Patents by Inventor Eric T. Hansen

Eric T. Hansen 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: 20230358471
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-part lyophilization container for lyophilizing a fluid, storing the lyophilizate, reconstituting the lyophilizate, and infusing the reconstituted lyophilizate into a patient, including a method of using same. The container includes a front surface, a back surface, a non-breathable section including a port region, a breathable section including a breathable membrane, and a peelable region including a peelable seal encompassing a boundary between the non-breathable section and the breathable section. The method includes inputting a fluid into a non-breathable section of the container, freezing the fluid, applying, in a lyophilization chamber, vacuum pressure, opening the peelable seal using a pressure differential, applying heat energy, sublimating the fluid and creating a temporary occlusion in a peelable region of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Kestas P. PARAKININKAS, Eric T. HANSEN, Kirk L. WEIMER, Nathaniel T. JOHNSON, Dennis J. HLAVINKA
  • Patent number: 11747082
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-part lyophilization container for lyophilizing a fluid, storing the lyophilizate, reconstituting the lyophilizate, and infusing the reconstituted lyophilizate into a patient, including a method of using same. The container includes a front surface, a back surface, a non-breathable section including a port region, a breathable section including a breathable membrane, and a peelable region including a peelable seal encompassing a boundary between the non-breathable section and the breathable section. The method includes inputting a fluid into a non-breathable section of the container, freezing the fluid, applying, in a lyophilization chamber, vacuum pressure, opening the peelable seal using a pressure differential, applying heat energy, sublimating the fluid and creating a temporary occlusion in a peelable region of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Terumo BCT Biotechnologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kestas P. Parakininkas, Eric T. Hansen, Kirk L. Weimer, Nathaniel T. Johnson, Dennis J. Hlavinka
  • Publication number: 20230086359
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-part lyophilization container for lyophilizing a fluid, storing the lyophilizate, reconstituting the lyophilizate, and infusing the reconstituted lyophilizate into a patient, including a method of using same. The container includes a front surface, a back surface, a non-breathable section including a port region, a breathable section including a breathable membrane, and a peelable region including a peelable seal encompassing a boundary between the non-breathable section and the breathable section. The method includes inputting a fluid into a non-breathable section of the container, freezing the fluid, applying, in a lyophilization chamber, vacuum pressure, opening the peelable seal using a pressure differential, applying heat energy, sublimating the fluid and creating a temporary occlusion in a peelable region of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kestas P. PARAKININKAS, Eric T. HANSEN, Kirk L. WEIMER, Nathaniel T. JOHNSON, Dennis J. HLAVINKA
  • Patent number: 11609042
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-part lyophilization container for lyophilizing a fluid, storing the lyophilizate, reconstituting the lyophilizate, and infusing the reconstituted lyophilizate into a patient, including a method of using same. The container includes a front surface, a back surface, a non-breathable section including a port region, a breathable section including a breathable membrane, and a peelable region including a peelable seal encompassing a boundary between the non-breathable section and the breathable section. The method includes inputting a fluid into a non-breathable section of the container, freezing the fluid, applying, in a lyophilization chamber, vacuum pressure, opening the peelable seal using a pressure differential, applying heat energy, sublimating the fluid and creating a temporary occlusion in a peelable region of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Terumo BCT Biotechnologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kestas P. Parakininkas, Eric T. Hansen, Kirk L. Weimer, Nathaniel T. Johnson, Dennis J. Hlavinka
  • Publication number: 20200288703
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-part lyophilization container for lyophilizing a fluid, storing the lyophilizate, reconstituting the lyophilizate, and infusing the reconstituted lyophilizate into a patient, including a method of using same. The container includes a front surface, a back surface, a non-breathable section including a port region, a breathable section including a breathable membrane, and a peelable region including a peelable seal encompassing a boundary between the non-breathable section and the breathable section. The method includes inputting a fluid into a non-breathable section of the container, freezing the fluid, applying, in a lyophilization chamber, vacuum pressure, opening the peelable seal using a pressure differential, applying heat energy, sublimating the fluid and creating a temporary occlusion in a peelable region of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Terumo BCT Biotechnologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kestas P. PARAKININKAS, Eric T. HANSEN, Kirk L. WEIMER, Nathaniel T. JOHNSON, Dennis J. HLAVINKA
  • Publication number: 20110306617
    Abstract: Methods are provided for preparation of compositions having an enhanced level of soluble alloxazine, as compared to compositions prepared using conventional techniques. Compositions and a riboflavin form having higher solubility in solution is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: CARIDIANBCT BIOTECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Eric T. HANSEN, Raymond P. GOODRICH
  • Patent number: 8044051
    Abstract: Methods are provided for preparation of compositions having an enhanced level of soluble alloxazine, as compared to compositions prepared using conventional techniques. Compositions and a riboflavin form having higher solubility in solution is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: CaridianBCT Biotechnologies, LLC
    Inventors: Eric T. Hansen, Raymond P. Goodrich
  • Patent number: 8016736
    Abstract: A method for washing multiple units of blood product including providing a centrifuge having a wash cell for each unit of blood product, balancing the centrifuge to accommodate for differences in the wash cells, and transferring supernatant including any wash solution from each unit of blood product on the centrifuge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: CaridianBCT Biotechnologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis J. Hlavinka, Raymond P. Goodrich, Eric T. Hansen
  • Patent number: 7438679
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for balancing a centrifuge having interconnected hydraulic chambers in containers on a rotor, each container being adapted to receive a composite fluid, comprising transferring, by the rotation of the rotor, hydraulic liquid from a source to the interconnected hydraulic chambers to balance the centrifuge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: CaridianBCT Biotechnologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis J. Hlavinka, Eric T. Hansen
  • Publication number: 20080096750
    Abstract: A method for washing multiple units of blood product including providing a centrifuge having a wash cell for each unit of blood product, balancing the centrifuge to accommodate for differences in the wash cells, and transferring supernatant including any wash solution from each unit of blood product on the centrifuge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: NAVIGANT BIOTECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis J. HLAVINKA, Raymond P. GOODRICH, Eric T. HANSEN
  • Publication number: 20070178437
    Abstract: Methods are provided for preparation of compositions having an enhanced level of soluble alloxazine, as compared to compositions prepared using conventional techniques. Compositions and a riboflavin form having higher solubility in solution is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Eric T. Hansen, Raymond P. Goodrich
  • Patent number: 6138694
    Abstract: A multiple stage wet processing platform includes a sealable enclosure, at least two processing modules positioned within the enclosure, at least one of them including a housing having an opening and a door moveable into position covering the opening, at least two processing vessels within the housing, and an intra-module robot within the housing and including a wafer support member, the intra-module robot moveable to a first position in which the support is disposed in a first one of the processing vessels and a second position in which the support is disposed in a second one of the processing vessels. An inter-module robot is positioned within the enclosure and is moveable between a first position adjacent to a first one of the modules and a second position adjacent to a second one of the modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: SCP Global Technologies
    Inventors: Eric T. Hansen, William Warren Becia, Thomas Wayne Ives, Victor B. Mimken, Randy Mark Hall, Thomas Krawzak
  • Patent number: 6136724
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing multiple wet processing steps on objects placed within a sealed chamber. The apparatus include a sealable chamber, at least one processing tank within the chamber, and preferably also includes an intrachamber robot configured to move objects to be treated within the chamber. Preferred embodiments utilize at least two processing tanks within the chamber. During use of these exemplary embodiments, objects to be treated are placed within the sealed chamber and the chamber is sealed to create a sealed interior environment. The objects are immersed in a first treatment fluid which is in a first one of the tanks, and then carried by the intrachamber robot from the first to the second tank where there are immersed in a second treatment fluid in the second tank. The objects may be moved back and forth between the tanks as needed in order to complete the process being performed. After processing is complete, the chamber is unsealed and the objects are removed from the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: SCP Global Technologies
    Inventors: Eric T. Hansen, William Warren Becia, Thomas Wayne Ives, Victor B. Mimken, Randy Mark Hall, Tom Krawzak