Patents Examined by Courtney B Fredrickson
  • Patent number: 12370369
    Abstract: Esophageal intubation assemblies, esophageal cardiac stimulation and gastric decompression assemblies, and methods for using and making the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ENDEAVOR MED INC.
    Inventors: Imran Ahmed Faruqi, Bandula Wijay
  • Patent number: 12357762
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a metering mechanism for an injection device. The mechanism comprises an actuating element for setting or discharging a dose from the injection device, a piston rod for producing an advance movement for dispensing a dose, a piston rod sleeve in which the piston rod is accommodated such that the piston rod can be non-rotatably connected to the piston rod sleeve, and a coupling element with which the actuating element and the piston rod sleeve can be coupled for discharge of the dose set with the actuating element. To prevent underdosage, the piston rod comprises a stop and the coupling element comprises a counter-stop which move relative to each other at least during setting of a dose and which abut each other in a maximum dose stop position, thereby preventing further setting of a dose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Dahmen, Hannes Obex
  • Patent number: 12343042
    Abstract: A pericardial puncture device includes an introducer, a needle, and an actuator. The introducer has a lumen and extends between an introducer proximal portion defining an introducer proximal end and an introducer distal portion defining an introducer distal end. The needle is received in the lumen and extends between a needle proximal portion and a needle distal portion having a sharp distal tip. The needle is movable from a retracted configuration to an advanced configuration. In the retracted configuration, the sharp distal tip is within the lumen and shy of the introducer distal end. In the advanced configuration, the sharp distal tip outside of the lumen and proud of the introducer distal end. The actuator includes a handle that is rotatable in a first direction with respect to the introducer to drive movement of the needle from the retracted configuration towards the advanced configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited
    Inventors: Brock Miller, Matthew Gravett, Kai-Lon Fok
  • Patent number: 12337153
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a monitoring device (10) arranged to be operably connected to a medicament delivery device (12), said medicament delivery device (12) comprising a manually operated movable dose activation element (20), said monitoring device (10) comprising an electronic circuit (42), said electronic circuit (42) comprising an optical sensor (68), wherein said optical sensor (68) is positioned in relation to said dose activation element (20) so as to detect a manual operation of said dose activation element (20) from an initial position; said electronics circuit further comprising a vibration sensor (70), wherein said vibration sensor (70) is positioned in relation to said medicament delivery device so as to detect specific vibration spectra produced by the medicament delivery device when said dose activating element (20) is operated, wherein said electronic circuit (42) comprises computing elements capable of correlating the information from the optical sensor (68) with the information from
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: SHL Medical AG
    Inventor: William Cirillo
  • Patent number: 12329924
    Abstract: A device for connection to a medical connector, the device includes a cap having an annular wall having an exterior wall surface and an interior wall surface including a plurality of inwardly extending protrusions sized and shaped to frictionally engage a male luer, and a peelable seal. The cap configured to define a chamber to contain an absorbent material and disinfectant or antimicrobial agent. The cap includes one or more threads adapted to engage with a female luer connector. The cap is adapted to engage a male luer connector in a press-fit connection. The peelable seal prevents the disinfectant or the antimicrobial agent from exiting the chamber. Also described are methods of disinfecting a medical connector, and apparatuses comprising a device for disinfecting a medical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Chang Jiang, Nichola Charles
  • Patent number: 12318516
    Abstract: A breast pump system comprises at least one wearable milk collection hub connected via an air line to a combined external air pump and control unit. Each milk collection hub comprises: (a) a breast shield made up of a breast flange and a nipple tunnel; (b) a flexible diaphragm that is configured to prevent milk from reaching the external air pump; (c) an outer shell that is configured to removably attach to the breast shield, such that, when attached, the breast shield and outer shell form a vessel for collecting milk; and (d) a diaphragm cap that is configured to be secured over the diaphragm, forms part of the front face of the outer shell, and includes a port connected to the air line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Chiaro Technology Limited
    Inventors: Thibault De Becdelievre, Oliver Blanchard, Georgia Thomas, Daniel John Thompson, Adam Rollo, Paul Reid, Jonathan O'Toole, Jack Biltcliffe, Clare Larkspur, Claudia Bruen
  • Patent number: 12318582
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medicament delivery device comprising a housing, a needle, a needle cover, a needle cover biasing member, a drive mechanism, and a needle cover extension mechanism. The needle cover is axially movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The needle cover biasing member is configured to bias the needle cover axially in the distal direction towards the extended position. The needle cover extension mechanism comprises a second biasing member and a release element. The second biasing member is configured to bias the needle cover into its extended position post-use of the device. The release element has a first state configured to prevent the second biasing member from biasing the needle cover into the extended position and a second state configured to allow the second biasing member to bias the needle cover into the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Genzyme Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Denyer, James Bradford, Alexander Hee-Hanson, Robert Wilson, Dean Twite, Thomas Lever
  • Patent number: 12318556
    Abstract: Cut-pattern designs creating a frame structure from a solid tube, which may be used as a portion of medical device, such as a catheter. The tube includes a plurality of units of cutout segments which are distributed in a band around a circumference of the tube. A tube can have multiple different zones, each having units with varying cutout segments. The cutout segments can have varying cutout surface area allowing the flexibility of the tube to be modified at any point along the tube by altering the cutout surface area with zones having greater cutout surface areas as compared to another zone are more flexible. The tube can be incorporated into a catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: ORBUSNEICH MEDICAL PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Robert J. Cottone
  • Patent number: 12280186
    Abstract: The invention is a wearable breast pump system including a housing shaped at least in part to fit inside a bra and a piezo air-pump. The piezo air-pump is fitted in the housing and forms part of a closed loop system that drives a separate, deformable diaphragm to generate negative air pressure. The diaphragm is removably mounted on a breast shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Chiaro Technology Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan O'Toole, Adam Rollo, Andrew Carr
  • Patent number: 12280187
    Abstract: A breast pump includes a main body and a breast milk suctioning shield. The main body has an accommodation space. The breast milk suctioning shield is assembled in the accommodation space and detachably connected to the main body. A front end of the breast milk suctioning shield has a breast shielding portion, and a nipple passage extends from a rear end of a center portion of the breast shielding portion. One or more deformable members are assembled with an annular connection portion between the breast shielding portion and the nipple passage, and the deformable member is controlled to be inflated or deflated by a first air pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: MICROJET TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao-Jan Mou, Ching-Sung Lin, Chih-Kai Chen, Wen-Yang Yang, Yung-Lung Han, Chi-Feng Huang
  • Patent number: 12274818
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a baby bottle (2) and a bottle top attachment (4) coupled to the baby bottle (2) and having a connector (6) for a breast pump. The apparatus is characterized in that the bottle top attachment (4) includes a measuring head (8) with a reservoir (10) for breast milk and in that the measuring head (8) includes a sensor unit that is associated with the volume of the reservoir (10) and that enables determining a parameter of the milk expressed into the baby bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MEDELA HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Martin Thüring, Armin Felber, Mario Rigert
  • Patent number: 12274864
    Abstract: An injector comprising an outer housing, a generally longitudinally extending keyway formed in the outer housing, an inner housing located interiorly of the outer housing, a guide member mounted at one end of the inner housing, the guide member having at least one protrusion adapted to engage the keyway, a spring member, the spring member having a first end abutting the outer housing, a second end of the spring member abutting the guide member, a syringe mounted interiorly of the inner housing, a needle mounted on one end of the syringe, the syringe having a plunger and a plunger rod, a finger rest member mounted over the outer housing, the finger rest member being opaque to thereby prevent visual access to the keyway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: DUOJECT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Simon Hamel, Marie Lafontaine Lacasse
  • Patent number: 12268841
    Abstract: A fluid connector assembly. The fluid connector assembly includes a tab portion including a slot; a plug portion slidably connected to the tab portion the plug portion comprising a fluid path and a disc, the disc configured to seat within the slot; a catch feature located on a first end of the tab portion and configured to interact with a reservoir; and a latching feature located on a second end of the tab portion, the latching feature configured to interact and lock onto the reservoir, wherein force applied to the plug portion may overcome a threshold force and unseat the disc from the slot wherein the plug portion moves with respect to the tab portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: Kevin L. Grant, Jason A. Demers, Brian D. Tracey, Dean Kamen, Richard J. Lanigan, Gregory R. Lanier, Jr., Bright C. K. Foo, Lisa A. Panneton, Thomas F. Soldau, Stephen L. Fichera, David D. B. Cannan
  • Patent number: 12268840
    Abstract: Provided is a system for dispensing fluid. The system includes a housing defining a chamber; an inflatable bag disposed in the chamber and adapted to contain a fluid, the bag being in fluid communication with a flow path for flow of the fluid out of the bag; and a pressure source for inflating the bag to force the fluid from the bag to the flow path at a controlled rate. The bag inflates against an inner surface of the housing such that, prior to the bag being fully inflated, the fluid contained in the bag is forced from the bag at the controlled rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Proportion-Air, Inc
    Inventor: Daniel E. Cook
  • Patent number: 12246157
    Abstract: A needleless access connector may include a body, which may include a proximal end configured to couple to an instrument delivery device and a distal end configured to couple to a peripheral intravenous catheter assembly. The needleless access connector may also include an accordion valve disposed within the body between the proximal end and the distal end. The accordion valve may include an accordion portion. In response to compression of the accordion portion and opening of the accordion valve, a straight pathway extending through the proximal end and the distal end may be exposed such that an instrument of the instrument delivery device may move distally from the proximal end to the distal end through the straight pathway without bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Heena Dani, Megan Scherich, Derek Jewell
  • Patent number: 12239828
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an attachment mechanism suitable for attaching a module to an object, e.g. to a portion of a drug delivery device. Further, the disclosure is directed to an electronic system, e.g. an electronic add-on module, which is configured to be, e.g. releasably, attached to a drug delivery device as well as an assembly including the electronic add-on module as well as the drug delivery device. The attachment mechanism may include at least one attachment member with a longitudinal axis, an adhesive distal end surface and an opposite adhesive proximal end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventors: Paul Richard Draper, Aidan Michael O'Hare, Robert Frederick Veasey, Andrew Wallace
  • Patent number: 12226618
    Abstract: A drive train for a wind-up injection device, comprises a torsional energy storage adapted to be loaded or unloaded by a rotatable element, a rotatable user handle coupled with a button, a rotationally drivable expelling mechanism, and a clutch element coupled with the torsional energy storage via the rotatable element and comprising a ratchet for maintaining the rotatable element at one of a number of discrete angular positions, wherein via the rotatable element, the clutch element is adapted to transmit a torque from the user handle to the torsional energy storage or from the torsional energy storage to the expelling mechanism, and wherein the ratchet is switchable from one position to an adjacent position by a torque transmitted from the user handle to the torsional energy storage, and wherein the drive train is adapted to dampen torque peaks by a flexible impact portion in the area of the clutch element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SANOFI
    Inventors: Michael Jugl, Matthew Meredith Jones, Axel Teucher, Stefan Blancke, Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher
  • Patent number: 12226272
    Abstract: An oral irrigator system having an ergonomic casing with a pliable nozzle assembly, and coupled to a detachable and refillable fluid reservoir. The ergonomic casing contains a power source and a pump mechanism. The detachable nozzle head delivers a pulsating jet of fluid with adjustable speed into the oropharyngeal cavity. When the system is turned on, the rechargeable battery activates the diaphragm pump to draw fluid from the reservoir using a fluid pipe and delivers the fluid to the tip of the nozzle head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Arash Kheradvar, Hamid R. Djalilian
  • Patent number: 12228564
    Abstract: An apparatus used in analyzing spent dialysate includes at least a first surface configured to accommodate a dialysate drain bag in a first predetermined position, and at least a second surface configured to accommodate a dialysate analysis device in a second predetermined position, such that when the dialysate drain bag is in the first predetermined position and the dialysate analysis device is in the second predetermined position, a light sensor of the dialysate analysis device is positioned to sense light passing through the dialysate drain bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Kotanko, Xia Tao, Mia G. Garbaccio, Stephan Thijssen, Nadja Grobe, Leticia M. Tapia Silva
  • Patent number: 12220509
    Abstract: A device for monitoring and/or modifying a peritoneal dialysis treatment, including: a memory which stores at least one treatment protocol; a control circuitry connected to the memory, wherein said control circuitry generates a report and/or modifies the treatment if an outcome of the treatment is not a desired outcome of the treatment protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: LIBERDI LTD.
    Inventors: Hezkiah Tsoory, Shahar Harari