Patents by Inventor Donna Palmer

Donna Palmer 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).

  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPENING AN AIRWAY
    Publication number: 20230079060
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper airway. The device fits under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: SOMMETRICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jerome K. AARESTAD, Richard ROSE, John NELSON, Donna PALMER
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPENING AN AIRWAY
    Publication number: 20220331139
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper respiratory passages. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Jerome AARESTAD, Richard ROSE, John NELSON, Donna PALMER
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPENING AN AIRWAY
    Publication number: 20200276047
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper respiratory passages. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: SOMMETRICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jerome K. Aarestad, Richard Rose, John Nelson, Donna Palmer, Paulo Rangel
  • Device and method for opening an airway
    Patent number: 10653552
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper respiratory passages. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SOMMETRICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jerome K. Aarestad, Richard Rose, John Nelson, Donna Palmer, Paulo Rangel
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPENING AN AIRWAY
    Publication number: 20190240065
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper airway. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: SOMMETRICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jerome K. AARESTAD, Richard ROSE, John NELSON, Donna PALMER
  • Device and method for opening an airway
    Patent number: 10258496
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper airway. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SOMMETRICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jerome Aarestad, Richard Rose, John Nelson, Donna Palmer
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPENING AN AIRWAY
    Publication number: 20190038453
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper respiratory passages. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: SOMMETRICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jerome K. Aarestad, Richard Rose, John Nelson, Donna Palmer, Paulo Rangel
  • Device and method for opening an airway
    Patent number: 10092442
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper respiratory passages. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: SOMMETRICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jerome K. Aarestad, Richard Rose, John Nelson, Donna Palmer, Paulo Rangel
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPENING AN AIRWAY
    Publication number: 20170367874
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper respiratory passages. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: SOMMETRICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jerome K. Aarestad, Richard Rose, John Nelson, Donna Palmer, Paulo Rangel
  • Device and method for opening an airway
    Patent number: 9820881
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper respiratory passages. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SOMMETRICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jerome Aarestad, Richard Rose, John Nelson, Donna Palmer, Paulo Rangel
  • Biomarkers For Treatment Outcomes
    Publication number: 20170044616
    Abstract: The utilization of biomarkers, which include objectively measureable and assessable indicators of a biological process or biological state, in treatments is disclosed. Particularly, biomarkers enabling optimisation of treatment regimes and the use of the biomarkers in tests for the prediction of optimised treatments and treatment outcomes in the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) are disclosed. Measurable and assessable cognitive and/or genomic parameters can be biomarkers indicating changes in system severity of MDD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Evian Gordon, Leanne Williams, Donna Palmer, William Rekshan
  • Biomarkers For Treatment Outcomes
    Publication number: 20150190083
    Abstract: The utilization of biomarkers, which include objectively measurable and assessable indicators of a biological process or biological state, in treatments is disclosed. Particularly, biomarkers enabling optimisation of treatment regimes and the use of the biomarkers in tests for the prediction of optimised treatments and treatment outcomes in the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) are disclosed. Measurable and assessable cognitive and/or genomic parameters can be biomarkers indicating changes in system severity of MDD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Evian Gordon, Leanne Williams, Donna Palmer, William Rekshan
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPENING AN AIRWAY
    Publication number: 20110066086
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper respiratory passages. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: 5I SCIENCES
    Inventors: Jerome Aarestad, Richard Rose, John Nelson, Donna Palmer, Paulo Rangel
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPENING AN AIRWAY
    Publication number: 20100275910
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper airway. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Jerome Aarestad, Richard Rose, John Nelson, Donna Palmer
  • Device and method for opening an airway
    Patent number: 7762263
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper airway. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: 5i Sciences
    Inventors: Jerome Aarestad, Richard Rose, John Nelson, Donna Palmer
  • Device and method for opening an airway
    Publication number: 20080163875
    Abstract: A device and a method for creating and/or maintaining an obstruction free upper airway. The device is configured to fit under the chin of a subject adjacent to the subject's neck at an external location corresponding approximately with the subject's internal soft tissue associated with the neck's anterior triangle. The device is capable of exerting negative pressure on the surface of a subject's neck, displacing the soft tissue forward and enlarging the airway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: 5i Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Aarestad, Richard Rose, John Nelson, Donna Palmer
  • Pulmonary delivery of a liquid medicament aerosol
    Publication number: 20050118108
    Abstract: The invention is directed to liquid compositions containing a drug and liquid carrier vehicles for direct pulmonary delivery of a pharmaceutically active agent to a patient in need of treatment wherein the liquid carrier vehicle consists primarily of a fluorocarbon liquid and a co-solvent such as ethanol and to methods of administering such liquid compositions using an electrohydrodynamic (EHD) aerosolization/spraying means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2003
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Ada Cowan, Donna Palmer