Patents Examined by Susan S. Su
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Patent number: 11957546Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for treating a tissue site are described. In some embodiments, the system may include a pouch having an upstream layer, a downstream layer, and an absorbent member enclosed between the upstream layer and the downstream layer. The upstream layer and the downstream layer may each include a hydrophobic side and a hydrophilic side. The hydrophilic side of both the upstream layer and the downstream layer may be positioned facing the absorbent member. The hydrophobic side of both the upstream layer and the downstream layer may form a portion of an exterior surface of the pouch such that fluid incident on the pouch is distributed laterally along the exterior surface of the pouch before being absorbed by the absorbent member.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Richard Daniel John Coulthard, Timothy Mark Robinson, Christopher Brian Locke
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Patent number: 11944731Abstract: A dialyzer control apparatus includes a magnetic field generator which is disposed on an outer surface of a dialyzer which removes wastes from a blood flowing therein and generates a magnetic field; and a controller which controls the magnetic field generator to perform a magnetic field stimulation on the blood flowing into the dialyzer. The magnetic field stimulation may be a stimulation related to the improvement of the Rouleaux formation for the red blood cells in the blood.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY WONJU CAMPUSInventors: Yong Heum Lee, Na Ra Lee, Soo Yong Lee, Ja Woo Lee
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Patent number: 11938052Abstract: An ostomy appliance wafer has a skin facing layer of adhesive applied to a proximal side of a film layer to define a proximal skin facing surface of the ostomy appliance wafer, and the skin facing layer of adhesive has a thickness in a range between 25 to 200 micrometers.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Coloplast A/SInventors: Esben Stroebech, Mads Lykke, Anders Bach
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Patent number: 11938004Abstract: The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles having a waist gasketing element, with the gasketing element having an adhesive zone and one or more adhesive-free zones. At least a portion of the waist gasketing element is adhesively attached to a chassis of the absorbent article. Additionally, a portion of the waist gasketing element is mechanically attached to a portion of the absorbent article.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Thorsten Rinnert, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Darren Lee Goad, Michael Brian Quade, Jason Edward Naylor, Uwe Schneider, Thomas F. Gross
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Patent number: 11925574Abstract: In an example, a fecal collection system includes a user interface assembly, a drainage conduit, and a collection reservoir. The user interface assembly includes a user interface and an applicator. The user interface has a proximal side and a distal side. The proximal side is configured to couple to skin of a user. The applicator is coupled to the distal side of the user interface. The applicator is removable from the user interface while the user interface is coupled to the user. The drainage conduit extends between a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end is configured to couple to the distal side of the user interface. The drainage conduit defines a lumen configured to guide feces from the proximal end to the distal end. The collection reservoir coupled to the distal end of the drainage conduit.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Sage Products, LLCInventors: Kristin M. Sexton, Catherine S. Boulos, Brian J. Ecklund
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Patent number: 11925536Abstract: A disposable absorbent hygiene product is provided, including a main part having a body facing surface intended to face the body of a user and a garment facing surface intended to face away from the body of a user. The main part includes a liquid permeable topsheet at the body facing surface, a liquid impermeable backsheet at the garment facing surface, and an absorbent assembly arranged between the topsheet and the backsheet. The liquid permeable topsheet material includes a hydrophilically treated polypropylene spunbond nonwoven or spunbond/meltblown composite nonwoven, having a basis weight of from 8 to 20 g/m2. An acquisition layer material is provided sandwiched between said topsheet and said absorbent assembly, being an through air bonded nonwoven.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAGInventors: Annika Hermenius, Patrik Andersson, Edward Guidotti
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Patent number: 11925746Abstract: One implementation of the present disclosure is a negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) system, according to some embodiments. In some embodiments, the system includes an instillation system configured to provide instillation fluid to a wound site, and a controller. In some embodiments, the wound site includes a wound and a wound dressing. In some embodiments, the controller is configured to provide a first quantity of instillation fluid for a first instillation cycle. In some embodiments, the controller is configured to determine a second quantity of instillation fluid for a second instillation cycle based on the first quantity and a reduction factor. In some embodiments, the second quantity of instillation fluid is less than the first quantity of instillation fluid. In some embodiments, the controller is configured to adjust an operation of the instillation system to provide the second quantity of instillation fluid to the wound site.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Christopher Brian Locke, Benjamin Andrew Pratt
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Patent number: 11918444Abstract: An absorbent pad including a fluid permeable topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core. The absorbent core has a front portion, a rear portion and an intermediate portion, the front portion, the rear portion and the intermediate portion being of equal lengths, the absorbent core having a width varying no more than 20 mm along its length, wherein the topsheet in a printed central absorption zone, arranged over the front portion, the rear portion and the intermediate portion of the absorbent core, is provided with a first printed pattern including first print elements and the topsheet in a peripheral security zone arranged at least over the rear portion of the absorbent core, is provided with a second printed pattern including second print elements, wherein a degree of coverage of the second printed pattern is at least 30% greater than a degree of coverage of the first printed pattern.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAGInventors: Hanna Svensson, Linda Rönn
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Patent number: 11918540Abstract: An improvement to a standardized design of a body for small-bore connectors for liquids and/or gases in a healthcare application, wherein the body has a spout with a standardized upper portion. The upper portion can have a standardized external thread or can have a different size and shape for the external thread. The body can have a standardized internal flange or another differently sized and shaped internal flange. The body can have an internal void though which the liquids and/or gases flow. At least a portion of the standardized internal flange or another internal flange can be eliminated or removed to reduce a flow restriction caused by the standardized internal flange and thus increase a flow area of the internal void.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: VONCO PRODUCTS, LLCInventors: Keith E. Smith, John LaRoi, James F. Konicke, Kyle Vlasak
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Patent number: 11918549Abstract: A wound irrigation system includes a first fluid including an ion rich compound having free available ions; and a second fluid including an oxidation-reduction potential increasing compound, the second fluid housed separately from the first fluid. Mixing the first and second fluids in a charging area forms an ionically charged fluid with an oxidation-reduction potential higher than a wound site oxidation-potential. The ionically charged fluid increases antimicrobial activity of the wound upon application.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: AZ SOLUTIONS LLCInventor: Derek Hill
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Patent number: 11911245Abstract: A compact applicator has a two-piece telescoping plunger. The compact applicator, with such telescoping plunger, has a full-size barrel region while maintaining an overall applicator length that is the same and/or slightly shorter than current known compact applicators. In a non-deployed configuration, the inner sleeve of the plunger is generally telescoped within the outer sleeve of the plunger, and the outer sleeve of the plunger is generally telescoped within the applicator barrel.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Edgewell Personal Care Brands, LLCInventors: Sezen Buell, Joseph Fedora, James McCandless, Hassan Mohamed, Peter Preisner
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Patent number: 11911552Abstract: A combined bio-artificial liver support system, includes branch tubes that are connected in sequence: a blood input branch tube, an upstream tail end, a first plasma separation branch tube comprising at least a first plasma separator, a non-biological purification branch tube comprising at least a plasma perfusion device and a bilirubin adsorber, a biological purification branch tube comprising at least a hepatocyte culture cartridge assembly, and a plasma return branch tube, a downstream tail end of which is set as a blood output end.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Southern Medical University Zhujiang HospitalInventors: Yi Gao, Mingxin Pan, Lei Feng, Yang Li, Lei Cai, Guolin He, Jun Weng, Qing Peng
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Patent number: 11911340Abstract: A fluid container for holding a fluid, specifically adapted for improved user handling by reducing the risk of fluid spillage in combination with easy extraction of the fluid comprised in the container. The present disclosure also relates to a fluid container system.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: MÖLNLYCKE HEALTH CARE ABInventor: Conny Jakobsson
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Patent number: 11911251Abstract: An absorbent article (20, 20?) comprising a topsheet (58), a backsheet (42,60), and an absorbent core (62), and at least one nonwoven-nonwoven adhesive bond other than a core stabilization bond, wherein the adhesive of the adhesive bond has a Toughness of at least 11 MJ/m3, a Yield Stress of at least 0.7 MPa. The adhesive may further have a storage modulus G? of at least 7.5 MPa. These are as measured at 37° C. according to the methods described herein. The adhesive comprises at least 5% by weight of the adhesive of a tackifier.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: The Procter and Gamble CompanyInventors: Holger Beruda, Torsten Lindner, Matthias Morand, Thomas Tombuelt, Robert Haines Turner
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Patent number: 11911244Abstract: An absorbent article includes a body portion extending along a first axis and having a proximal end and a distal end spaced from the proximal end along the first axis. The absorbent article also includes a plurality of layers radially disposed about the body portion. Each layer includes one or more absorbent petals each extending along a petal axis. The petal axis of one of the petals of one of the layers is angularly offset to the petal axis of an adjacent petal of an adjacent layer. The one or more absorbent petals are movable between a compacted configuration and an expanded configuration. The one or more absorbent petals, when introduced to a fluid, is configured to absorb the fluid and transition from the compacted configuration to the expanded configuration. The absorbent article includes a string coupled to the body portion. The body portion and/or string includes hemp.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Better Made Hemp, LLCInventor: Alexandra Blasius
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Patent number: 11896756Abstract: A system for delivering reduced pressure and irrigation fluid to a wound site. The system includes a primary pressure source for delivering reduced pressure through a first lumen, a secondary pressure source for delivering secondary pressure through a second lumen, and an irrigation fluid source. A valve system is operable to selectively couple the secondary pressure source to the second lumen for delivering the secondary pressure to a wound site and selectively couple the fluid source to the second lumen for delivering the irrigation fluid to the wound site.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: DeRoyal Industries, Inc.Inventors: Vincent Denis Jardret, Jonathan Matthew Cayce, Joe Lowell Smith
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Patent number: 11890180Abstract: Systems and methods for the intravascular treatment of clot material within a blood vessel of a human patient are disclosed herein. A method in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, positioning a distal portion of a catheter proximate to the clot material within the blood vessel. The method can further include coupling a pressure source to the catheter via a tubing subsystem including a valve or other fluid control device and, while the valve is closed, activating the pressure source to charge a vacuum. The valve can then be opened to apply the vacuum to the catheter to thereby aspirate at least a portion of the clot material from the blood vessel and into the catheter.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Inari Medical, Inc.Inventors: Ben Merritt, Jacqueline Macias, Brian Michael Strauss, Thomas Tu
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Patent number: 11890237Abstract: A collection system for collecting outflow from a hysteroscopic surgical procedure includes a plurality of collection vessels each including a flexible body defining an internal volume and transitionable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The collection system further includes connection tubing coupling adjacent collection vessels with one another, outflow tubing coupled to at least one of the collection vessels, and a plurality of retention canisters. Each retention canister includes a rigid body. Each collection vessel is configured to engage a corresponding retention canister such that each rigid body at least partially receives one of the flexible bodies therein.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Nikolai D. Begg, Allen X. An, Dalia Leibowitz, Timothy J. Wood, Jordan A. Whisler, Chad A. Pickering
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Patent number: 11883266Abstract: A device for placement and removal of a menstrual cup according to various aspects of the present disclosure includes an outer component and an inner component. The outer component extends along a longitudinal axis between first proximal and distal ends. The outer component includes a peripheral wall, a first interior region, and a protrusion. The peripheral wall includes an interior surface. The first interior region is at least partially defined by the peripheral wall. The protrusion extends from the interior surface toward the longitudinal axis. In certain aspects, the outer component includes an upper portion and a lower portion removably coupled to the upper portion. The inner component extends between a second proximal and distal ends. The inner component is disposed at least partially within the first interior region. The inner component is slidable along the longitudinal axis with respect to the outer component.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Inventor: Madison Duensing
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Patent number: 11883577Abstract: A fluid collection apparatus for use in negative pressure wound therapy. The fluid collection apparatus includes a flexible bag having a first opening and a second opening. The bag includes a structure defining a fluid pathway connecting the first opening and the second opening. The pathway is circulative and contributes to orientation independence of the bag in use. The bag further includes a load-bearing component.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: ConvaTec Technologies Inc.Inventors: Robert Gordon Maurice Selby, Lawrence Mark Baker, Steven Paul Gowers