning solution and, optionally, an antimicrobial agent. The wet pad cleans the access portion of the access valve prior to and optionally, after the access valve is utilized to access the patient fluid line.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Minh Quang Hoang, Jonathan Karl Burkholz
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Patent number: 10314617Abstract: A tool for use in fixing the position of an implanted item beneath skin, comprises: a main body, a channel in the main body, the channel defining at least two gripping interfaces for engagement with the skin and around the implanted item, wherein the interfaces are positioned such that, when engaged with the skin, the interfaces retain the implanted item in a known position relative to the engaged skin. Methods of using the tool are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: REMOVAID ASInventor: Marte Bratlie
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Patent number: 10300193Abstract: A controller for a programmable medical pump is configured to select a drug library file that corresponds to a received medication name and determine a number of times status information is received within a designated time period from a current time during an infusion therapy. The example controller is also configured to determine if the number of times the status information is received comports with an accumulated medication dosage limit using a dose per administration program parameter. Responsive to the number of times the status information is received matching or exceeding the accumulated medication dosage limit, the controller is configured to prevent another administration of the medication until enough time has passed such that the number of times the status information has been received within the designated time period from the current time is less than the accumulated medication dosage limit.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Baxter International Inc.Inventors: Janice Stewart, Randolph Meinzer, Debra K. Bello, Janet Mullan, James D. Jacobson, Tuan Bui, Qui Chau
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Patent number: 10293091Abstract: A dialysis system including a disposable fluid pumping cassette including at least one flexible membrane attached to a housing and at least one port extending from the housing, the at least one port including a spike; at least one dialysis fluid supply in fluid communication with at least one tubing and tubing connector; an autoconnection device including a shuttle for moving the at least one tubing and tubing connector towards the spike of the at least one port, the autoconnection device including at least one lead screw in mechanical communication with the shuttle, a motor and power transmission equipment to transmit power from the motor to the at least one lead screw; and a controller programmed to operate the motor to move the at least one tubing and tubing connector towards the spike of the at least one port of the disposable fluid pumping cassette.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignees: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC., BAXTER HEALTHCARE S.A.Inventors: Robert W. Childers, Patrick Lee, Andrey Kopychev, Douglas Reitz, Rodolfo Roger, John E. Steck
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Patent number: 10272235Abstract: Various embodiments of a pelvic treatment system and method are provided. The present invention can include one or more drug eluting darts or barbs that are lodged into the wall and will elute the drug over a desired time period (weeks, months for example) to treat OAB, BPH, tissue weaknesses, or other disorders or diseases.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: John Jason Buysman, Brian P. Watschke
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Patent number: 10272260Abstract: Methods and devices for diagnosing, monitoring, and/or treating tissue through an opening or port through an airway wall. A passageway is created extending from the airway to the target tissue. The passageway provides local access to the target tissue for treatment instruments and for delivering agents.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Broncus Medical Inc.Inventors: Gary S. Kaplan, Michael D. Laufer, Thomas M. Keast, Cary Cole, Henky Wibowo, Edmund J. Roschak
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Patent number: 10272199Abstract: Delivery of more than one therapeutic fluid as a means to control symptoms of a health conditions is disclosed. More than one therapeutic fluid may be dispensed from more than one reservoir and delivered to a user's body via one or more cannula that penetrate the skin. The therapeutic fluids may be delivered by action of one or more pumping mechanisms that may be controlled by a processor in a portable, ambulatory device. The therapeutic fluids may optionally be insulin and one or more of an amylin analog, pramlintide acetate and an exenatide, and the health condition may optionally be diabetes. This device can be used in combination with a glucometer.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Ofer Yodfat, Gali Shapira
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Patent number: 10266802Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for providing at least one biological effect in at least one microorganism. The aforementioned method comprises steps of: (a) providing a system for administering modified plasma; (b) providing a substrate hosting said at least one microorganism; and (c) administering the generated modified plasma beam in a predetermined pulsed manner to said substrate hosting said at least one microorganism to provide said at least one biological effect to said at least one microorganism. The present invention further provides a system thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: ORTERON (T.O) LTD.Inventors: Orit Ish-Yamini Tomer, Tamar Levin
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Patent number: 10265502Abstract: The present invention relates to a catheter that has adjustable stiffness that enables a user to select the stiffness of at least one region of the catheter during insertion and navigation through a body lumen. A preferred embodiment of the invention works in combination with a guidewire to enable placement of the catheter at a position within the vascular system, for example, to enable treatment of a variety of medical conditions. The catheter can include segments that undergo relative movement in response to actuation by the user to adjust the flexibility of the at least one region, preferably located at or near the distal end of the catheter.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.Inventors: Leo Lee Tsai, Yuyin Chen, Vyas Ramanan
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Patent number: 10258732Abstract: A split-tip catheter for placement within the vasculature of a patient and for use in hemodialysis or other suitable procedures. In one embodiment, the split-tip catheter includes a catheter body defining a first lumen and a second lumen, and a split distal region extending from a distal end of the catheter body. The split distal region includes an arterial segment defined by an outer wall enclosing an arterial segment lumen, the arterial segment lumen in fluid communication with the catheter body first lumen, and a venous segment defined by an outer wall enclosing a venous segment lumen, the venous segment lumen in fluid communication with the catheter body second lumen, the venous segment outer wall extending from the catheter body distal end to a distal nose portion. The distal nose portion may taper distally from a first outer perimeter to a second outer perimeter smaller than the first outer perimeter.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Colin S. Gregersen, Ryan T. Moehle, Ryan C. Patterson
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Patent number: 10251779Abstract: Injection devices for delivering pharmaceutical formulations into the eye are described. The devices may be integrated to include features that allow safe and atraumatic manipulation of the devices with one hand. For example, accurate placement, including proper angulation, of the device on the eye and injection of a pharmaceutical formulation into the eye can be performed using one hand. The devices may also include improved safety features. For example, the devices may include an actuation mechanism that controls the rate and depth of injection into the eye. Some devices include a dynamic resistance component capable of adjusting the amount of pressure applied to the eye surface. Related methods and systems comprising the devices are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: OcuJect, LLCInventor: Leonid E. Lerner
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Patent number: 10245374Abstract: A pump for administering an agent to a patient includes a housing, a motor, a gearbox, a sensor, and a controller. The motor may be coupled to housing. The gearbox is operatively connected to said motor. The sensor senses a rotation of said motor. The controller acts to control operation of said motor and monitor the quantity of said agent delivered to said patient. The pump also includes a pump assembly such that the pump is configured such that the pump assembly may be interchangeable from a syringe pump assembly and a peristaltic pump assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: DEKA Products Limited PartnershipInventors: Dean Kamen, Larry B. Gray, Jesse T. Bodwell, John M. Kerwin, Michael J. Baier, Dirk A. van der Merwe
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Patent number: 10245352Abstract: Elongated shaft for a catheter including a single layer biaxially oriented nonporous thermoplastic polymer tubular member having a Shore durometer hardness of less than about 75D is provided. Elongated shaft for a catheter prepared by a process is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Bruce M. Wilson, Jonathan P. Durcan, John A. Simpson
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Patent number: 10232144Abstract: Implants comprising electrically-responsive hydrogel are described. Systems to provide electricity to induce response in hydrogel-containing implants are described. Methods for utilizing said system and methods for utilizing said hydrogel-containing implants are described.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: MicroVention, Inc.Inventors: Ross Tsukashima, Heath Bowman
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Patent number: 10201654Abstract: A programming device for an implantable drug pump includes a display device, a communication device, and a controller. The communication device is adapted to facilitate a communication link between the programming device and an implantable drug pump. The controller adapted to receive bolus data stored on the implantable drug pump when the communications link has been established, to process the bolus data, and to control the display device to generate a visual representation of numbers of bolus attempts for multiple periodic time intervals.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2015Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Medallion Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Pedrum Minaie, Daniel Hernandez Villegas, Brian Michael Shelton
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Patent number: 10201664Abstract: An electronic logging unit adapted to be housed in a drug-filled cartridge having an axially displaceable piston and an outer cavity formed between the piston and the cartridge proximal opening, the logging unit comprising a general axis, a first distal portion adapted to engage the cartridge piston, and a second proximal portion adapted to engage a rotating element having a rotational axis corresponding to the general axis. The unit is provided with sensor means adapted to detect the amount of relative rotation between the first and second portions, and storage means adapted to store data representing detected amounts of relative rotation.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2014Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/SInventors: John Oestergaard Madsen, Jesper Peter Windum
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Patent number: 8177767Abstract: A cartridge having a distal end provided with a mechanical coding. The coding has the form of a circular protrusion where the circular outer diameter is dedicated a specific concentration of insulin contained in the cartridge. The distal end of the cartridge is fitted in to a circular contour in the housing. The outer diameter of the protrusion on the distal end of the cartridge is chosen as a larger diameter for a higher concentration of insulin. In this way only a cartridge containing the correct concentration or a lower concentration fits into a delivery system designed for a specific concentration of insulin.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/SInventors: Lars Thougaard Kristensen, Lars Korsbjerg Nielsen, Kim Steengaard, Morten Bæk Jensen
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Patent number: 8016752Abstract: A catheter provided with a guidewire catheter lumen having a thin covering that is easily punctured by a guidewire at virtually any desired point along the catheter length. The thin covering may be integral with the catheter shaft, or may be a separate component that covers only the portion of the catheter shaft immediately adjacent the outer portion of the guidewire lumen, or may be a thin tubular construct that surrounds the entire catheter shaft. The covering is preferably relatively translucent, allowing for good visualization of the location of the end of the guidewire to enable puncturing of the covering at the desired location along the length of the catheter shaft. The covering is also preferably tear resistant at puncture sites. The catheter shaft is preferably made of a material having a color that provides good visibility against an operating field, and more preferably is phosphorescent either entirely or in part.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2003Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Joseph R. Armstrong, Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury, Michael J. Vonesh
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Patent number: 8002714Abstract: A first guidewire structure includes a medical guidewire having a working portion which is extendable beyond a distal end of a medical instrument. The working portion has a length, and the working portion is tapered for substantially one-hundred percent of the length. A second guidewire structure includes a medical guidewire having a working portion, wherein the working portion has a length, and wherein the working portion includes a tapered portion for over fifty percent of the length. A third guidewire structure includes a medical guidewire having a working portion. The working portion has a length, and the working portion includes a plurality of lengthwise-adjoining segment pairs for over fifty percent of the length. Each segment pair consists essentially of a non-tapered segment having a substantially constant cross section and a tapered segment lengthwise adjoining the non-tapered segment. Methods are described for using medical instruments having the guidewire structures.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.Inventor: Gregory J. Bakos
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Patent number: 7998114Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for regulating pressure applied during a medical procedure, including an inelastic housing enclosing an inner volume, a housing having a first and second end; an aperture in the housing, the aperture for coupling to an element for applying a pressure during a medical procedure, the element having an inner volume communicated with the inner volume of the housing; and a pressure-operated valve coupled to the housing for providing access to the inner volume of the housing when pressure in the housing is above a threshold, whereby the valve releases pressure from within the inner volume of the housing. The method and apparatus are particularly useful in preparation of conduits such as veins and arteries during grafting procedures.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2004Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: MAQUET Cardiovascular LLCInventor: Pierluca Lombardi