Patents Examined by Imani N Hayman
  • Patent number: 11968808
    Abstract: A computing device includes a bezel and an enclosure. The bezel includes a heater apparatus. The enclosure includes a plurality of hardware components, and the bezel is affixed to a frontside of the enclosure and configured to heat at least a volume of air entering the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Michael Tunks, Ayedin Nikazm, Richard Mark Eiland, Tyler Baxter Duncan
  • Patent number: 11968807
    Abstract: A computing device includes a bezel and an enclosure. The bezel includes an air circulation component and a heater apparatus. The enclosure includes a plurality of hardware components, and the bezel is affixed to a frontside of the enclosure and configured to heat an internal volume of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Michael Tunks, Ayedin Nikazm, Richard Mark Eiland, Tyler Baxter Duncan
  • Patent number: 11963323
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and a method for controlling the same. The display device includes a flexible display screen and a control structure configured to control the flexible display screen to assume a folded state or an unfolded state. The control structure includes a guide rail assembly including guide rails. Two adjacent guide rails of the guide rails are slidably connected to each other, and the flexible display screen is unfolded along a first direction and folded along a second direction. A sliding direction of each of the guide rails is the same as the first direction or the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaoyin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11934231
    Abstract: A housing of a device comprises a screw boss that extends outwardly from a first base plate proximate to a corner of the housing. Additionally, the housing of the device includes a force dissipation member. The force dissipation member includes a central portion that is sized to detachably attach around the screw boss. The force dissipation member further includes at least two arms that extend outwardly from the central portion, wherein each arm of the at least two arms is attached to a different side of the two walls of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Blake Edmund Dunbar, Dwight Linwood Franz, Ralph Chen, Yang Zhang, Robert Pierce, Mark Tentler, Sean Philip Kearney, Mark Howe, Kevin Sharpe, Paul Morris, Doyle Davis
  • Patent number: 11921549
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device. A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a display module; a support frame disposed at the rear of the display module; and a hinge module hingedly connecting the display module to the support frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dohyeon Kim, Brian Chung, Sangdon Park, Yongnam Park, Dongha Yang, Jinha Heo
  • Patent number: 11812567
    Abstract: A handle assembly may include a base, a handle rotably coupled to the base via a hinge, the handle comprising a lock integral to the handle and mechanically coupled to a remainder of the handle via a spring having a spring force that biases the lock in a locked position relative to the handle. The base may include a mechanical retention feature for receiving and mechanically retaining an information handling resource. The base may also include one or more features configured to, as the handle is translated into a closed position relative to the base, mechanically engage with the lock to overcome the spring force that biases the lock in a locked position and allows the lock to return to the locked position in order to maintain the handle in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Eduardo Escamilla, Sean P. O'Donnell, John Donachy, Juan M. Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 10806843
    Abstract: A method for operating a dialysis machine to conduct a dialysis treatment on a patient (e.g., a peritoneal dialysis machine) may include transferring dialysate from a first bag, and automatically determining the dialysate from the first bag has completely transferred. After determining the dialysate has completely transferred from the first bag, switching from the first bag to a second bag of dialysate. The method may further include transferring dialysate from the second bag in response to the detection of the completed transfer of the first bag, and automatically determining the dialysate from the second bag has completely transferred. The method may further include determining if the respective first or second bag has completely transferred by comparing a dialysate bag volume transferred to the patient to a detected volume of the respective first or second bag. Systems with dialysis machines for performing such a method are disclosed as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Holding, Inc.
    Inventors: Kulwinder S. Plahey, John A. Biewer
  • Patent number: 10799647
    Abstract: The invention relates to an autoinjector for dispensing a liquid product, in particular a highly viscous medication, comprising: a housing, a product container, which is arranged in the housing and has a slidable piston, wherein the piston can be slid in a dispensing direction in order to dispense the product contained in the product container, a forward drive element, which acts on the piston as the product is being dispensed, a first spring, which is preloaded such that the product can be dispensed from the product container by the sliding of the forward drive element and the piston, and a rotation element, which is operatively coupled to the forward drive element, wherein the first spring acts on the rotation element in such a way that the rotation element is set into rotation in order to dispense the product, wherein the rotation element or the forward drive element has a thread having a variable pitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Ypsomed AG
    Inventors: Patrick Hostettler, Markus Tschirren
  • Patent number: 10786628
    Abstract: The present invention provides a piston washer (1, 51) for a drug delivery device, the piston washer (1, 51) comprising a central portion (2, 72) arranged about a centre axis, a peripheral portion (3, 73), and an axially pliable structure (8, 78) connecting the central portion (2, 72) and the peripheral portion (3, 73). The axially pliable structure (8, 78) is preconfigured to undergo permanent deformation in response to a difference between a first resultant force acting on the peripheral portion (3, 73) and a second resultant force acting on the central portion (2, 72) exceeding a threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventor: Nikolaj Eusebius Jacobsen
  • Patent number: 10780257
    Abstract: A method of treating a patient using a power-injectable access port, including implanting the power-injectable access port in the patient, imaging the power-injectable access port following implanting, and power injecting a fluid into the patient through the power-injectable access port. The power-injectable access port includes a septum covering a reservoir, the septum including a radiopaque material forming at least one letter, the at least one letter indicating that the power-injectable access port is suitable for power injection. The power-injectable access port is designed to accommodate a pressure developed within the reservoir of at least 35 psi, and a fluid flow rate of at least 1 milliliter per second. Imaging the power-injectable access port produces an image, and the method includes identifying the at least one letter on the image to confirm that the power-injectable access port is suitable for power injecting a fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly B. Powers, Jim C. Beasley, Guy T. Rome
  • Patent number: 10758666
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods related to improved otorhinologic irrigation and lavage comprising a drainage collector and one or more otorhinologic adapters, which are capable of coupling to an irrigation-liquid container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Inventor: Joseph P. Schultz
  • Patent number: 10758254
    Abstract: A method may include delivering a first catheter to a location within an arterial vasculature of a subject. The location may include at least one of an internal carotid artery of the subject or a junction between an ophthalmic artery of the subject and the internal carotid artery of the subject. The method also may include moving a second catheter relative to the first catheter so as to reorient a direction of a distal opening of the second catheter, the second catheter being connected to the first catheter at a joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: J.D. Franco & Co., LLC
    Inventors: Robert Vidlund, Michael Calhoun, Jeff Franco
  • Patent number: 10758672
    Abstract: The subject technology is embodied in a method for predicting a delivery rate of a plurality of drugs dispensed by multiple infusion pumps at a delivery point. The method includes receiving one or more operating parameters related to multiple drug pumps and a carrier fluid pump, wherein each of the drug pumps dispenses a drug, and the carrier fluid pump dispenses a carrier fluid. The method also includes determining a delivery rate of a first drug at the delivery point. This can be done by predicting time variation of a concentration of the first drug at the delivery point based on a mathematical model of a mixed flow through a fluid path that terminates at the delivery point. The mixed flow includes the drugs and the carrier fluid. The model includes the operating parameters and a plurality of flow-parameters related to the mathematical model of the mixed flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Peterfreund, Michael Parker, Mark A. Lovich, Nathaniel M. Sims
  • Patent number: 10751508
    Abstract: A peripheral catheter having a catheter tip diffuser for reducing an exit velocity of an infusant within the catheter. Pluralities of diffusion side holes are provided on the tip portion of the catheter. Some examples further include pluralities of annularly arranged, staggered diffusion holes provided on the tip portion of an intravenous catheter to streamline infusant issued from the diffusion holes. An inner surface of each diffusion hole is further angled relative to the inner surface of the catheter lumen such that an infusant within the lumen exits the catheter though the diffusion holes at an angle less than 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Austin Jason McKinnon, Jeff O'Bryan, Chad M. Adams
  • Patent number: 10744070
    Abstract: A gastrointestinal administration device comprising an elongated tube or track, an anchor and a channel, which allows the proximal end of the tube or track to be wholly secured inside the mouth from where it passes down the lateral oropharynx to the desired site in the gastrointestinal tract. This system may be used to administer nutrients, fluids, medications, nutraceuticals, dietary supplements and/or non-nutrient gastrointestinal stimulants or other therapies directly to a desired site in the gastrointestinal tract in humans and animals for a variety of purposes including novel applications such as weight and glucose control, local administration of medication and storage of a deposit of a therapeutic agent. It may also be used for monitoring of processes inside the gastrointestinal tract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Inventors: Elizabeth Demetriades, Philong Pham, Behrokh Khoshnevis, Hongsheng Tong
  • Patent number: 10736656
    Abstract: An intravascular catheter for peri-vascular or peri-urethral tissue ablation includes multiple needles advanced through supported guide tubes which expand around a central axis to engage the interior surface of the wall of the renal artery or other vessel of a human body allowing the injection an ablative fluid for ablating tissue, or nerve fibers in the outer layer or deep to the outer layer of the vessel, or in prostatic tissue. A method can involve injection/infusion of the ablative fluid over an extended time period of at least 10 seconds or with two injections at two different penetration depths to reduce or eliminate patient pain during ablation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Ablative Solutions
    Inventors: David R. Fischell, Tim A. Fischell, Robert Ryan Ragland, Darrin James Kent, Andy Edward Denison, Eric Thomas Johnson, Jeff Alan Burke, Christopher Scott Hayden, Robert E. Fischell
  • Patent number: 10737058
    Abstract: A dispensing device to deliver a multiple component material to a location in vivo, the device including a manifold having proximal and distal ends and multiple separate lumens within it, connectable on its proximal end to multiple syringes for containing the multiple component material, a distal tip assembly including a tip connector having separate side-by-side lumens within the tip connector and optionally a dispensing tip, and multiple flexible side-by-side cannulae, each having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal ends of the cannulae each connected to a separate lumen at the distal end of the manifold, and the distal ends of the cannulae each connected to one of the side-by-side lumens of the tip connector, establishing a fluid communication between the manifold and the distal tip assembly, wherein the side-by-side cannulae are optionally partially connected along their length and are split at their proximal and distal ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: James T. Spivey, Michael J. Trezza, II, John Goodman, Michael J. Vendely, Michael E. Setser
  • Patent number: 10736776
    Abstract: Ocular surgery may be performed by a variety of systems, processes, and techniques. In certain implementations, systems and processes for ocular surgery may include the ability to emulsify a lens in an eye using a modular hand-held system including a phacoemulsification unit detachably coupled to a pump unit and remove lens portions from the eye using suction provided by the pump unit. The system and the process may also include the ability to decouple the phacoemulsification unit from the pump unit, couple an irrigation-aspiration unit to the pump unit to form a second hand-held system, and remove material from the eye using suction provided by the pump unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Robert Sussman, John Morgan Bourne, John Richard Carpenter
  • Patent number: 10722696
    Abstract: A nano-scale device and method of manufacturing and use. The nano-scale device may be used in-vivo and may comprise a fluid path with an inlet microchannel, an outlet microchannel, and a nanochannel. The fluid path comprises a bio-robust material. In certain embodiments, the bio-robust material may be coated over a material that is not bio-robust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: NANOMEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Randy Goodall, Sharath Hosali
  • Patent number: 10709834
    Abstract: Disclosed is a medical device component for delivering medication fluid to a patient. The medical device component includes a fluid infusion device to regulate delivery of medication fluid, a body-mountable base unit, and a top cover assembly that is removably couplable to the base unit and to the fluid infusion device. The base unit includes a cannula to deliver medication fluid under the control of the fluid infusion device, and a physiological analyte sensor to measure a physiological characteristic. The base unit also includes an electronics assembly electrically connected to sensor leads to obtain measurements in the analog domain, to convert measurements into digital sensor data, and to communicate conditioned digital sensor data to the fluid infusion device. The top cover assembly is configured to provide both fluid and electrical connections for the base unit, by way of an infusion tube having sensor conductors integrated therein or otherwise associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Chiu, Peter Schultz, Gayane R. Voskanyan, Hsifu Wang, Rebecca K. Gottlieb, Kenneth D. Warnock, Ricardo Juarez Martinez