Patents Examined by Sarah Al-Hashimi
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Patent number: 12127916Abstract: An evaporative bridge dressing that may be used with negative-pressure treatment of tissue. The evaporative bridge dressing may have one or more fluid transfer layers comprised of high-density wicking material enclosed between layers of film having high moisture-vapor transfer rates to reduce liquid storage and minimize pressure drop.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties CompanyInventors: Christopher Brian Locke, Justin Alexander Long, Benjamin Locke, Benjamin Andrew Pratt, Thomas Alan Edwards
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Patent number: 12121616Abstract: The present invention relates to transdermal therapeutic systems (TTS) for the transdermal administration of solifenacin.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: LTS LOHMANN THERAPIE-SYSTEME AGInventors: Gabriel Wauer, Frank Seibertz
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Patent number: 12102509Abstract: In some non-limiting examples, a system for stimulating tissue growth at a tissue site may include a porous foam and a moisture barrier. The porous foam may include an exterior-facing surface, a tissue contact surface, and a plurality of struts positioned at the tissue contact surface. The plurality of struts may be configured to contact the tissue site and to create tissue deformation at the tissue site without the application of a reduced pressure. The moisture barrier may be configured to cover the exterior-facing surface of the porous foam and to trap moisture at the tissue site. Also provided are other systems, apparatus, and methods suitable for stimulating tissue growth.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties CompanyInventors: T. Blane Sanders, Christopher Allen Carroll, Hannah I. Grothues
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Patent number: 12090087Abstract: Multi-dose preservative-free ocular fluid delivery devices are provided. The fluid delivery device includes a fluid dispensing system and a fluid package for storing a liquid therein and supplying said liquid to the dispensing system. The dispensing system comprises an elongated chamber which includes a check valve which defines a frontal closure to the chamber. The valve is normally closed and hermetically seals the chamber. The dispenser includes a vibration motor that induces oscillations to the chamber and to the fluid within. The oscillations of the chamber impart momentum to the fluid stored in the chamber which in turn imparts force that cyclically opens the valve to dispense streams or liquid droplets. Fluid is dispensed only when the motor oscillates while otherwise the valve is hermetically closed. The fluid package can be made collapsible to remove the need to vent it.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Bausch + Lomb Ireland LimitedInventor: Yehuda Ivri
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Patent number: 12090083Abstract: A urine collection device includes a collection member extending from a proximal end to a distal end. The proximal end includes an opening that provides access to an internal cavity of the collection member. The internal cavity includes a first chamber in fluid communication with a second chamber. The urine collection device includes a spacer in the second chamber, a first attachment member extending from a bottom wall of the collection member at the proximal end, a second attachment member extending from a top wall of the collection member at the proximal end, and an outlet for egressing urine from the internal cavity of the collection member. The first attachment member defines an aperture. The collection member is suitable to (i) direct urine from the first chamber to the second chamber and (ii) direct the urine in the second chamber distally toward the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Sage Products, LLCInventors: Brian J. Ecklund, Kristin M. Sexton, Alex D. Kea, Daniel R. Ulreich
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Patent number: 12090030Abstract: A wound dressing according to certain embodiments includes an adhesive layer for adhering the wound dressing adjacent to a wound, a wound contact layer for contacting the wound, a backing layer comprising a port, a tube having a first end connected with the port and an opposite second end, a first fitting connected to the second end of the tube, the first fitting configured for connection with a second fitting of the negative pressure wound therapy system to apply a negative pressure via the port, and a filter disposed within the first fitting. In certain embodiments, the filter is formed of polyethersulfone (PESU) and has an average pore size of at least 2 microns.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: CONVATEC LIMITEDInventors: Duncan C. Gilding, Andrew Peers, Shauna V. Powell
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Patent number: 12090259Abstract: The present invention is directed to wall box for hemodialysis interface having two isolated zones. The first zone is a clean interface zone having sources of purified water and dialysis fluids. The second zone is a waste interface zone comprising waste connectors and a waste drain.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Evoqua Water Technologies LLCInventors: Steven M. Schmitt, Garry O. Miller
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Patent number: 12042422Abstract: A device for collecting urine discharged from a body of a user includes a fluid collection assembly having at least one layer for drawing urine discharged from the body into an interior cavity, an external covering that covers a portion of the at least one layer, and at least one fenestration for receiving urine, wherein the fenestration is a portion of the fluid collection assembly that is uncovered by the external covering. The device further includes a cap enclosing a first end of the assembly, a tube having a first end in fluid communication with the cap, and a shape retaining element configured to conform the assembly to a curved configuration and maintain the curved configuration until the configuration is adjusted. The assembly is configured to be disposed against the body of the user, with the at least one fenestration in operative relation with a urethral opening of the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Sage Products, LLCInventors: Gregory T. Davis, Brett C. Blabas, Ryan A. Alvarez, Kristin M. Sexton, Adam R. Cole, Timothy J. Rapinchuk, Catherine S. Boulos
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Patent number: 12029632Abstract: A permeable undergarment comprising, a top portion and a bottom portion wherein the top portion of the undergarment is provided by a waistband, and the bottom portion of the undergarment is provided with the permeable layer. The permeable layer comprises a mesh of wicking fibres to wick the body fluids discharged from a user and transfers the body fluids through the permeable layer. A detachable pouch having a base layer and a plurality of side walls is also provided. The detachable pouch is defined such that, the base layer and the plurality of side walls together form a housing region. The housing region may house at least one absorption pad. The detachable pouch may be detachably attached or joined to the undergarment such that, the body fluids discharged from the user flows through the permeable layer and into the detachable pouch for absorption by the at least one absorption pad.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: MAS Innovation (Private) LimitedInventors: Mapitiyage Don Janith Dushyantha, Ranil Vitarana
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Patent number: 12029561Abstract: Provided is a blood collection unit suitable for accelerated blood coagulation of whole blood for subsequent autologous or allogeneic use. The blood collection unit includes an inside surface that an activation site accelerating coagulation by having a high roughness. Further provided is a blood collection unit including an inside surface that has an activation site having a high roughness area, and an interior of the blood collection unit has been prepared with a pressure of no more than 255 mBar, and preferably a pressure of no more than 130 mBar.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: REAPPLIX APSInventors: Rasmus Lundquist, Niels Erik Holm
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Patent number: 11992602Abstract: An apparatus for applying negative pressure to a wound is disclosed. The apparatus can include a housing, a pressure source, a canister, and a controller. The pressure source can be supported by the housing and provide negative pressure via a fluid flow path to a wound dressing positioned over a wound. The canister can collect exudate from the wound. The controller can monitor a parameter indicative of providing negative pressure to the wound dressing with the pressure source, determine from the parameter that the wound is treatable with a canisterless wound therapy apparatus, and output for presentation to a user a notification indicating that the wound is treatable with the canisterless wound therapy apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: T.J.Smith and Nephew, LimitedInventor: Felix Clarence Quintanar
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Patent number: 11986418Abstract: An ostomy system and a monitor device is disclosed, the monitor device being for an ostomy system comprising an ostomy appliance with a base plate and/or a sensor assembly part having a first adhesive layer with (a proximal side configured for attachment of the base plate and/or the sensor assembly part to the skin surface of a user, the first adhesive layer having a stomal opening with a center point, the monitor device comprising: a processor configured to: transmit a leakage monitor signal comprising monitor data indicative of presence of fluid in a sensing zone via the second interface.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Coloplast A/SInventors: Jais Ask Hansen, Finn Speiermann, Lars Erup Larsen, Niels Hvid
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Patent number: 11878108Abstract: An apparatus (1) for negative pressure wound therapy comprises a source of reduced pressure (10) and first (22a) and second (26a) chambers, the first chamber being in fluid communication with the source of reduced pressure such that a negative pressure may be generated in the first chamber, the negative pressure being prevented from exceeding a predetermined value by way of a pressure release means (30), and the second chamber comprising means (28) for establishing a fluid connection with a wound. A valve (24) between the first and second chambers permits the negative pressure in the second chamber to increase in response to an increase in the negative pressure in the first chamber and prevents the negative pressure in the second chamber from dropping in response to a drop in the negative pressure in the first chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: BRIGHTWAKE LIMITEDInventors: Stephen Cotton, Matthew Tasker
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Patent number: 11864773Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to devices, systems and methods adapted for implementing intermittent displacement of blood to mitigate peripheral nerve neuropathy such as that induced by chemotherapeutic agents (i.e., chemotherapy-induced neuropathy (CIN)) that are administered to a patient. Such devices, systems and methods advantageously provide for precise, uniform and controlled blood flow occluding (and optionally blood displacing) compression along irregular surfaces of an appendage of a patient. Such precise, uniform and controlled blood occluding compression is imparted upon the epidermal and dermis skin layers within the aforementioned areas of a patient's extremities to decrease the time that free nerve endings located in the epidermal and encapsulated nerve endings located in the dermis skin layers are exposed to nerve damaging chemotherapy chemicals, thereby substantially decreasing CIN caused by prolonged exposure to such chemicals.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Steve Eugene Everett
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Patent number: 11865296Abstract: A catheter system for draining a bodily fluid from a fluid source in a body of a subject. In one form, the catheter tube has a proximal end and a distal end. The catheter tube includes a drainage lumen that extends from a proximal end opening in the proximal end to a distal end opening in the distal end. The catheter system further includes a fluid sampling component in fluid communication with the distal end opening. In some embodiments, the catheter system includes a one-way check valve. In some embodiments, the catheter system includes a balloon positioned between one or more openings.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2017Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: DIGNITY HEALTHInventors: Roy Boukidjian, Gregoire Boukidjian
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Patent number: 11839567Abstract: A device for collecting urine discharged from a body of a user includes a fluid collection assembly having at least one layer for drawing urine discharged from the body into an interior cavity, an external covering that covers a portion of the at least one layer, and at least one fenestration for receiving urine, wherein the fenestration is a portion of the fluid collection assembly that is uncovered by the external covering. The device further includes a cap enclosing a first end of the assembly, a tube having a first end in fluid communication with the cap, and a shape retaining element configured to conform the assembly to a curved configuration and maintain the curved configuration until the configuration is adjusted. The assembly is configured to be disposed against the body of the user, with the at least one fenestration in operative relation with a urethral opening of the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Sage Products, LLCInventors: Gregory T. Davis, Brett C. Blabas, Ryan A. Alvarez, Kristin M. Sexton, Adam R. Cole, Timothy J. Rapinchuk, Catherine S. Boulos
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Patent number: 11819386Abstract: Disclosed herein are several embodiments of a negative pressure appliance and methods of using the same in the treatment of wounds. Some embodiments are directed to improved fluidic connectors or suction adapters for connecting to a wound site, having an air leak channel separated from a suction channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: T.J.Smith and Nephew, LimitedInventors: Nicola Brandolini, Felix Clarence Quintanar
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Patent number: 11813191Abstract: A urinary collection device includes an outer surface and a generally fluid-permeable core that communicates fluidically with an aspiration tube. The outer surface includes an obverse opening to allow urine to flow into the fluid-permeable core when the device is positioned supralabially. On the reverse may be an actuatable fastener configured to retain the device in a reverse-folded intralabial position. In this manner the device may be placed supralabially or intralabially for urine collection as appropriate. The core may include a first knit fabric layer and a second knit fabric layer joined by a plurality of fibers, the fibers being oriented generally to extend from an obverse to a reverse position to thereby result in flow channels through the core.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Medline Industries, LPInventors: Saul Godinez, Allison Peterson
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Patent number: 11806468Abstract: Embodiments of secure wound therapy systems and methods for operating the systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a pressure source, a user interface, and a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism can be in one of at least two states, the at least two states including a first state in which the locking mechanism physically prevents user adjustment of one or more operational parameters with the user interface and a second state in which the locking mechanism does not physically prevent user adjustment of the one or more operational parameters with the user interface. The locking mechanism can include an authentication key and a receiver configured to receive an authentication input, which may be compared to the authentication key. Providing a sufficiently matching authentication input can transition the locking mechanism from the first state to the second state, permitting adjustments to the one or more operational parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: T.J.Smith and Nephew, LimitedInventor: Felix Clarence Quintanar
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Patent number: 11806275Abstract: A penile condom catheter facilitates urine collection and egress of urinary fluids away from the body torso. A circumferential anchoring structure includes a web of flexible strands sized and arranged to at least partially contact a portion of the penis. The anchoring structure provides a flexible yet secure hold against the penis when flaccid and provides an increase in the hold when a longitudinal force is exerted upon the anchoring structure. An annularly circumferential penile skin covering material is affixed to the anchoring structure and sized to fit over at least a portion of the penis. A seal is affixed to at least a portion of a covering material, a covering material orifice, or an anchoring structure. A conduit is affixed to at least one of a covering material, a covering material orifice, a seal and an anchoring structure created to permit the flow of urinary fluid away.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Inventor: Alan N. Schwartz