Patents Examined by Deanna K. Hall
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Patent number: 12042172Abstract: The medical implant delivery device comprises a handheld assembly and an obturator. The handheld assembly can include an elongated shaft defining a chamber having a distal end and a proximal end, and an imaging device secured within the chamber adjacent to the distal end. The imaging device can comprise a light source and a lens. The obturator can include an elongated member having a light transmitting member and a plunger, wherein the obturator may be slidably disposed in a first position such that at least a portion of the elongated member may be within the chamber and the light transmitting member may be optically coupled to the light source and the lens.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: VALENS RECOVERY SOLUTIONS LLCInventor: Allen L. Van Beek
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Patent number: 12042233Abstract: An apparatus such as a suction instrument includes a position sensor proximate to a distal tip of a malleable shaft. A sensor wire couples the position sensor to a processor of an image guided surgery system such that signals generated by the position sensor can be interpreted to determine the position of the surgical instrument. The malleable shaft includes a malleable outer shaft and a flexible inner tube. The flexible inner tube includes a primary lumen that can provide suction, fluid, or various deployable surgical tools, and an inner lumen that holds the sensor wire. Protected within the inner lumen, the sensor wire runs the length of the shaft and exits the inner lumen and passes through a slot in the outer shaft to reach the position sensor. A heat shrink cover wraps the distal tip, sealing the components together and providing an opening suitable for suction.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: ACCLARENT, INC.Inventors: Ehsan Shameli, Itzhak Fang, Babak Ebrahimi, Fatemeh Akbarian, Roozbeh Borjian
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Patent number: 12042638Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a safety mechanism for a medicament delivery device for mechanical shock absorption, which safety mechanism has a medicament delivery member sleeve, a housing having a proximal opening arranged to receive the medicament delivery member sleeve, wherein the medicament delivery member sleeve is axially displaceable inside the housing, between an extended position in which a proximal end portion of the medicament delivery member sleeve extends proximally from the housing and a retracted position in which the proximal end portion is received by the housing, wherein the proximal end portion has a resilient structure, enabling compression of the proximal end portion in the distal direction upon impact of an axial force greater than a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: SHL Medical AGInventor: Stephan Olson
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Patent number: 12036035Abstract: Disclosed are systems, devices and methods for estimating blood glucose parameters, including blood glucose concentration glucose sensor signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: David A. Gough, Shaghayegh Abbasi, Stefanie Heinz
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Patent number: 12029871Abstract: The present invention relates to a nasal catheter with a guide wall, and more particularly, to a nasal catheter with a guide wall, the nasal catheter including a tube main body which is connected to one end of each shaft of a device spraying a medicinal fluid or irrigation fluid and an aspiration device performing aspiration inside a nasal cavity and which is inserted into the nasal cavity and a guide wall portion which is configured to form a slope at one side of an inner portion of a front end portion of the tube main body to allow the medicinal fluid or irrigation fluid to be sprayed in an eccentric direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2024Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Inventor: Young Jin Baek
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Patent number: 12020797Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for controlling physiological glucose concentrations in a patient.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Ypsomed AGInventor: Ahmad Mohamad Haidar
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Patent number: 12017044Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves determining a current value for a physiological condition of the user influenced by the fluid violates a first threshold value, determining a predicted value for the physiological condition of the user violates a second threshold value, and automatically altering operation of the infusion device to modify delivery of the fluid to the user after determining the predicted value violates the second threshold value when the current value violates the first threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.Inventors: Cesar C. Palerm, Louis J. Lintereur, Salman Monirabbasi, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Lane Desborough
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Patent number: 12011576Abstract: An autoinjector includes a case, a needle shroud telescopically coupled to the case, a carrier slidably arranged in the case, a collar rotatably and slidably disposed in the case and coupled to the needle shroud and the carrier, and a trigger button operably coupled to the carrier. The case includes a rib. The needle shroud is movable between a first extended position, a retracted position, and a locked second extended position. The carrier is adapted to hold a medicament container and movable from a first axial position to a second axial position relative to the case. The carrier abuts the rib in the first axial position and the needle shroud is in the first extended position and disengages the rib when the needle shroud is in the retracted position and the trigger button is pressed to advance the carrier to the second axial position.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventor: Thomas Kemp
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Patent number: 12005203Abstract: An articulating shaft for a steerable catheter system includes a tubular body and a plurality of wire support elements integrally formed from a single piece with the tubular body. The tubular body has a longitudinal central axis and a sealed lumen with a distal opening and a proximal opening. The wire support elements support an actuating wire. Each of the wire support elements has a feed-through opening receiving the actuating wire. A pair of adjacent wire support elements are separated from each other in an axial direction by a slot.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Creganna Unlimited CompanyInventors: Damian Muldoon, Bernard McDermott
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Patent number: 12005264Abstract: Disclosed is a skin care device using plasma. The skin care device may include a first plasma generating device; and a main body configured to supply power to the first plasma generating device and to control the first plasma generating device based on an input from a user.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: GCS Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang Sik Kim, Tae Yong Kim, Myeong Woo Kim, Hyuk Namgoong, Ha Yun Lee
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Patent number: 12004997Abstract: A method is provided for treating a gland or duct of a patient. In a particular embodiment, an obstruction in a gland or duct and the orifice thereof can be alleviated; in another, a substance can be injected thereinto; in yet another, the gland can be aspirated. The method includes the step of inserting an elongated probe into a gland or duct via an orifice thereinto. In some embodiments the probe can have a longitudinal lumen therethrough, with at least one distal hole through the probe wall in fluid communication with the lumen. The lumen can be used in concert with a source of suction for removing debris from the gland or duct, and/or with a source of a fluid and pumping means, for injecting a substance into the gland or duct.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: MGD Innovations, Inc.Inventor: Steven L. Maskin
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Patent number: 12002560Abstract: A fluid injector system has a controller for operably controlling the injection of contrast and/or saline into a patient. The controller allows a user to program a diagnostic injection procedure having one or more phases according to which the contrast and/or saline will be injected into the patient so as to effect enhancement of a region thereof during an imaging procedure. It further allows the user to program a test injection procedure to be performed prior to the diagnostic injection procedure. The test injection procedure is implementable as: (a) a variable single phase test injection in which the rate at which the saline is to be delivered is selectable prior to and may be varied during performance thereof; and/or (b) a multi-phase test injection in which the rate at which the saline is to be delivered is selectable for each phase of the multi-phase test injection prior to performance thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Corey Kemper, John Volkar, Michael Brooks, Leona Mulcahy
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Patent number: 11998234Abstract: A percutaneous introducer, particularly for flexible drainage tubes and with various profiles, includes a main body, the main body having a longitudinally extended tubular element arranged in the distal portion of the main body. The tubular element has a terminal arranged at the distal end of the tubular element. The percutaneous introducer has a sliding body which includes a longitudinally extended obturator arranged in the distal portion of the sliding body, the obturator being inserted and being movable longitudinally within the tubular element of the main body. The obturator includes a cutting blade arranged and fixed at the distal end of the obturator. The percutaneous introducer includes a return and positioning spring adapted to return the cutting blade to a retracted position within its seat, following the controlled exit of the cutting blade through a passage slot arranged in the terminal of the tubular element.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: REDAX S.P.A.Inventor: Lucio Gibertoni
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Patent number: 11992663Abstract: An autoinjector comprises a housing, a product container, a displaceable needle protection sleeve, a plunger rod displaceable by a preloaded discharge spring, a dose setting element with at least two different rotational positions relative to the housing, and a dosing sleeve. The dosing sleeve or the plunger rod has a dose selection stop, and the other has at least one dosing stop. By rotating the dose setting element, the dosing sleeve or the plunger rod is rotated relative to the other. Upon displacement of the needle protection sleeve, the spring displaces the plunger rod, whereby, if the dose setting element is in the first rotational position, the dose selection stop and the first dosing stop strikes against each other, and, if the dose setting element is in the second rotational position, one of the dose selection stop and the first dosing stop is or can be moved past the other.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Ypsomed AGInventors: Markus Tschirren, Christian Schrul, Jürg Hirschel
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Patent number: 11992659Abstract: A drug delivery system is disclosed that includes a drug delivery device having a reservoir, a delivery cannula having a proximal end in fluid communication with the reservoir and a distal end to be received within a patient, and one or more controllable elements. The drug delivery system may further include one or more sensors coupled to the drug delivery device, and a controller coupled to the one or more sensors and the one or more controllable elements. The controller may be configured to use the one or more sensors to determine a condition or an operational state of the drug delivery device. Furthermore, the controller may be configured to control the controllable element based on the condition or the operational state of the drug delivery device and/or identity information stored in a memory onboard the device. A method for use with a drug delivery device is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: AMGEN INC.Inventors: Adam B. McCullough, Ferry Tamtoro, Huaying Yang, Mark Ka Lai Lee, Desheng Yin, Scott R. Gibson, Donald Busby, Peter V. Shultz, Keith P. Kogler, Basel Hasan Taha, Jimmie L. Ward, Christopher R. Folk, Steven William Badelt
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Patent number: 11986317Abstract: The present invention is directed to a device and method for monitoring and assessment of movement disorder symptoms. The device and method disclosed herein are particularly amenable to remote monitoring of a subject's movement disorder symptoms. Briefly stated, in certain preferred embodiments of the present invention the movement disorder monitoring device accompanies a subject to a remote location where the device is used to record data relating to the severity of a subject's movement disorder symptoms over a period of time. This data is then subsequently used by physicians or other clinicians in optimizing and assessing treatment options directed at alleviating a subject's movement disorder symptoms. The method and device of the present invention can be used to monitor symptoms of a number of movement disorders including but not limited to dystonia, essential tremor, Huntington's disease, various ataxias, multiple sclerosis, psychogenic tremor, and Parkinson's disease.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Great Lakes Neuro Technologies Inc.Inventors: Dustin A. Heldman, Joseph P. Giuffrida, Thomas O. Mera
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Patent number: 11986638Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a safety mechanism for a medicament delivery device for mechanical shock absorption, which safety mechanism has a medicament delivery member sleeve, a housing having a proximal opening arranged to receive the medicament delivery member sleeve, wherein the medicament delivery member sleeve is axially displaceable inside the housing, between an extended position in which a proximal end portion of the medicament delivery member sleeve extends proximally from the housing and a retracted position in which the proximal end portion is received by the housing, wherein the proximal end portion has a resilient structure, enabling compression of the proximal end portion in the distal direction upon impact of an axial force greater than a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: SHL Medical AGInventor: Stephan Olson
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Patent number: 11980740Abstract: An insertion device to assist in accessing an access port that has been subcutaneously implanted in the body of a patient is disclosed. The implanted access port is accessed by a needle of a needle assembly, such as a needle-based infusion set. The insertion device may include a body having a stabilizing portion and a guide portion. The stabilizing portion stabilizes a position of the implanted access port when the body is placed on the skin of the patient atop the implanted access port. The guide portion is designed to guide a needle of the needle assembly along a predetermined path such that the needle transcutaneously pierces a septum of the implanted access port.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Glade H. Howell, Bradley J. VanderStek, Jeremy B. Cox, Laurie M. Whetstone, Manikantan Shanmugham, Jason R. Stats, Kenneth W. Sykes
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Patent number: 11980722Abstract: Described herein are devices, methods and kits for assessing and/or enhancing the accessibility of a subvalvular space of a heart, accessing the subvalvular space of the heart (e.g., to provide access for one or more other devices), and/or positioning one or more devices in the subvalvular space of the heart. The devices described herein may, for example, comprise catheters that may be used to manipulate one or more chordae tendineae, diagnostic catheters having different sizes and/or shapes (e.g., different curvatures), guide catheters having different sizes and/or shapes (e.g., different curvatures), and visualization catheters. In some variations, the devices, methods, and/or kits may be used to visualize a target site, such as a subannular groove of a heart valve. In certain variations, the devices, methods, and/or kits may be used to manipulate chordae tendineae to provide additional space in a ventricle of a heart (e.g., enhancing the accessibility of the ventricle).Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Ancora Heart, Inc.Inventor: Mariel Fabro
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Patent number: 11975177Abstract: An injection device and method are shown. Devices and methods include a forceps and a needle advancement mechanism to clamp a portion of tissue and control a depth of penetration of the needle between gripping ends of the forceps. An injection device and method are shown where selected components of the injection device such as a syringe and forceps are disposable, while the remaining portions of the injection device are reusable. Devices and methods are shown that utilize micro-needles to control a depth of penetration.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Inventor: Edwin Ryan