Patents by Inventor Alexander Strachan

Alexander Strachan 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).

  • Publication number: 20110205065
    Abstract: Methods and systems to provide for safeguards in the insulin dosing calculation as part of the diabetes management. The system or method provides a warning if the person with diabetes is calculating a dosing regimen outside of a preselected time period in which certain dosing parameters are customized to the preselected time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: LifeScan Scotland Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexander STRACHAN, Gillian Teft, Robert Cavaye, Eric Bergman
  • Publication number: 20110205064
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods to utilize factual information based on stored blood glucose data to allow greater insight into the management of diabetes of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: LifeScan Scotland Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexander STRACHAN, David Price, Gillian Teft, Robert Cavaye, Miya Osaki, Kimberly Mingo Ventura, Lisa Powell, Kyia Downing
  • Publication number: 20110077493
    Abstract: Various embodiments are described and illustrated to calculate an insulin bolus, recommend such bolus, and provide reminder messages for performing an additional glucose test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: LifeScan Scotland Ltd.
    Inventors: Ian SHADFORTH, David PRICE, Gretchen ANDERSON, Lorraine COMSTOCK, Mary McEVOY, Douglas GRAHAM, Alexander STRACHAN, Alistair LONGMUIR, Robert CAVAYE, Gillian TEFT
  • Publication number: 20100041084
    Abstract: Described and illustrated herein is an exemplary method of operating an analyte measurement device having a display, user interface, processor, memory, and user interface buttons. Such method can be achieved by measuring an analyte with the analyte measurement device, displaying a value representative of the analyte, querying a user to select a predetermined flag to associate the predetermined flag with the value, and pressing only one of the user interface buttons once to store the predetermined flag with the value in the memory of the analyte measurement device. In one embodiment, the testing device is a glucose meter and the analyte being tested is glucose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: LifeScan Scotland Ltd.
    Inventors: Chris STEPHENS, Lynne Coventry, Raymond John Welsh, David Angus Sturrock, Alexander Strachan, Mel Chiba, Allan Orr
  • Patent number: 5944252
    Abstract: A method of making corrugated board having at least one fold region includes the steps of securing at least two sheets of paper liner in complementary facing engagement to create a first multi-layer liner. A first set of ridges of a first corrugated paper medium is secured to the first multi-layer composite liner to create a first single-face web. At least two sheets of paper liner are secured in complementary facing engagement to create a second multi-layer composite liner. A first set of ridges of a second corrugated paper medium is secured to the second multi-layer composite liner to create a second single-face web. A selected portion of the second corrugated paper medium is compressed to create an area to be bent. A second set of ridges of the first corrugated paper medium is secured to the second multi-layer composite liner. Adhesive is applied to the second set of ridges of the second corrugated paper medium, except for the compressed selected portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Connelly Containers, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas S. Connelly, Michael J. McGinley, Alexander Strachan, III
  • Patent number: 5690968
    Abstract: An analgesic anaesthetic composition comprising up to 50% v.backslash.v nitrous oxide, the balance being oxygen and another respirable gas; characterized by the addition of an analgesically effective amount of an ether-based analgesic anaesthetic disposed in a single container above its pseudo-critical temperature at a pressure of up to 2000 psi, thereby to form and maintain a homogenous analgesic composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Aberdeen University
    Inventors: John Alexander Strachan Ross, Michael Eric Tunstall, Robert Colin Rodgers