Patents by Inventor Darren Y. K. Yap
Darren Y. K. Yap 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: 11484643Abstract: An ambulatory infusing device including a housing, a reservoir defining an interior volume, a wall associated with the housing and having an inner surface that faces into the reservoir interior volume, and a filter assembly. The filter assembly may include a filter assembly housing with a housing filter portion having a free end associated with the inner surface of the wall and a filter supporting volume that extends to the free end of the housing filter portion, and a filter located within the filter supporting volume that extends to at least the free end of the housing filter portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.Inventors: Susan McConnell Montalvo, Charles L. Byers, Rudolph A. Montalvo, Milton Stott, Darren Y. K. Yap
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Patent number: 11452814Abstract: An ambulatory infusing device including a housing, a reservoir defining an interior volume, a wall associated with the housing and having an inner surface that faces into the reservoir interior volume, and a filter assembly. The filter assembly may include a filter assembly housing with a housing filter portion having a filter supporting volume, a filter located within the filter supporting volume, and a bubble guard, including a bubble guard wall and at least one bubble guard aperture that extends through the bubble guard wall, associated with the filter assembly housing such that the bubble guard wall is located in spaced relation to the filter.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.Inventors: Susan McConnell Montalvo, Rudolph A. Montalvo, Milton Stott, Darren Y. K. Yap
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Publication number: 20200390970Abstract: An ambulatory infusing device including a housing, a reservoir defining an interior volume, a wall associated with the housing and having an inner surface that faces into the reservoir interior volume, and a filter assembly. The filter assembly may include a filter assembly housing with a housing filter portion having a free end associated with the inner surface of the wall and a filter supporting volume that extends to the free end of the housing filter portion, and a filter located within the filter supporting volume that extends to at least the free end of the housing filter portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: The Alfred E. Mann Found. For Scientific ResearchInventors: Susan McConnell Montalvo, Charles L. Byers, Rudolph A. Montalvo, Milton Stott, Darren Y.K. Yap
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Publication number: 20200297923Abstract: An ambulatory infusing device including a housing, a reservoir defining an interior volume, a wall associated with the housing and having an inner surface that faces into the reservoir interior volume, and a filter assembly. The filter assembly may include a filter assembly housing with a housing filter portion having a filter supporting volume, a filter located within the filter supporting volume, and a bubble guard, including a bubble guard wall and at least one bubble guard aperture that extends through the bubble guard wall, associated with the filter assembly housing such that the bubble guard wall is located in spaced relation to the filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: The Alfred E. Mann For Scientific ResearchInventors: Susan McConnell Montalvo, Rudolph A. Montalvo, Milton Scott, Darren Y.K. Yap
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Patent number: 10675403Abstract: An ambulatory infusing device including a housing, a reservoir defining an interior volume, a wall associated with the housing and having an inner surface that faces into the reservoir interior volume, and a filter assembly. The filter assembly may include a filter assembly housing with a housing filter portion having a free end associated with the inner surface of the wall and a filter supporting volume that extends to the free end of the housing filter portion, and a filter located within the filter supporting volume that extends to at least the free end of the housing filter portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: The Alfred E. Mann Found. For Scientific ResearchInventors: Susan McConnell Montalvo, Charles L. Byers, Rudolph A. Montalvo, Milton Stott, Darren Y. K. Yap
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Patent number: 10668209Abstract: An ambulatory infusing device including a housing, a reservoir defining an interior volume, a wall associated with the housing and having an inner surface that faces into the reservoir interior volume, and a filter assembly. The filter assembly may include a filter assembly housing with a housing filter portion having a filter supporting volume, a filter located within the filter supporting volume, and a bubble guard, including a bubble guard wall and at least one bubble guard aperture that extends through the bubble guard wall, associated with the filter assembly housing such that the bubble guard wall is located in spaced relation to the filter.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: The Alfred E. Mann Found. For Scientific ResearchInventors: Susan McConnell Montalvo, Rudolph A. Montalvo, Milton Stott, Darren Y. K. Yap
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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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Publication number: 20180214633Abstract: An ambulatory infusing device including a housing, a reservoir defining an interior volume, a wall associated with the housing and having an inner surface that faces into the reservoir interior volume, and a filter assembly. The filter assembly may include a filter assembly housing with a housing filter portion having a filter supporting volume, a filter located within the filter supporting volume, and a bubble guard, including a bubble guard wall and at least one bubble guard aperture that extends through the bubble guard wall, associated with the filter assembly housing such that the bubble guard wall is located in spaced relation to the filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: Medallion Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Susan McConnell Montalvo, Rudolph A. Montalvo, Milton Stott, Darren Y.K. Yap
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Publication number: 20180214632Abstract: An ambulatory infusing device including a housing, a reservoir defining an interior volume, a wall associated with the housing and having an inner surface that faces into the reservoir interior volume, and a filter assembly. The filter assembly may include a filter assembly housing with a housing filter portion having a free end associated with the inner surface of the wall and a filter supporting volume that extends to the free end of the housing filter portion, and a filter located within the filter supporting volume that extends to at least the free end of the housing filter portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: Medallion Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Susan McConnell Montalvo, Charles L. Byers, Rudolph A. Montalvo, Milton Stott, 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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Patent number: 9841014Abstract: An insulin pump data acquisition device & system including: an insulin pump data acquisition device for use with an insulin pump, the data acquisition device including a holster having a wall defining an interior volume and an exterior volume, the exterior volume being sized to removably secure the insulin pump; 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. The environmental sensor, the memory, the controller, and the battery are disposed within the interior volume.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.Inventors: Darren Y. K. Yap, Carl A. Link, Vincent Ming Hai Chow, William Jackson Dannemann, Jennifer Marie Reitmajer
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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: 20160106911Abstract: An insulin pump data acquisition device & system including: an insulin pump data acquisition device for use with an insulin pump, the data acquisition device including a holster having a wall defining an interior volume and an exterior volume, the exterior volume being sized to removably secure the insulin pump; 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. The environmental sensor, the memory, the controller, and the battery are disposed within the interior volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Darren Y.K. Yap, Carl A. Link, Vincent Ming Hai Chow, William Jackson Dannemann, Jennifer Marie Reitmajer
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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