Patents Examined by Kendra D. Carter
  • Patent number: 12214232
    Abstract: A powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) carriage and assembly includes: a blower assembly configured to draw in and purify ambient air; a power source operably connected to the blower assembly; and a carriage, which is configured to be worn by a user and to receive and carry the blower assembly and the power source. The carriage includes a main body that is configured to be worn on the shoulders of the user and includes a first cavity for receiving the power source and a second cavity for receiving the blower assembly. The first cavity and the second cavity are defined by portions of the main body positioned on opposing anterior and posterior sides of the user when worn. When the PAPR carriage and assembly is in use, the carriage thus causes the weight of the blower assembly and the power source to be distributed across the upper body of the user in a counterbalanced manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: E.D. Bullard Company
    Inventors: Paul A. Kinzer, William Chad Wedding, Marcus Landon Borders, Jonathan Scott Fisher
  • Patent number: 12214131
    Abstract: A lower jaw and tongue thrusting endotracheal tube and flexible fiberoptic endoscope intubation oral airway device having an elongated body including, a mandible flange with a lingual flat portion transversely disposed on a ventral surface of a tongue plate. The device having an open top toward the palate like a rectangular trough. The trough extends through the device from the proximal end to the front middle part of the tongue plate. The device includes an L-shaped insert that slideably couples between the upper lip flanges and acts also as dorsal surface of the bite block. The distal end of the tongue plate end comprises a curved surface which tapers to a narrow distal edge. A pair of upstanding walls attach to the tongue faceplate ventral surface edges which taper as they extend posteriorly. The walls ensure protection for medical instruments disposed within the flexible fiberoptic endoscope guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: WEDGE THERAPEUTICS, LLC
    Inventors: Totada R Shantha, Robert Wieden
  • Patent number: 12214137
    Abstract: An air circuit for use in an air therapy device that is lightweight and comfortable for a user that is configured to also limit air leakage. The air circuit may include a tubular structure formed from various textile structures including circular weaving, circular knitting, braiding and other structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: ResMed Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Andrew Chan
  • Patent number: 12208206
    Abstract: A closed automated suction device (CASD) is described. The device is designed to overcome the need for manual suction and to facilitate strict asepsis in patients who are endotracheally intubated or tracheostomied. The device includes an outer tube with an inner tube concentrically nested within to define a cavity therebetween. The inner tube comprises a passage extended therethrough for providing ventilation, and the cavity between the inner and outer tubes is configured for communication with a vacuum source to provide aspiration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventor: Dileep R. Yavagal
  • Patent number: 12208200
    Abstract: A steam inhaler includes a steam chamber housing having mounted therein a heater assembly. The steam chamber housing defines a steam chamber adapted to receive water. A fitting mounted to the steam chamber housing has a steam conduit section extended toward an exterior vent opening, a nozzle conduit section extended from the steam conduit, and a fresh air conduit section extended from the steam conduit section at a location downstream of the nozzle conduit section. The fitting is configured such that steam flows freely from the steam chamber, through the steam conduit section toward the exterior vent opening, a suction provided at the nozzle redirects at least a portion of the steam into the nozzle conduit section toward a mask, and the fresh air conduit directs fresh air into the steam conduit section to reduce a temperature of the steam exiting the exterior vent opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: HELEN OF TROY LIMITED
    Inventors: John D. Gundlach, Kevin M. Johnson, Dio Climaco Cavero
  • Patent number: 12194204
    Abstract: Personal equipment having a radiation source or an array of radiation sources for creating an aura of radiation in the vicinity of the user. The created aura is oriented in space, such as to be safe for the user but harmful to microbiological contaminants present in the air in the vicinity of the user and bombarding the user in routine situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventor: Martin Mintchev
  • Patent number: 12193990
    Abstract: A chest compression device with a chest compression belt assembly including guards and sensors operable with a control system to control operation of the system depending on detection of proper installation of the guards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ZOLL Circulation, Inc.
    Inventors: Anna G. Prestezog, David T. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 12194229
    Abstract: A medication delivery system having a holding chamber capable of delivering dosages of medicament from a metered dose inhaler. The holding chamber includes a first housing component having a user interface with an outlet opening and a second housing component having an inlet opening spaced apart from the outlet opening of the first housing component. The first housing component is pivotally connected to the second housing component about a pivot axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TRUDELL MEDICAL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Sam Bender, Adam Meyer, Michael Nuttall
  • Patent number: 12186262
    Abstract: Device and method for relieving muscle tension. The device includes a tip portion with a first three dimensional geometry, an extension portion with a second three dimensional geometry, and a base portion with a third three dimensional geometry. The device is configured such that a user can attain trigger point release on a muscle or muscle group by positioning the device on a fixed surface, positioning the tip portion of the device to be in contact with the muscle or muscle group, and then selectively applying pressure to the muscle or muscle group using the weight of the user and contact forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Aletha Inc.
    Inventor: Christine Annette Koth
  • Patent number: 12186576
    Abstract: An energy concentration apparatus is disclosed. The energy concentration apparatus includes a body part; a loop antenna coil part disposed on the body part; and a cover part coupled to the body part in order to cover the loop antenna coil part. The cover part has a central hole and a micro-slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: UIF (UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION), YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Heon Jin Choi, Jae Suk Sung
  • Patent number: 12186490
    Abstract: A ventilator console includes an inhalation port, an exhalation port, a console sampler to sample pressure or flow at the exhalation port and at least one sensor to sense at least one of pressure and flow velocity. The ventilator console additionally includes at least one external control port that provides an interface for flow or pressure communication between the at least one sensor and a tube connected to a patient circuit and a three-way valve integrated into the at least one external control port. The three-way valve is connected to the at least one sensor via a common port and toggles between establishing flow or pressure communication to the console sampler and establishing flow or pressure communication to the external control port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Flight Medical Innovations Ltd.
    Inventors: Amir Kleinstern, Nitzan Hirsh, Yossi Halfon
  • Patent number: 12186256
    Abstract: This application provides a massager including a shell, where the shell includes a first body, a second body, and a silicone sleeve, the first body and the second body are inserted along a length direction of the shell, and the silicone sleeve sleeves the first body and the second body; a jacking assembly configured to extend and retract to drive the second body to move relative to the first body along the length direction of the shell; and an expansion assembly configured to expand so as to enlarge a diameter of the silicone sleeve outside the second body. In this application, the jacking assembly and the expansion assembly are used to increase the length and diameter of the massager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Guangzhou Tiankang Limei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Zhong, Hao Chen, Xiangteng Jiang, Xiaoting Lan
  • Patent number: 12161806
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ventilator including a ventilation gas source, a ventilation tube assembly, a valve assembly, a flow sensor assembly comprising a distal flow sensor and a proximal flow sensor, a pressure sensor assembly for quantitatively detecting a gas pressure in the ventilation tube assembly a pressure-changing assembly for changing the gas pressure in the ventilation tube assembly and a control device which is designed at least to control the operation of the pressure-changing assembly on the basis of measurement signals from the proximal flow sensor, and on the basis of measurement signals from the proximal flow sensor and from the distal flow sensor, to infer the existence of a fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Hamilton Medical AG
    Inventors: Christoph Schranz, Dominik Wolf, Dominik Novotni
  • Patent number: 12144926
    Abstract: A patient interface includes a cushion assembly adapted to form a seal around the patient's nose and/or mouth and a gas washout vent configured to allow a flow of patient exhaled CO2 to an exterior of the patient interface to minimise rebreathing of exhaled CO2 by the patient. The cushion assembly defines a plenum chamber pressurised at a pressure above ambient pressure in use. At least one volume reducing member is provided within the plenum chamber to reduce an effective internal volume of the plenum chamber. The at least one volume reducing member is arranged to separate a main volume of the plenum chamber for delivery of the therapy pressure from deadspace volume provided at least superior the entrance to the patient's nasal passages. The main volume is adapted to be in direct fluid communication with the patient's nose and/or mouth and the vent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: ResMed Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Charles Harry Finch
  • Patent number: 12144778
    Abstract: A CPR chest compression device with a cooling exhaust flow path configured to direct cooling air flow through the device. A CPR chest compression device with a battery retainer interoperable with the control system to provide for controlled shut-down when an operator attempts to remove the battery during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Circulation, Inc.
    Inventors: Byron J. Reynolds, David T. Lawrence, Ian Smith
  • Patent number: 12145008
    Abstract: A respiratory protection system for use during surgery. The respiratory protection system may be a powered air purifying respirator, a supplied air respirator, or a self-contained breathing apparatus. The system may include an integrated surgical headlight and/or integrated surgical loupes. The system may further offer a face shield that fits very close to the wearer's eyes above the nasal dorsum, allowing use of the system while operating a microscope or the optics of a robotic surgery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Inventor: Scott Cordray
  • Patent number: 12133996
    Abstract: A bidirectional reusable filtering face mask is described that includes an anatomical base provided with means to promote adherence to the face and pass-through elements for closure by means of ties; a first filtering chamber used to prevent respiratory droplets from spreading and obtained by fixing a removable disposable filter on the outer side of the anatomical base; a second filtering chamber comprising a removable dome with a recess in its apical part adapted to accommodate a main removable disposable filter, where the filter is secured to the recess by means of a protective grid; and means for assembling the components of the second filtering chamber with the first filtering chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: UPBIOCARE S.R.L.
    Inventor: Oscar Meschi
  • Patent number: 12128174
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices and methods for the use of medicament devices. The devices and methods may be used to detect or sense one or more parameters of a medicament device, for instance, shake parameters, actuation parameters, or inhalation airflow parameters. The devices and methods may be used to indicate to a user that the medicament device is in an appropriate condition for actuation of the medicament device. The devices and methods may be used to indicate to a user that the medicament device is in a condition to deliver an intended dosage range of a formulation. The devices and methods may further be used to guide a user through proper usage of a medicament device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PROVERIS SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Susan Hanmer Farina, Dino John Farina
  • Patent number: 12121656
    Abstract: The present invention provides plastic and rubber devices molded to fit on existing anesthesia masks. The devices capture and sequester waste anesthetic gases that escape out of the perimeter of an anesthesia mask that has been fitted onto a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Thomas Jefferson University
    Inventors: Alice Jane Karp, Delara Kiani, Cary Hess, Corey Jameson
  • Patent number: 12121659
    Abstract: A patient interface is configured to deliver pressurized breathable gas to a patient's airways and includes a flexible cushion forming at least a portion of a plenum chamber. A pair of flexible receptacles are integrally formed with the flexible cushion and are formed on opposite lateral sides of the flexible cushion. Each flexible receptacle includes an inner wall that forms an opening configured to receive an air delivery tube and an outer wall that is radially offset from the inner wall. The outer wall extends laterally beyond the inner wall on a posterior side of the flexible receptacle and does not extend laterally beyond the inner wall on an anterior side of the flexible receptacle. The patient interface further includes a gas washout vent, a support structure that is attached to and is more rigid than the flexible cushion, and a pair of headgear connectors located on opposing lateral sides of the support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: ResMed Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Lee James Veliss, Carmel Therese Harrington, Philip Rodney Kwok, Philip John Gunning, Joshua Adam Gudisken, Bart Jeremy Caffin, Richard Sokolov, Ian Frederick Johnson, Eric Sui