Patents Examined by Joseph D Boecker
  • Patent number: 12292085
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for delivering a flow of gas having a controller, a housing defining a gasflow passage, a motor with an impeller to deliver gas through the gasflow passage, and a flexible printed circuit electrically connected to the motor for electrically connecting the motor to the controller. There is also provided an apparatus for delivering a flow of gas having a housing defining a gasflow passage. The gas flowing through the gasflow passage is a high concentration oxygen gas. The apparatus has a motor with windings and an impeller to deliver gas through the gasflow passage, and an elastomeric shield to pneumatically isolate the windings from the gasflow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthare Limited
    Inventors: Philip John Dickinson, Hayk Noobar Antranik Yaghobian, Richard Daniel Panara
  • Patent number: 12290637
    Abstract: A gas therapy system (1) has a flow line (3, 2), a coupler (6) to a gas source, and an aerosol generator (4) for aerosol delivery, and a patient interface such as a nasal interface (2). A controller (10) is configured to modulate gas flow and aerosol delivery in real time. The controller changes gas flow rate and dynamically reduces aerosol delivery during upper gas flow rates such as 60 LPM, and activates aerosol delivery during lower gas flow rates of for example 10 LPM. The control may also include sensors to detect breathing, so that there is a bias towards increased aerosol delivery during inhalation in addition to during lower level gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: STAMFORD DEVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Ronan MacLoughlin, Shaun Porter, Conor Duffy, John Power
  • Patent number: 12285562
    Abstract: A cushion for a respiratory mask is provided. The cushion includes a face contacting portion, a non-face contacting portion and an intermediate region. The face contacting portion is formed from an open cell foam material and includes an opening to provide, in use, a source of breathing gas to a user's airways. The non-face contacting portion is formed from an elastomeric material. The intermediate region is formed between the face contacting portion and the non-face contacting portion. Open cells of the open cell foam material in the intermediate region are filled with the elastomeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE LIMITED
    Inventors: Melissa Catherine Bornholdt, Bruce Michael Walls
  • Patent number: 12285766
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include a protective mask to be worn over a nose and mouth of a wearer to protect the wearer from hazards in surrounding ambient air. The mask includes a mask portion, an airway, and an ionization filter. The mask portion includes an interior that extends over the nose and mouth of the wearer. The airway extends between the interior of the mask portion and the surrounding ambient air. The ionization filter includes an emitter within a portion of the airway, and a collector plate radially encompassing the emitter and defining at least a portion of the airway. The collector plate is electrically connected to at least first and second conductive porous filters. The first and second conductive porous filters and the collector plate collectively form at least a portion of a Faraday cage that encapsulates the emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Inventor: Julian Henley
  • Patent number: 12280210
    Abstract: A bite device is configured to be placed in the mouth (92) of a patient, facilitates insertion of soft tubes (91) from the outside into the mouth (92) of the patient, and includes a bite member (2) and an auxiliary member (3). The bite member (2) includes an abutment portion (21), a biting portion (216) extending outwardly from one side of the abutment portion (21), a sleeve portion (22) opposite to the biting portion (216), and a central hole (23) for insertion of one soft tube (91) therethrough. The auxiliary member (3) includes a fixing plate structure (31) having a main auxiliary hole (317) removably sleeved on the sleeve portion (22), and at least one secondary auxiliary hole (318) for insertion of another soft tube (91) into the mouth (92) of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Inventor: Chang-Bih Shie
  • Patent number: 12280215
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to medical tubes and methods of manufacturing medical tubes. The tube may be a composite structure made of two or more distinct components that are spirally wound to form an elongate tube. For example, one of the components may be a spirally wound elongate hollow body, and the other component may be an elongate structural component also spirally wound between turns of the spirally wound hollow body. The tube need not be made from distinct components, however. For instance, an elongate hollow body formed (e.g., extruded) from a single material may be spirally wound to form an elongate tube. The elongate hollow body itself may in transverse cross-section have a thin wall portion and a relatively thicker or more rigid reinforcement portion. The tubes can be incorporated into a variety of medical circuits or may be employed for other medical uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Elmo Benson Stoks, Charles Christopher North
  • Patent number: 12280207
    Abstract: A respiratory therapy apparatus is operable to deliver multiple types of therapy to a patient. The apparatus includes a main housing and a nebulizer tray that selectively attaches to a bottom of the main housing. The apparatus also includes a filter housing unit having an antenna surrounding a pneumatic passage and a transponder chip coupled to the antenna. The main housing has also has an antenna that surrounds a respective pneumatic passage of a main outlet port of the apparatus. The main housing includes a reader that controls communication between the antennae. The main housing of the apparatus also has a pivotable hose support plate, a firmware upgrade port underneath part of the top wall of the housing, and a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays various user inputs for control of the apparatus and that displays various alert conditions that are detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: HILL-ROM SERVICE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Jack Barney Sing, Yong Guan Tay, Song Chiun Yong, Wee Chin Tay, Pratheep Kumar Mahalingam, Sangadi Nookarajesh Varma, Ravivarman Ganesan, Shu Hwa Liau, Leonardo B. Artiaga, Jr., Jiang Cong, Leah Noaeill, Susan Malaret, Baoyi Wu, Travis A. Pelo, Justin Liew
  • Patent number: 12280204
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for measuring at least one inhalation flow feature in an inhaler, wherein a capsule containing a formulation is located in the inhaler, the method comprising the steps of sensing an impact feature relating to impacts of the capsule on the inhaler and correlating the impact feature to at least one inhalation flow feature. The present invention also relates to an inhaler adapted to aerosolize a formulation contained in a capsule, wherein the inhaler comprises a sensor for sensing an impact feature relating to impacts of the capsule on the inhaler and a processor for correlating the impact feature to at least one inhalation flow feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Dominik Ziegler, Richard Pavkov
  • Patent number: 12280216
    Abstract: Apparatus for providing a mixture including nitrous oxide (N2O) to a subject are disclosed. One apparatus includes a first reservoir for storing a first gas including at least N2O and a mask connected to the first reservoir in which the mask includes a second reservoir integrated with the mask. The second reservoir is for storing a first additive and the mask is for combining the first gas and the first additive to create a mixture including at least the N2O and the first additive in the mask and introducing the mixture to the mouth and/or nose of a subject. Another apparatus includes a configuration including separate first and second reservoirs storing at least N2O and a first additive in which the first reservoir and/or the second reservoir are detachably connected to the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Inventor: Thomas E. Garrison
  • Patent number: 12280217
    Abstract: A heat plate for a humidifier contains a thermally conductive plate having a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface. A temperature sensor is affixed to the bottom surface and a thermally conductive layer is directly-affixed to the bottom surface. A ceramic heating element is directly affixed to the thermally conductive layer. A humidifier and medical device may also contain such a heater plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: VINCENT MEDICAL (DONG GUAN) MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., VINCENT MEDICAL (DONGGUAN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Lei, Jiebing Xu, Haibin Yu, Zhenxiang Hu, Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 12268907
    Abstract: A modular, low profile PAPR system includes a blower, a filter rail chassis removably attachable to an inlet of the blower, a hose system removably attachable to the outlet of the blower, and a removable battery pack. The hose system comprises an ovular outer tube that maintains a generally flat profile for the hose as it extends across or along the operator's body. Two circular air carrying conduits are sealed within such ovular outer tube against outside contamination and provide a flat, small profile tube system that resists hoop stress applied to the outside of the hose, provides low resistance against bending, that will not inadvertently kink or seal in low radius turns, and that results in a low profile, non-collapsing hose system for delivering air from a remotely carried blower and filter assembly to the operator's protective mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: D. Wheatley Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg A. Tilley, Brian Curlee
  • Patent number: 12263296
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a laminar evaporator including an electrical resistance heating element for pulse heating and evaporation of an inhalationally receivable material distributed or distributable on the heating element surface by an electric heating current flowing or flowable in a laminar manner with at least two electrical contacts or poles for introducing the heating current into the resistance heating element, wherein the resistance heating element has at least one slot-shaped recess constricting lines of flux of an original electric field forming or formable between the at least two electrical contacts or poles and comprises a porous structure having a porosity of 70% or greater holding or capable of holding the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventor: Helmut Buchberger
  • Patent number: 12262740
    Abstract: An inhaler vaporizer cartridge includes a housing body with a flow channel, a liquid storage tank, and a vaporizer unit. The vaporizer unit has a wick member and heating member and is liquid-permeable such that liquid is conveyed from the tank through the vaporizer unit to the flow channel. The housing body has a cavity forming the tank and a wick member receiving chamber, and housing is divided by an intermediate wall and a flow channel section. An access opening from the receiving chamber to the flow channel is formed in the intermediate wall and covered by the heating member. Granular grains in the receiving chamber form the wick member and bear against the heating member. The grains form microchannels and are retained by a cover element. An access opening, covered with a liquid-permeable grid structure, establishes a liquid connection from the tank to receiving chamber in the intermediate wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: KÖRBER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Max Bergmann, Lasse Cornils, Matthias Giese, Christian Hanneken, Jan Jaklin, Marc Kessler, Michael Kleine Wächter, Thomas Müller, Niklas Romming, Rene Schmidt, Christof Schuster, Tobias Wuttke
  • Patent number: 12263298
    Abstract: A device for inhaling powder-type substances includes a mouthpiece, an insertion unit having a retaining part with an insertion means for opening a sub-region in a substance container containing the substance, and a discharge channel for the substance leading to the mouthpiece. In order to advantageously further improve a device of this type, it is proposed that two insertion units are provided, having preferably two retaining parts, which are separate from one another, which each have an insertion means, and with which the substance container can be opened in intersecting or opposing insertion directions. The device for inhaling powder-type substances also includes a plurality of substance containers that can be moved successively into an emptying position. The number of emptied or non-emptied substance containers can be displayed via a counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Inventor: Alfred Von Schuckmann
  • Patent number: 12263308
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a respiratory disorder in a patient, includes a respiratory pressure therapy device that generates a flow of air at positive pressure for treating the respiratory disorder. An air circuit transports the flow of air generated by the respiratory pressure therapy device to a patient interface. A nebuliser module is located at or adjacent to a proximal end of the air circuit to nebulise a liquid to form a nebula of the liquid. The nebula is admitted into the flow of air generated by the respiratory pressure therapy device. A vaporiser is located at the distal end of the air circuit to receive and vaporise the nebula to form a humidified flow of air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: ResMed Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Dmitri Anatolievich Doudkine, Andrew Chan, Tumul Gupta
  • Patent number: 12257389
    Abstract: A wye connector has a patient coupling end. The patient coupling end has a first connector surface and a second connector surface. The first connector surface has a first diameter at an axial location along the patient coupling end. The second connector surface has a second diameter at the same axial location along the patient coupling end. The first diameter is larger than the second diameter. The second connector surface projects axially outward beyond the first connector surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Madeleine Bess Martin, David Robert Kemps
  • Patent number: 12251510
    Abstract: A breath-enhanced nebulizer adapted for use in administering an aerosolized pharmaceutical composition to a patient by inhalation wherein the patient is connected to a mechanical ventilator is disclosed. The nebulizer has a Venturi driven by a nebulizer air supply that draws a solution of a pharmaceutical composition into a shear zone where the solution is atomized. The Venturi effect is amplified by the internal configuration of the nebulizer to increase the rate of nebulization of drug. Optionally, breath-actuated nebulization is used, employing a pressure sensor interposed between the nebulizer and mechanical ventilator that controls the nebulizer air supply, such that nebulizer air and concomitant nebulization only occurs during the inhalation phase of a breathing cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventors: Gerald Smaldone, Rohinton Toddywala, Akanksha Hande, Vijay Shukla
  • Patent number: 12245978
    Abstract: A device and a method for reversibly connecting a rehabilitation mechanism to a bed, such as a hospital bed that can be brought to a vertical position. The device has a connection element arranged on the rehabilitation mechanism; a receiving unit, which can be arranged at the side of and/or at the foot end of the bed; the receiving unit corresponds in design to the connection element; and a transport device for transporting the rehabilitation mechanism toward and away from the bed. The transport device and/or the bed is height-adjustable. A method for operating a rehabilitation mechanism connected to a bed by way of the novel device. Easy, fast, reversible connection of a rehabilitation mechanism to a conventional hospital bed is enabled, in particular to a hospital bed that can be brought to a vertical position. Existing beds can be quickly and economically retrofitted with a robot system for kinesiotherapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: ReActive Robotics GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Koenig, Helfried Peyrl, Ramona Susanna Schlaefer, Maximilian Grosse-Dunker, Helmut Oschwald
  • Patent number: 12239600
    Abstract: In embodiments, a CPR chest compression system includes a retention structure that can retain the patient's body, and a compression mechanism that can perform automatically CPR compressions and releases to the patient's chest. The compression mechanism can pause the performing of the CPR compressions for a short time, so that an attendant can check the patient. The CPR system also includes a user interface that can output a human-perceptible check patient prompt, to alert an attendant to check the patient during the pause. An advantage can be when the attendant checks in situations where the condition of the patient might have changed, and an adjustment is needed. Or in situations where the patient may have improved enough to where the compressions are no longer needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: STRYKER CORPORATION, JOLIFE AB, PHYSIO-CONTROL, INC.
    Inventors: Erik von Schenck, Anders Nilsson, Sara Lindroth, Robert Walker, Fred Chapman, Krystyna Szul, Gregory T. Kavounas
  • Patent number: 12239785
    Abstract: A ventilation system having a mask, a blowing assembly, and a processor. The mask has a mask body and a pressure sensor operatively associated with the mask body and configured to measure pressure within the mask. The mask body defines an inlet opening and a plurality of leak openings. The blowing assembly is positioned in fluid communication with the inlet opening of the mask body and configured to direct air to the inlet opening of the mask body. The processor is positioned in operative communication with the blowing assembly and the pressure sensor of the mask. The processor is configured to selectively control the blowing assembly based upon at least the measured pressure within the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Michael Fogarty, Joseph Orr, Kai Kuck