Patents by Inventor Daniel Portillo

Daniel Portillo 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: 20230323903
    Abstract: Novel fluidic oscillator (FO) designs that can incorporate features to allow for performance tunability and pulsatile outlet flow. Novel fluidic designs that utilize 3D space are also incorporated. All novel design features mentioned herein can be combined in any fashion with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: LEONID BUNEGIN, ZACHARY FALLON, CHRISTOPHER COMBS, DANIEL PORTILLO, Lyle R. Hood
  • Publication number: 20230201454
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an improved implantable drug delivery device, method, and system that is powered by compression and expansion of an inert gas contained within a compressible bellows and surrounded by a biocompatible housing that forms a reservoir which is connected to restricted channel for flow rate control and further connected to a flexible reinforced catheter that delivers medicants from the reservoir to the intrathecal space or other desired bodily tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: RALPH JOHNSTON, PAUL FENTON, DOUG FRANTZ, DANIEL PORTILLO, SAKETH RAM, ROBERT LYLE HOOD
  • Publication number: 20230106780
    Abstract: A positive displacement pump can include a pump mechanism having a shaft configured to rotate about its long axis; a screw rod having a continuous thread around the circumference of the screw rod, the thread configured with an upward and downward thread component wherein the screw rod is operatively coupled to the shaft and reticulates along the long axis when the shaft is rotated about the long axis; a stylus positioned to engage the thread of the screw rod; cylindrical body forming a cavity configured to house at least a portion of the screw rod and allow movement of the screw rod along the long axis of the cylindrical body providing a pumping action in the cylindrical body cavity; an inlet and an outlet provided in the cylindrical body walls fluidly coupling the cylindrical body cavity with one or more external fluid paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Portillo, Robert Lyle Hood