Patents by Inventor Dale Poplin

Dale Poplin 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).

  • Patent number: 8777962
    Abstract: A circumcision device comprises a base, configured to engage a patient's body adjacent the patient's penis, and at least one support arm, extending from the base. A cutting assembly is carried by or on the at least one support arm, the cutting assembly being moveable relative to the base along the support arm. A cutting element is carried by the cutting assembly, the cutting element being operable to cut tissue of the penis to facilitate removal of the foreskin from the penis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: MedSurg Technology LLC
    Inventors: J. Dale Poplin, Woodrow L. Blevins, Thomas Crabtree, Mark Filstein
  • Patent number: 6729326
    Abstract: A manifold assembly useful in patient ventilation/aspiration systems includes a stop cock valve with a hollow stem and a transverse slot arranged to permit the stem to be rotated between open and closed positions. In both positions, a ventilating pathway is maintained through the slot and the stem between ventilator and patient connection ports of the manifold. In open position the stem provides a travel pathway for a catheter between the patient connection port and an access port of the manifold. In closed condition, the stem seals this travel pathway. Catheter depth finding features and internally walled manifold structure for direction of respiratory therapy fluids particularly useful for neonatal patients are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Sorenson Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Reed F. Winterton, Thomas E. McGee, J. Dale Poplin
  • Patent number: 5426911
    Abstract: A system for transporting by gravity a single-file series of elongate, tapered articles along an inclined transport path for distribution into receiving slots. The system includes a hopper for holding a supply of the articles and a pair of adjacently parallel rotating cylinders for holding the articles in suspended, sliding contact therebetween. A cleated conveyor belt carries the articles from the bottom of the hopper to a point above the cylinders and drops them onto said cylinders. The base of the hopper defines an inclined movement path to thereby convey articles which might fall from the cylinders back to the conveyor belt. The articles are thus fed by the conveyor onto the cylinders and slide along the gap therebetween to an end location. A series of three gates manipulates the articles one at a time to drop in a vertical orientation into an array of narrowly-tailored receiving slots in a packing rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Sorenson Bioscience
    Inventors: Dale Poplin, Joseph V. Smith, Gary Stout, Royce Herbst