Patents Examined by Annette Dixon
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Patent number: 12138393Abstract: A ventilator system includes a ventilator and a host. The ventilator comprises a ventilation drive configured to drive ventilation gas from a gas source to a patient and a patient interface section configured to guide inspiratory gas along an inspiratory path from the ventilation drive to a patient connection, and guide expiratory gas along an expiratory path from the patient connection out of the ventilator. The patient interface section is configured to releasably connect to the ventilation drive. The ventilator is configured to removably connect to the host such that at least one of the inspiratory path and the expiratory path are diverted through the host when the ventilator is removably connected to the host.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Timothy P. McCormick, Erkki Paavo Olavi Heinonen, Kimberly Brauer, Tom J. Haggblom
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Patent number: 12138385Abstract: An inhalation system including a fluid transfer member, a valve member, a cartridge assembly, and a mouthpiece, and a method of use thereof are provided. The valve member connects to an open end of the fluid transfer member. The cartridge assembly, positioned within the valve member, includes a substance holder and an absorbent member accommodated within a cartridge for containing and absorbing an inhaling substance. When the valve member connects to a vaporizer, the vaporizer heats the absorbent member to vaporize and release an inhaling fluid into the fluid transfer member. When the valve member connects to the mouthpiece, the valve member receives and transfers the inhaling fluid vapor from the fluid transfer member to a user's mouth via the mouthpiece. The locking mouthpiece assembly allows authentication of the user prior to releasing the inhaling fluid to the user's mouth.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Inventor: Eric R Benson
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Patent number: 12138388Abstract: A respiratory treatment device includes a housing enclosing a chamber, a chamber inlet configured to receive a flow of air into the chamber, a first chamber outlet configured to permit the flow of air to exit the chamber, and a second chamber outlet configured to permit the flow of air to exit the chamber. A vane mounted within the chamber is configured to rotate between a first position where the flow of air is directed to exit the chamber through the first chamber outlet, and a second position where the flow of air is directed to exit the chamber through the second chamber outlet. A blocking member disposed on the vane is moveable relative to the chamber inlet between a closed position where the flow of air through the chamber inlet is restricted, and an open position where the flow of air through the chamber inlet is less restricted.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Trudell Medical International Inc.Inventors: Adam Meyer, Dan Engelbreth
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Patent number: 12121660Abstract: A clear, soft and malleable plastic constructed face mask is provided that has an elastic strap that is used to secure the mask onto a patient's face. The mask comprises of a malleable aluminium strip on the top for easy molding of the mask around the patient's nose; a front opening covered with a paper filter; and two side openings covered with a paper filter. The mask provides supplemental oxygen through connection to a Y-shaped respiratory/ventilator circuit or standard oxygen tubing. The mask also allows the patient to breathe comfortably without a supplemental oxygen source. It has ribbed tubing for gas sampling. The mask allows a health care employee to visualize breathing on the clear plastic material. The mask provides filtration of aerosolized contaminants.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Inventor: Anil K Tiwari
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Patent number: 12121758Abstract: A nostril-shielding nasal mask includes a body including a top portion provided with an arcuate anterior section and arcuate posterior section engaged therewith, a hinge attached to the top portion, a bottom portion attached to the hinge and including a apertures aligned with the nostrils of the user, a scented and/or odor neutralizing air filter removably inserted into the bottom portion, and fasteners attached to the top portion and the bottom portion wherein the fasteners are configured to maintain the top portion and the bottom portion directly abutted against the nose bridge of the user and the nostrils of the user. The fasteners maintain the bottom portion at a first raised, non-operating position and a second lowered, operating position. The arcuate anterior section is engaged with the bottom portion when the bottom portion is disposed at the second lowered, operating position.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2024Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Inventor: Blake Livengood
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Patent number: 12115308Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for monitoring the disconnection of a patient interface system during the ventilation, in which values which are indicative for the time curve of the respiratory gas flow are established and subjected to data evaluation, and wherein an alarm is triggered on the basis of the data evaluation if at least one value which is indicative for the time curve of the respiratory gas flow deviates from a specific limit value for a specific period of time.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Loewenstein Medical Technology S.A.Inventors: Benjamin Adametz, Bjoern Tiemann
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Patent number: 12115316Abstract: A patient interface system for delivery of a supply of air at positive pressure to the entrance of a patient's airways for treatment of sleep disordered breathing includes an air delivery tube connected to a flexible portion of a plenum; a vent structure having sufficient rigidity to support its own weight under gravity and/or not to block or fold under tube movement or tube drag; and a patient interface structure. The patient interface structure includes a seal forming structure arranged on a top portion of the plenum; and a seal positioning and stabilizing structure connected to a flexible portion of the plenum. The seal-forming structure is substantially decoupled from a tube drag force.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Gerard Michael Rummery, Robert Edward Henry, Phoebe Katherine Hill, Andrew Hurst, Fiona Catherine Carroll
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Patent number: 12109358Abstract: Described is a method of stimulating airways of a mammal comprising: cyclically occluding a nasal air stream at a frequency rate between 50 Hz to 650 Hz. Also described is an apparatus for stimulating airways of a mammal, comprising: a fluid connection to each of a first and second naris of the mammal; and an occluding device configured to cyclically occlude a nasal air stream within each fluid connection at a frequency rate between 100 Hz to 650 Hz.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: AUT VENTURES LIMITEDInventors: David Edward White, Thomas George McLeod
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Patent number: 12109362Abstract: A nasal breathing and ventilation device, includes ventilation tubes. One end of each ventilation tube is provided with a nasal dilator. Each nasal dilator includes a nasal dilator channel and a plurality of dilator rings. One end of each nasal dilator channel is provided with a through hole. Each nasal dilator is supported and fixed in the nasal cavity by means of the dilator rings thereof, and is not easy to fall out. The end of each nasal dilator channel away from the through hole is in communication with each ventilation tube. The tube wall at the end of each ventilation tube close to the nasal dilator is provided with ventilation holes. The end of each ventilation tube away from the nasal dilator is connected to a ventilator, and the ventilator conveys air into the nasal cavity at a certain pressure.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG JIUCCO MEDICAL EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hua Lu, Jiejing Lu
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Patent number: 12102759Abstract: A respiratory mask can include one or a plurality of force sensors configured to detect a force imparted to a user's skin. Output from the one or more sensors can be represented in a way useful to the patient or healthcare provider for adjusting the mask to achieve a desired fitment. A representation of the detected forces can be displayed on a separate display device or on the mask.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Fadi Karim Moh'd Mashal, Matthew Roger Stephenson, Jeroen Hammer, Daniel John Smith, Jonathan David Harwood
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Patent number: 12097323Abstract: Systems and methods for a manually operable volume-adjustable ventilation device. In some embodiments, the device includes a reservoir with an inlet mechanism, an outlet mechanism, and a volume adjuster configured to move a volume adjustment limit of the reservoir and change an expressed maximum volume of the reservoir. The reservoir may have a body comprising a plurality of movable walls defining an enclosed volume. The walls of the reservoir may be movable such that movement expresses the volume adjustment limit of the reservoir. In addition, the walls may be operably connected by movable structures such that two adjacent walls are be configured to rotate around substantially orthogonal axes with respect to each other when the reservoir moves from an uncompressed to a compressed state. Methods of ventilating a patient that involve the manually operable volume-adjustable ventilation device are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: ArtiVent CorporationInventor: Ian Loren Halpern
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Patent number: 12097326Abstract: A patient interface for use in delivering a flow of a breathing gas to an airway of a patient includes a body that defines a cavity therein that is structured to receive the flow of breathing gas. A first aperture defined in the body is positioned and structured to communicate the flow of breathing gas from the cavity to an airway of the patient. A second aperture defined in the body is sized and configured to provide a pathway between the cavity and an ambient environment in which the body is disposed. The patient interface further includes a restrictor element that is selectively coupled to the body. The restrictor element includes a blocking portion that obstructs at least a portion of the second aperture.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Richard Thomas Haibach, Lauren Patricia Chodkowski, Anthony Vincent Startare, Michael Joseph Mussallem
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Patent number: 12083283Abstract: Method and apparatus varies the oxygen concentration level of air delivered to a person for treatment on training purposes. The apparatus includes a display device for displaying current physiological data as well as data from previous sessions for comparison purpose. The oxygen level is precisely controlled by a central processing unit in response to input data from the person.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Ergo-Flex Technologies, LLCInventor: J. T. Anderson
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Patent number: 12083282Abstract: The breathing assistance apparatus of the present invention includes a manifold that is provided with or retrofittable to gases supply and humidifying devices. The manifold allows gases from an oxygen concentrator to be combined with the flow through a gases supply and humidifying device, most usually air. The combined output of oxygen and other breathing gases (air) is then humidified. The breathing assistance apparatus and manifold of the present invention provides a safe method to add oxygen to the input air stream of a gases supply and humidifying device and reduces the amount of accumulation of oxygen within the gases supply device, reducing fire risk should sparking occur within the device.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE LIMITEDInventors: Martin Paul Friedrich Kramer, Kevin Peter O'Donnell, Christopher Simon James Quill, Matthew Jon Payton
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Patent number: 12083270Abstract: A nasal delivery device for and method of delivering substance to the middle meatus in a nasal cavity of a subject in the treatment of a condition, in particular an inflammatory or infectious condition, thereof, the delivery device comprising: a nosepiece unit (17) including a nosepiece (20) for fitting to a nostril of a subject and a nozzle (25) through which substance is in use delivered to the respective nasal cavity; and a delivery unit (29) for delivering substance through the nozzle of the nosepiece; wherein the delivery device is configured to provide for deposition of a significant fraction of the delivered dose on, around and in the vicinity of the middle meatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2007Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: OptiNose Inc.Inventors: Per Gisle Djupesland, Roderick Peter Hafner, Colin David Sheldrake
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Patent number: 12076487Abstract: A patient interface to deliver a flow of air at a positive pressure with respect to ambient air pressure to an entrance to the patient's airways to ameliorate sleep disordered breathing includes a frame assembly and a cushion assembly configured to removably and repeatably connect to the frame assembly. The frame assembly and the cushion assembly form at least part of a plenum chamber pressurizable to a therapeutic pressure. The cushion assembly comprises a one-piece construction including a seal-forming structure configured to form a seal with a region of a patient's face surrounding the entrance to the patient's airways and a frame connection structure configured to removably and repeatably connect the cushion assembly to the frame assembly. The seal-forming structure comprises a first elastomeric material and the frame connection structure comprises a second elastomeric material, the first elastomeric material comprising a lower durometer or hardness than the second elastomeric material.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Marvin Sugi Hartono, Michael Kenneth Truscott, Craig David Edwards, Chuan Foong Lee, Min Li Tee, Shannon Day, Nigel Paul Greig, Christopher Daniel Parker, Angelene Marie Ozolins, Jessica Lea Dunn, Bishavjot Singh, Vinay Manjunath, Chee Keong Ong, Lorenz Eberl
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Patent number: 12064560Abstract: Patient interfaces for respiratory therapy in the form of nasal interfaces or nasal masks include features that enhance or provide lateral stability of the interface. At least some of the embodiments provide multiple facial contact points or areas located in the general areas of the user's cheeks and/or upper lip. Some embodiments of the nasal interfaces provide advantageous sealing characteristics. The nasal interfaces may provide a controlled expiratory flow to reduce noise. Some embodiments include nasal pillows instead of or in addition to nasal prongs. The nasal pillows can have exhaust vents or can change in length in response to a pressure level within the nasal pillow.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Jonathan David Harwood, Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon, Kevin Peter O'Donnell
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Patent number: 12059252Abstract: A tubing assembly for use in providing a flow of positive pressure breathing gas to a patient. The tubing assembly includes a manifold portion structured to receive the flow of positive pressure breathing gas, a number of tubular portions which each extend from the manifold portion to a distal end which is structured to be coupled to a patient interface for use in delivering the flow of positive pressure breathing gas to the patient, and a reflectance pulse oximetry sensor positioned in or on one of the number of tubular portions. The sensor is structured to be disposed adjacent the patient when the tubing assembly is disposed on the patient for determining blood oxygen saturation levels of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventor: Elizabeth Powell Margaria
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Patent number: 12048815Abstract: A PAP device is configured to deliver a pressurized flow of respiratory gas to a patient's airways and includes a flow generator with a blower configured to pressurize the flow of respiratory gas. A flexible face seal is positioned at an outlet end of a blower discharge path. A tub configured to hold a body of water and humidify the pressurized flow of respiratory gas includes a heat conducting base plate and a side wall. A base supports both the flow generator and the tub and includes a floor with a heater plate and a spring biased catch configured to secure the tub to the base. The spring biased catch is configured so that applying a downward force on the tub so that the tub presses against the floor of the base secures the tub to the base and allows the tub to be released from the base.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Ian Malcolm Smith, John Michael Snow, Perry David Lithgow, Dan Kao
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Patent number: 12023446Abstract: A method is provided for controlling the gas temperature in medical devices by means of a state observer, e.g., in the field of laparoscopy or respiration, and to devices for carrying-out said method.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: W.O.M. WORLD OF MEDICINE GMBHInventors: Felix Menzel, Andreas Zeyssig, Johannes Koerner