Patents Examined by Colin W Stuart
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Patent number: 11819515Abstract: A system and method of use for an operational halotherapy device and red light device in an enclosed space. The halotherapy and red light system generally comprise a machine disposed in the enclosed space that disperses salt particles into the air, and includes a red light device that emits red light waves. The combination of both devices produces a refractory phenomenon when the red light waves make contact with the salt particles dispersed in the air to cause a plethora of multi-dimensional dispersions of light waves. Moreover, every time a salt particle makes contact with a red light wave, a portion of the wave light is absorbed by the particle and its temperature increases, lessening the moisture in the particle. The lessening of moisture in the particle dries the particle further, which enhances the therapeutic properties of the inhalable salt particle.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Inventors: John J. Brier, Edwin A. Weihenmayer, IV
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Patent number: 11813383Abstract: A respiratory mask can have a frame supporting a sealing arrangement. Various features of the frame and sealing arrangement can improve comfort and reduce the occurrence of pressure sores. The frame can include cheek supports that have a large surface area configured to spread loads over a greater area of the patient's face and therefore reduce the forces applied to the face and the occurrence of point loads. The seal can have a main body that includes a spring with a silicone skin, wherein the spring applies a substantially constant force to the face and/or nares of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon, Jonathan David Harwood
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Patent number: 11813385Abstract: A portable, efficient, integrated humidification system for use, e.g., with a positive airway pressure devices. The portable, efficient, integrated humidification system described herein offers many advantages over current humidification systems! There are many advantages to a portable respiratory humidifier. Portability reduces the amount of space the humidifier occupies in the user's bedroom environment. Portability enhances travel for the user. With less to pack, carry, and manage, the user is more likely to remain adherent to therapy when not at home. Portability allows for better utilization in recreational vehicles, while camping, in foreign countries, in the sleeping cabins of trucks or airliners, and on marine craft.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: ResMed Inc.Inventors: Thomas G. Goff, Kirby Chiang, Nathaniel Bowditch
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Patent number: 11813398Abstract: A pressure indicator for a respiratory treatment device, the pressure indicator including an instrument for measuring pressures, a conduit configured to transmit a pressure within the respiratory treatment device to the instrument, and a pressure stabilizer orifice positioned within the conduit.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Trudell Medical InternationalInventors: Neritan Alizoti, Chris Dobson, James Schmidt
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Patent number: 11814146Abstract: Methods and systems to provide breathing air to underwater divers in response to the divers' respiration at pressures less than 25 psi above atmospheric pressure during inspiration while delivering no or minimal air during exhalation, by controlling the actions of a pump during the time course of breathing. Methods and systems that sense a diver's need for breathing air, determine inhalation demand or exhalation state, and control the operation of a pump which delivers breathing gas to the diver via a tube. An integrated system for the same which incorporates at least an energy source (26), pump (28), air tube (30), breathing aperture (10), sensor (20), and logic processor (24) is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Setaysha Technical Solutions LLCInventor: John Craig Colborn
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Patent number: 11806558Abstract: Body-worn air-treatment devices include a body that is configured to be selectively coupled proximate to a respiratory tract inlet of a living individual, and a pathogen-deactivating mechanism that is supported by the body. Methods include deactivating pathogens proximate to a respiratory tract inlet of a living individual.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Clear BlewInventors: Joseph W. Bingold, Ian D. Gates, David S. D'Ascenzo, Wyatt T. Weaver
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Patent number: 11806452Abstract: An interface includes a mask. The mask includes a frame and a seal supported by the frame. Headgear is connected to the mask. The interface includes at least one of (i) an adjustment mechanism that can be set to a use length for a loop defined by the mask and the headgear; and (2) a break-fit assembly that can selectively lengthen the loop defined by the mask and the headgear and return to the use length.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Mark Arvind McLaren, Jeroen Hammer
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Patent number: 11801351Abstract: A concentrate adaptor for a vaporizer device includes a reservoir and a base. The reservoir holds a concentrate. The reservoir is positioned within a vessel of the vaporizer device and is heated by a heating element of the vaporizer device to transfer heat to the concentrate, thereby generating an aerosol for inhalation by a user. The reservoir includes a sidewall surrounding an interior volume of the reservoir. The reservoir also includes a capillary structure positioned along the sidewall configured to direct the concentrate to the sidewall to be heated by the heating element.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: JUUL Labs, Inc.Inventors: Franklyn Bucknor, Jr., Philipe Manoux, Jace Martin, Alexander Ringrose, John Maxwell Ringrose, Daniel Sargent, Ariel David Turgel, Michael Chad Makay, Mark Edward Hearn, Ricardo Verheul, Halle Ann Van De Hey
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Patent number: 11801197Abstract: A method to treat a dry eye condition of an individual, includes: receiving a switch signal generated based on a manipulation of a control switch at a handheld device; and activating a motor in response to the switch signal to oscillate a member at an oscillation frequency, the member having an elongated configuration, and having a portion for placement outside the individual; wherein the oscillation frequency is sufficient to induce tear production when the portion of the member is applied towards a surface of a body portion of the individual.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Olympic Ophthalmics, Inc.Inventors: Michael Gertner, Jimin Zhang, Arash Sabet
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Patent number: 11793716Abstract: A device and method are provided for therapy and treatment of biological tissue such as muscle, tendon, and ligament tissue, by use of a device and method in which therapeutic vibrational frequency resonance patterns are transmitted to tissues of a patient. The resonance frequencies originate from many resonance domains, including vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, and fatty acids. Each domain includes therapeutic frequency resonance patterns. These resonance patterns may be passively excited and transmitted to a patient to enhance tissue function, to decrease the normal rehabilitation time of damaged tissue, and provide therapeutic benefits for muscle tissue dysfunction. Therapeutic frequency resonance patterns may also be actively excited by a delivery mechanism that uses electromagnetic or mechanical waves to interact with the device. The actively excited device transmits the therapeutic frequency resonance patterns to the patients for similar enhancements and therapeutic benefits.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Genovus Biotechnologies Inc.Inventors: Kimberly S. Gangwish, Garret Moddel
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Patent number: 11793967Abstract: A system for thermal regulation of a nebulizer is provided that is structured to deliver a chilled mist to the snout, muzzle, beak, or trunk of an animal. The system includes a container to house a nebulizer and a thermal material together and a mask to deliver the chilled mist to an animal. The thermal material acts to chill a liquid located inside the nebulizer in order to deliver a chilled mist to the animal for therapeutic purposes, such as initiating therapeutic hypothermia, or treating various respiratory illnesses such as croup, laryngobronchitis, and smoke inhalation.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Satori Innovations, LLCInventors: Melissa K. Hoke-Kearns, Paula G. Sorbel, Justin P. Curran
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Patent number: 11793947Abstract: The invention relates to the field of inhalation devices for liquids. In particular, the invention relates to an improved seal construction for an inhalation device having a nebulizing nozzle and a piston which moves relative to a pumping chamber in order to generate pumping pressure and to an inhalation device comprising such seal.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SOFTHALE NVInventors: Frank Bartels, Jürgen Rawert
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Patent number: 11793951Abstract: The present invention provides a particulate delivery device with an automatic activation mechanism that pierces or cuts a composition capsule when a cap is removed. The cap cannot be replaced once the device is activated for use. The device allows for gas flow through the device from a gas inlet to a gas outlet through a composition receptacle and dispersion chamber to deliver particulate to the airway of a subject.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: DE MOTU CORDIS PTY LTDInventors: Brendan O'Flaherty, Johann Lipman, Patrick Joseph Lynch, John Fredatovich
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Patent number: 11793963Abstract: An ambulatory tube support and aligner for rapidly securing an endotracheal tube to an airway of a patient includes a support body, a fastener, and a compressible material. The support body has opposed inner and outer surfaces and includes a maxilla portion, a mandible portion, and two opposing end portions. The two opposing end portions individually connect the upper portion to the lower portion and define a perimeter of an opening. The opening is configured to overlay the mouth of the patient when the support body is secured to the patient. The fastener has a movable portion rotatively coupled to a fixed portion. A single rotation of the movable portion of the fastener causes the compressible material to secure the endotracheal tube at one end of the opening to provide an unobstructed view of the patient's mouth.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TUBETAMER, LLCInventor: Douglas Moriarty
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Patent number: 11793961Abstract: A temporary esophagus occlusion device for providing temporary occlusion of the esophagus during intubation of a in patient includes a frame configured to transition between a contracted state, in which it can be swallowed by the patient, and an expanded state, wherein in the expanded state, the frame has a maximum outer diameter sufficient to span an inner diameter of the esophagus of the patient. The device also includes a flexible cover connected to and extending over at least a portion of the frame when the frame is in the expanded state to at least partially block flow of fluid and/or solid materials through the esophagus and a guidewire attached to the frame, sized to be swallowed by the patient along with the frame and having a proximal end portion configured to remain external to the patient's body and a distal end connected to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, UPMCInventors: Youngjae Chun, Philip Charles Carullo
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Patent number: 11794042Abstract: The present invention relates to an individualized air filtration device including a generally inverted U-shaped nose ring and filter combination that fits partially within the nostrils of a user to prevent bacteria, microbes, particulate matter and viruses from entering the body through the user's nasal passages. The nose filtering device is preferably comprised of a nylon mesh material with an acetate fibrous material on at least the backside of the filter so that a hydrogen peroxide or other protective solution can be applied to the device before inserting the filter into the user's nostrils. The solution is preferably comprised of a hydrogen peroxide, but may also include a fragrance, medicine, therapeutic agent, camphor, eucalyptus oil, and a menthol.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventors: John Brady, Mike Ditro
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Patent number: 11786765Abstract: A cooling element (100) for use within a cooling device (600) of a closed-circuit respirator (690), includes a plate shaped cooling element housings (110, 120), each with a respective liquid-tight closure (112, 122) filled or to be filled with a coolant (211). The cooling element housings (110, 120) each have a plate outer wall (114, 124) and a plate inner wall (116, 126) arched in the direction of the plate outer wall, which form, together with additional side walls (115, 125), cooling element volumes (118, 128) for the coolant. The plate shape cooling housings can be fastened or are fastened to each other such that the one plate inner wall and another plate inner wall are located opposite each other and are arched away from one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaAInventor: Ugur Hayran
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Patent number: 11787519Abstract: The present invention provides an underwater breathing device. The device includes a canister having a pump installed therein, wherein air outside of the canister communicates with the interior of the canister via the pump; a mouthpiece; and an elongate tube interconnecting the interior of the canister and the mouthpiece. Methods of making and using the device are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Inventor: Zachary William Rupp
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Patent number: 11786682Abstract: An end-expiratory CO2 guided tracheal intubation apparatus includes: an intubation tube, an end-expiratory CO2 catheter, a suction tube, an airbag and an inflation tube. The end-expiratory CO2 catheter partially penetrates the sidewall of the intubation tube, one end of the end-expiratory CO2 catheter extends beyond an end of the intubation tube, and the other end is connected to an end-expiratory CO2 sensor, the suction tube partially penetrates a sidewall of the intubation tube, one end of the liquid suction tube extends beyond an end of the intubation tube, the other end is connected to an air pump, the airbag sleeves the outer wall of the intubation tube, the inflation tube partially penetrates the sidewall of the intubation tube, one end thereof is connected to the airbag, and the other end is connected to the air supply device.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of MedicineInventors: Hong Jiang, Ming Xia, Yu Sun, Jia Yan
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Patent number: 11779511Abstract: A massaging apparatus has a generally U-shaped housing with a central segment pivotably connected at a first end to a distal end of a first side segment and at a second end to a distal end of a second side segment. The segments are spring biased at their connections and the massaging apparatus includes rotatably mounted rollers that can spin when the apparatus is applied to a body part and a motor that vibrates when energized.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Conair LLCInventor: Yeung Shun Cheong