Patents by Inventor Charles Edward Nokes, Jr.

Charles Edward Nokes, Jr. 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).

  • Sterilizing device for medical instruments
    Patent number: 8083998
    Abstract: A sterilizing device for sterilizing at least a portion of a medical instrument including a housing, a reservoir suitable for containing sterilizing agent, a delivery system for conducting the sterilizing agent from the reservoir to a permeable membrane, and a lock out system that blocks access to the permeable membrane when insufficient sterilizing agent is present in the reservoir. In preferred embodiments the delivery mechanism is activatable by pressure applied to the permeable membrane by the at least a portion of the medical instrument (e.g. a head of a stethoscope).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Redpoint International, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Hurwitz, Charles Edward Nokes, Jr.
  • STERILIZING DEVICE FOR MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS
    Publication number: 20090238738
    Abstract: A sterilizing device for sterilizing at least a portion of a medical instrument including a housing, a reservoir suitable for containing sterilizing agent, a delivery system for conducting the sterilizing agent from the reservoir to a permeable membrane, and a lock out system that blocks access to the permeable membrane when insufficient sterilizing agent is present in the reservoir. In preferred embodiments the delivery mechanism is activatable by pressure applied to the permeable membrane by the at least a portion of the medical instrument (e.g. a head of a stethoscope).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: REDPOINT INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua Hurwitz, Charles Edward Nokes, JR.