Patents by Inventor Alexander E. Holmes
Alexander E. Holmes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10455639Abstract: A protocol translation device for use with a first apparatus having a battery compartment and communicating over a first wireless protocol, and for use with a second apparatus communicating over a second wireless protocol. The protocol translation device can include a battery casing sized to fit within the battery compartment, the battery casing defining an interior volume; a translator having a first antenna operable to communicate with the first apparatus, a second antenna operable to communicate with the second apparatus, and a translator circuit operably connected between the first antenna and the second antenna; and a battery operably connected to power the translator. The translator circuit is operable to translate between the first wireless protocol and the second wireless protocol. The translator and the battery are disposed within the interior volume.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.Inventors: Alexander E. Holmes, Darren Y. K. Yap
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Publication number: 20180255609Abstract: A protocol translation device for use with a first apparatus having a battery compartment and communicating over a first wireless protocol, and for use with a second apparatus communicating over a second wireless protocol. The protocol translation device can include a battery casing sized to fit within the battery compartment, the battery casing defining an interior volume; a translator having a first antenna operable to communicate with the first apparatus, a second antenna operable to communicate with the second apparatus, and a translator circuit operably connected between the first antenna and the second antenna; and a battery operably connected to power the translator. The translator circuit is operable to translate between the first wireless protocol and the second wireless protocol. The translator and the battery are disposed within the interior volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Alexander E. Holmes, Darren Y.K. Yap
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Patent number: 9992818Abstract: A protocol translation device for use with a first apparatus having a battery compartment and communicating over a first wireless protocol, and for use with a second apparatus communicating over a second wireless protocol. The protocol translation device can include a battery casing sized to fit within the battery compartment, the battery casing defining an interior volume; a translator having a first antenna operable to communicate with the first apparatus, a second antenna operable to communicate with the second apparatus, and a translator circuit operably connected between the first antenna and the second antenna; and a battery operably connected to power the translator. The translator circuit is operable to translate between the first wireless protocol and the second wireless protocol. The translator and the battery are disposed within the interior volume.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.Inventors: Alexander E. Holmes, Darren Y. K. Yap
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Patent number: 9885650Abstract: An accelerated life testing device and method including an accelerated life testing method for a test piece within a test chamber, the method including: establishing a first atmosphere within the test chamber; changing the first atmosphere to a second atmosphere to form a deposition layer on the test piece; changing the second atmosphere to the first atmosphere to remove the deposition layer from the test piece; and repeating the changing the first atmosphere to the second atmosphere and the changing the second atmosphere to the first atmosphere to form an oxidation layer on the test piece.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.Inventors: Darren Y. K. Yap, Alexander E. Holmes
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Publication number: 20170095610Abstract: A personal injection device wearable by a user to deliver fluid from a reservoir to the user, the personal injection device including: a quartz oscillator operable to generate a constant frequency signal; a control circuit operably connected to the quartz oscillator, the control circuit being operable to generate a drive signal in response to the constant frequency signal; a stator operably connected to the control circuit and defining a rotor gap, the stator being operable to generate an oscillatory field in the rotor gap in response to the drive signal; a magnetic rotor disposed in the rotor gap, the magnetic rotor being operable to rotate in response to the oscillatory field; and a pump operably connected to the magnetic rotor, the pump being operable to move the fluid from the reservoir to the user in response to the rotation of the magnetic rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Alexander E. Holmes, Darren Y.K. Yap
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Publication number: 20170099698Abstract: A protocol translation device for use with a first apparatus having a battery compartment and communicating over a first wireless protocol, and for use with a second apparatus communicating over a second wireless protocol. The protocol translation device can include a battery casing sized to fit within the battery compartment, the battery casing defining an interior volume; a translator having a first antenna operable to communicate with the first apparatus, a second antenna operable to communicate with the second apparatus, and a translator circuit operably connected between the first antenna and the second antenna; and a battery operably connected to power the translator. The translator circuit is operable to translate between the first wireless protocol and the second wireless protocol. The translator and the battery are disposed within the interior volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2015Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Alexander E. Holmes, Darren Y.K. Yap
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Patent number: 9592335Abstract: An insulin pump data acquisition device including: an insulin pump casing having an interior volume; an environmental sensor operable to generate environmental data in response to environmental conditions; memory operably connected to the environmental sensor, the memory being operable to store the environmental data; a controller operably connected to the environmental sensor and the memory, the controller being operable to control reading of the environmental data from the environmental sensor and writing of the environmental data to the memory; and a battery operably connected to power the environmental sensor, the memory, and the controller; wherein the environmental sensor, the memory, the controller, and the battery are disposed within the interior volume.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.Inventors: Darren Y. K. Yap, Solomon Li, Alexander E. Holmes, William Jackson Dannemann
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Publication number: 20160131571Abstract: An accelerated life testing device and method including an accelerated life testing method for a test piece within a test chamber, the method including: establishing a first atmosphere within the test chamber; changing the first atmosphere to a second atmosphere to form a deposition layer on the test piece; changing the second atmosphere to the first atmosphere to remove the deposition layer from the test piece; and repeating the changing the first atmosphere to the second atmosphere and the changing the second atmosphere to the first atmosphere to form an oxidation layer on the test piece.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2016Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventors: Darren Y.K. Yap, Alexander E. Holmes
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Publication number: 20160106910Abstract: An insulin pump data acquisition device including: an insulin pump casing having an interior volume; an environmental sensor operable to generate environmental data in response to environmental conditions; memory operably connected to the environmental sensor, the memory being operable to store the environmental data; a controller operably connected to the environmental sensor and the memory, the controller being operable to control reading of the environmental data from the environmental sensor and writing of the environmental data to the memory; and a battery operably connected to power the environmental sensor, the memory, and the controller; wherein the environmental sensor, the memory, the controller, and the battery are disposed within the interior volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2014Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Darren Y.K. Yap, Solomon Li, Alexander E. Holmes, William Jackson Dannemann
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Patent number: 9267875Abstract: An accelerated life testing device and method including an accelerated life testing method for a test piece within a test chamber, the method including: establishing a first atmosphere within the test chamber; changing the first atmosphere to a second atmosphere to form a deposition layer on the test piece; changing the second atmosphere to the first atmosphere to remove the deposition layer from the test piece; and repeating the changing the first atmosphere to the second atmosphere and the changing the second atmosphere to the first atmosphere to form an oxidation layer on the test piece.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.Inventors: Darren Y. K. Yap, Alexander E. Holmes
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Publication number: 20150135862Abstract: An accelerated life testing device and method including an accelerated life testing method for a test piece within a test chamber, the method including: establishing a first atmosphere within the test chamber; changing the first atmosphere to a second atmosphere to form a deposition layer on the test piece; changing the second atmosphere to the first atmosphere to remove the deposition layer from the test piece; and repeating the changing the first atmosphere to the second atmosphere and the changing the second atmosphere to the first atmosphere to form an oxidation layer on the test piece.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.Inventors: Darren Y.K. Yap, Alexander E. Holmes