Patents Examined by Neeraja Gollamudi
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Patent number: 11318256Abstract: Injection device comprising a housing having an insertion opening at its distal end, a syringe carrier arranged within said housing, an actuation sleeve that is slidably arranged in the housing, first and second energy accumulating members, a plunger holder that is operationally associated with the first energy accumulating member and the syringe carrier, and a plunger rod that is slidably arranged in relation to plunger holder and to the syringe carrier, the plunger rod being operationally associated with the second energy accumulating member.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AGInventor: Oscar Alexandersson
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Patent number: 11318252Abstract: An injection device for receiving a syringe therein and for delivering a dose of medicament from the syringe, the injection device including: a driver mechanism retainable in a primed state and releasable from the primed state for driving one or more features of the injection device forwards, a trigger mechanism including a ramped surface engaged with the driver mechanism to retain the driver mechanism in the primed state, the trigger mechanism being configured on actuation thereof to withdraw the ramped surface from engagement with the driver mechanism for release thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: OWEN MUMFORD LTDInventor: Kuiwei Zhang
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Patent number: 11318284Abstract: A catheter assembly includes a catheter and an inner needle inserted through the catheter. The catheter has a catheter body and a flexible portion that is provided at a distal portion of the catheter body, includes a most distal portion of the catheter, and is more flexible than the catheter body.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Ishida, Shinya Kusunoki
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Patent number: 11291800Abstract: A catheter is provided that includes a catheter body, a catheter hub, and a securing member disposed in the catheter hub to clamp the catheter between the securing member and the catheter hub. The securing member has an outer peripheral surface making contact with and stretching an inner peripheral surface of the catheter body. The catheter includes a recessed relief portion into which a thickness of the catheter body is inserted, the relief portion being partially provided circumferentially in an inner peripheral surface of the catheter hub.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takayuki Yokota
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Patent number: 11285305Abstract: The invention relates to an implantable device suitable for being fixed in a fixation position to a wall of a patient's stomach, the implantable device being accommodated in the stomach when the implantable device is in the fixation position, the implantable device being characterised in that it comprises a reserve of an active substance and an injector suitable for administering the active substance to the patient.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE GRENOBLE ALPESInventors: Philippe Cinquin, Patrick Tuvignon
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Patent number: 11273072Abstract: An apparatus includes a body, a cannula, a conduit, and a magnetic element. The cannula extends distally from the body. The cannula is flexible and has a distal end. The cannula defines a lumen distally terminating at the distal end. The cannula is sized and configured to pass between a sclera layer and a choroid layer in a human eye. The conduit is in fluid communication with the lumen. The magnetic element is positioned in the body.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Gyroscope Therapeutics LimitedInventors: Daniel W. Price, Brendan J. Oberkircher, Daniel J. Prenger, Geoffrey King, Isaac J. Khan, Michael F. Keane
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Patent number: 11266778Abstract: A patency checking system, may include a fluid path to be coupled to an intravenous (IV) device at a distal end of the fluid path; a patency port formed along a length of the fluid path; and a plunger fluidically coupled to the fluid path at the patency port to selectively draw blood into the fluid path to confirm patency of the fluid path.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: ;Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Yiping Ma, Joseph Spataro, Huy Tran, Kathryn Willybiro, Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Bart D. Peterson
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Patent number: 11253654Abstract: An injection device (1) for the delivery of medicament has an indicator (50) for providing an end of dose indication. The device comprises a housing (10), an extendable plunger (40), an actuation mechanism (30), a trigger arrangement (15), and an indicator (50). The extendable plunger (40) comprises a leading portion (42) and a trailing portion (48) configured to allow the plunger (40) to extend from an initial length to a maximum extended length, the plunger portions ((42),48) being slidably mounted within the housing (10). The actuation mechanism (30) is configured to move the leading portion (42) of the plunger (40) forwardly relative to a syringe (20) so as to express medicament from the syringe (20). The trigger arrangement (15) is moveable in use to release the actuation mechanism (30).Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Owen Mumford LimitedInventor: Tahir Shabudin
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Patent number: 11235103Abstract: A medicament delivery device is presented having a housing configured to accommodate a medicament container filled with medicament, a drive unit comprising a plunger rod operable to act on the medicament container, a mechanical activation mechanism configured to interact with the drive unit, where the mechanical activation mechanism is movable between certain predetermined states when interacting with the drive unit, a recording unit capable of recording status changes of the medicament delivery device including the status of the mechanical activation mechanism, and detection elements operably connected to the recording unit and positioned such as to detect when the activation mechanism has been moved between certain predetermined states.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AGInventor: Daniel Säll
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Patent number: 11235104Abstract: A medicament delivery device (100; 300; 400) comprises a chassis (124), a drive element (166) for driving a stopper (22) to expel the medicament through a cannula (144). A carrier (126) is arranged for movement with respect to the chassis (124). Insertion means (130, 202) biases the carrier (126) in an insertion direction. A control part (132) is biased for rotation with respect to the carrier (126). A locking element (176) prevents rotation of the control part (132) in an initial state. The locking element (176) is coupled to the drive element (166) such that the control part (132) is released for rotation when the drive element (166) reaches an activation position during a delivery stroke. Rotation of the control part (132) through a predetermined angle causes decoupling of the insertion means (130, 202) from the carrier (126) to allow movement of the carrier (126) in a retraction direction after the end of the delivery stroke.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Owen Mumford LimitedInventors: Toby Cowe, Timothy Evans
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Patent number: 11229739Abstract: An automatic fluid injection device having a body fastened to a support. The body containing one or more fluid reservoirs, each containing an injection piston; a needle assembly including an injection needle; and an injection mechanism. The needle assembly including an injection needle and an insertion actuator made of a shape memory alloy. The needle assembly having a retraction ring; a needle support; an insertion ring; a retraction spring; an actuator ring; and an insertion spring. The insertion spring and the retraction spring retained, at rest, in their compressed state, activation of the actuator by heating to about 50% of the available contraction causing the needle support to be released, and activation of the actuator by heating to reach 100% of the available contraction causing the insertion ring and the assembly formed of the needle support and of the injection needle to be released.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: APTAR FRANCE SASInventor: Sam Reeves
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Patent number: 11213249Abstract: A blood sugar regulation system including: a blood sugar sensor; an insulin injection device; and a processing and control unit predicting the future evolution of the blood sugar based on a physiological model and accordingly controlling the insulin injection device, wherein the processing and control unit is capable of: a) implementing a calibration of the model by taking into account a history of the measured blood sugar; b) at the end of the calibration step, determining whether the model is satisfactory or not based on at least one numerical indicator representative of the error between the blood sugar estimated based on the model and the real blood sugar measured by the sensor; and c) if the quality of the model is not satisfactory, controlling the insulin injection device without taking into account the predictions made from the model.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesInventor: Eléonore Doron
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Patent number: 11202869Abstract: An auto-retractable blood collection needle, including: a needle holder including a first tube, a second tube and a holder tail; a needle in stalled in the first tube; a built-in sliding sleeve which is elongated and through and has a C-shaped cross section; a needle shield which is hollow and elongated; and a spring sheathed on the first tube. The second tube is installed in the built-in sliding sleeve and is capable of sliding back and forth. The built-in sliding sleeve is installed in the needle shield and is capable of sliding back and forth. A locking mechanism is formed by the holder tail and the needle shield. When the holder tail is unlocked from the needle shield, a force of the spring pushes the second tube to slide backward, and then the built-in sliding sleeve is driven to slide rearward to lock with the needle shield.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Inventor: Zuyang Wang
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Patent number: 11202867Abstract: An activation assembly for a medicament delivery device is presented having a delivery member cover provided with legs and configured to be biased in a proximal direction, a movable sleeve configured to be received between the legs, and an activation sleeve configured to be biased in the proximal direction, wherein the delivery member cover is configured to be moved in an axial direction between a first position and a second position, wherein movement of the delivery member cover from the first position to the second position causes movement of the movable sleeve from a first movable sleeve position to a second movable sleeve position. The delivery member cover axially displaces the activation sleeve in a distal direction when the delivery member cover moves towards the second position, thereby causing a first actuation of a sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AGInventor: Anders Holmqvist
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Patent number: 11191924Abstract: A catheter assembly is disclosed, which includes a catheter, a catheter hub, a guide wire, and a guide wire hub. The guide wire has a guide wire rigidity changing portion that gradually decreases in rigidity from a proximal side toward a distal side, and the catheter has a catheter rigidity changing portion that gradually decreases in rigidity from a proximal side toward a distal side. In the catheter assembly, the catheter hub and the guide wire hub are connected to each other in a state where the distal side of the guide wire is exposed from a distal end of a lumen of a shaft portion and a guide wire rigidity changing point and a catheter rigidity changing point are aligned with each other in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kohei Watanabe
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Patent number: 11167110Abstract: The technical objective of the present disclosure is to provide a steerable catheter enabling a lumen tip to approach an affected area only with an endoscope inserted together, without the aid of a C-type gantry based tomography apparatus. To this end, the steerable catheter according to the present disclosure includes: a housing; a lumen shaft; upper left, lower left, upper right and lower right wire parts; upper left, lower left, upper right and lower right stoppers; and a steering part for upwardly steering the terminal end of the lumen shaft by pulling the upper left and upper right wire parts, downwardly steering the terminal end of the lumen shaft by pulling the lower left and lower right wire parts, leftwardly steering the terminal end of the lumen shaft by pulling the upper left or lower left wire part, and rightwardly steering the terminal end of the lumen shaft by pulling the upper right or lower right wire part.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: IMEDICOMInventor: Don Soo Joo
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Patent number: 11123534Abstract: A needle-free connector including a guiding base, a connecting base, a valve member, and a seal member is provided. The guiding base has a conduit, and the conduit extends downward along an axial direction. The connecting base is disposed on the guiding base and has a screw portion and a passage running through the screw portion. A chamber is formed between the guiding base and the connecting base, and the conduit and the passage respectively communicate with the chamber along the axial direction. The valve member is disposed between the guiding base and the connecting base, and is movably located in the chamber. The seal member is disposed at an end of the valve member far away from the conduit, and the seal member and the valve member are adapted to be connected into a whole in a manufacturing process.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Inventor: Tai-Yi Chen
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Patent number: 11116905Abstract: A system for serially injecting liquids includes a syringe body, proximal and distal stopper members disposed in the syringe body, a first liquid in a distal chamber, a second liquid in a proximal chamber, a plunger member, and a needle hub assembly coupled to a distal needle interface of the syringe body. The plunger member includes a needle retention feature disposed in a plunger interior, an energy-storage member disposed in the plunger interior, and an energy-storage member latching member disposed in the plunger interior. The needle assembly includes a needle having a needle proximal end feature, a hub, and a needle latching member configured to couple the needle to the hub. Manipulating the plunger member to insert the proximal stopper member distally relative to the syringe body initially expels the first liquid, then the second liquid. The needle is at least partially retractable into plunger interior.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Credence MedSystems, Inc.Inventors: Stephen H. Diaz, Jeff Tillack, Alan E. Shluzas, John F. Shanley, Dan Thayer, Gary Steese-Bradley, John Merhige
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Patent number: 11116910Abstract: An automatic feedback mechanism for a medicament delivery device that notifies a user of a start of expulsion of medicament from a medicament container is presented where a plunger rod, a tubular extension member arranged to receive the plunger rod in the radial space, and wherein the tubular extension member has flexible tongues configured to releasably lock the plunger rod in a pre-tensioned state. The tubular operation member is arranged to receive the tubular extension member, where the tubular operation member in a first position is arranged to press the flexible tongues radially inwards to lock the plunger rod in the pre-tensioned state. A first resilient member is arranged inside the plunger rod to exert a force in the proximal direction. A signal generating member is arranged to partially surround the plunger rod such that movement of the signal generating member distally hits the inner distal surface generating an audible signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AGInventors: Daniel Säll, Daniel Carlsson
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Patent number: 11116912Abstract: Needle shield mechanism for an auto-injector comprising, a tubular housing (10), a needle shield (12) movably arranged in the housing (10), between a retracted state and an extended position, a releasable spring-biased container carrier assembly movably arranged relative to the housing (10) from an initial position to a penetrating position, wherein the container carrier assembly prevents the needle shield (12) from moving to the extended position when the container carrier assembly is in the initial position, and wherein the container carrier assembly allows the needle shield (12) to move to the extended position when the container carrier assembly is in the penetrating position.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AGInventor: Slobodan Stefanov