Patents by Inventor Fred L. Allen
Fred L. Allen 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: 11096756Abstract: A medical drape has a tool-less removal feature and includes a drape material, a drape cut, an adhesive tape strip, and a scoreline. The drape material has a top side, a back side, and at least one exterior edge. The drape cut has a starting point at the exterior edge and extends completely through the thickness of the drape material. The adhesive tape strip is positioned along the length of the drape cut to overlap at least a portion of the drape material on both sides of the drape cut to initially secure the two adjoining cut edges to each other. The scoreline extends along the length of the adhesive tape strip and only partially through the thickness of the adhesive tape strip to permit easy tearing of the adhesive tape strip for separation of the two adjoining cut edges.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.Inventor: Fred L Allen
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Patent number: 10342627Abstract: A drape for use in cranial surgical procedures including a sterile sheet and a plurality of fluid-collection pouches surrounding a cranial region fenestration. The drape further includes a thoracic region fenestration for concurrent or directly subsequent thoracic surgical procedures. Advantageously, the drape allows for a superior aseptic surgical field and superior drainage facilitated by a multi-pouch configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.Inventors: Debbie S Esquivel, Fred L Allen, Kimberly M Haines, Angelique M Trichak
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Patent number: 10271916Abstract: A medical drape has a tool-less removal feature and includes a drape material, a drape cut, an adhesive tape strip, and a scoreline. The drape material has a top side, a back side, and at least one exterior edge. The drape cut has a starting point at the exterior edge and extends completely through the thickness of the drape material. The adhesive tape strip is positioned along the length of the drape cut to overlap at least a portion of the drape material on both sides of the drape cut to initially secure the two adjoining cut edges to each other. The scoreline extends along the length of the adhesive tape strip and only partially through the thickness of the adhesive tape strip to permit easy tearing of the adhesive tape strip for separation of the two adjoining cut edges.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2008Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.Inventor: Fred L. Allen
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Publication number: 20180296295Abstract: A medical drape has a tool-less removal feature and includes a drape material, a drape cut, an adhesive tape strip, and a scoreline. The drape material has a top side, a back side, and at least one exterior edge. The drape cut has a starting point at the exterior edge and extends completely through the thickness of the drape material. The adhesive tape strip is positioned along the length of the drape cut to overlap at least a portion of the drape material on both sides of the drape cut to initially secure the two adjoining cut edges to each other. The scoreline extends along the length of the adhesive tape strip and only partially through the thickness of the adhesive tape strip to permit easy tearing of the adhesive tape strip for separation of the two adjoining cut edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventor: Fred L Allen
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Patent number: 10039610Abstract: A medical drape has a tool-less removal feature and includes a drape material, a drape cut, an adhesive tape strip, and a scoreline. The drape material has a top side, a back side, and at least one exterior edge. The drape cut has a starting point at the exterior edge and extends completely through the thickness of the drape material. The adhesive tape strip is positioned along the length of the drape cut to overlap at least a portion of the drape material on both sides of the drape cut to initially secure the two adjoining cut edges to each other. The scoreline extends along the length of the adhesive tape strip and only partially through the thickness of the adhesive tape strip to permit easy tearing of the adhesive tape strip for separation of the two adjoining cut edges.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.Inventor: Fred L. Allen
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Patent number: 9351795Abstract: A medical drape is disclosed. The drape comprises a main portion having a front side, a back side, a first edge, a second edge, a top, and a bottom. The first and second edges are positioned opposite one another. The top and the bottom are positioned opposite one other. The drape further comprises a first and a second fenestration extending completely through the main portion and spaced generally equidistant from a vertical axis. The vertical axis is generally parallel to the first and second edges. The drape further comprises a third and a fourth fenestration extending completely through the main portion and are spaced generally equidistant from the vertical axis. The first and second fenestrations are closer to the top than the third and fourth fenestrations.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2012Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.Inventors: Fred L. Allen, Francis A. Czajka, Eric G. Holcomb
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Publication number: 20130284187Abstract: A drape for use in cranial surgical procedures including a sterile sheet and a plurality of fluid-collection pouches surrounding a cranial region fenestration. The drape further includes a thoracic region fenestration for concurrent or directly subsequent thoracic surgical procedures. Advantageously, the drape allows for a superior aseptic surgical field and superior drainage facilitated by a multi-pouch configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: Debbie S. Esquivel, Fred L. Allen, Kimberly M. Haines, Angelique M. Trichak
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Patent number: 8424532Abstract: A drape for use in cranial surgical procedures including a sterile sheet and a plurality of fluid-collection reservoirs surrounding a cranial region fenestration. The drape further can include a thoracic region fenestration for concurrent or directly subsequent thoracic surgical procedures. Advantageously, the drape allows for a superior aseptic surgical field and superior drainage facilitated by a multi-pouch configuration.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.Inventors: Debbie S. Esquivel, Fred L. Allen, Kimberly M. Haines, Angelique M. Trichak
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Publication number: 20120312308Abstract: A medical drape has a tool-less removal feature and includes a drape material, a drape cut, an adhesive tape strip, and a scoreline. The drape material has a top side, a back side, and at least one exterior edge. The drape cut has a starting point at the exterior edge and extends completely through the thickness of the drape material. The adhesive tape strip is positioned along the length of the drape cut to overlap at least a portion of the drape material on both sides of the drape cut to initially secure the two adjoining cut edges to each other. The scoreline extends along the length of the adhesive tape strip and only partially through the thickness of the adhesive tape strip to permit easy tearing of the adhesive tape strip for separation of the two adjoining cut edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Inventor: Fred L. Allen
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Publication number: 20120097175Abstract: A medical drape is disclosed. The drape comprises a main portion having a front side, a back side, a first edge, a second edge, a top, and a bottom. The first and second edges are positioned opposite one another. The top and the bottom are positioned opposite one other. The drape further comprises a first and a second fenestration extending completely through the main portion and spaced generally equidistant from a vertical axis. The vertical axis is generally parallel to the first and second edges. The drape further comprises a third and a fourth fenestration extending completely through the main portion and are spaced generally equidistant from the vertical axis. The first and second fenestrations are closer to the top than the third and fourth fenestrations.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2012Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: Medline Industries, Inc.Inventors: Fred L. Allen, Francis A. Czajka, Eric G. Holcomb
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Publication number: 20120017921Abstract: A drape for use in cranial surgical procedures including a sterile sheet and a plurality of fluid-collection reservoirs surrounding a cranial region fenestration. The drape further can include a thoracic region fenestration for concurrent or directly subsequent thoracic surgical procedures. Advantageously, the drape allows for a superior aseptic surgical field and superior drainage facilitated by a multi-pouch configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Inventors: Debbie S. Esquivel, Fred L. Allen, Kimberly M. Haines, Angelique M. Trichak
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Patent number: 8100130Abstract: A medical drape is disclosed. The drape comprises a main portion having a front side, a back side, a first edge, a second edge, a top, and a bottom. The first and second edges are positioned opposite one another. The top and the bottom are positioned opposite one other. The drape further comprises a first and a second fenestration extending completely through the main portion and spaced generally equidistant from a vertical axis. The vertical axis is generally parallel to the first and second edges. The drape further comprises a third and a fourth fenestration extending completely through the main portion and are spaced generally equidistant from the vertical axis. The first and second fenestrations are closer to the top than the third and fourth fenestrations.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2006Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.Inventors: Fred L. Allen, Francis A. Czajka, Eric G. Holcomb
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Patent number: 7777102Abstract: This application is directed to novel soybean plant varieties, designated 5601TRR-292 (named ‘Allen’), 5601TRR-293, and 5601TRR-379. These varieties are glyphosate resistant cultivars, developed from BC3F2 single-plant derivatives of cultivar ‘5601T’. Also provided herein are seeds of the aforementioned soybean varieties, plants arising therefrom, plant parts of soybean varieties 5601TRR-292, 5601TRR-293, and 5601TRR-379 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing these soybean varieties with another soybean plant (as either the male or the female parent). The subject application also provides methods for introducing another transgenic trait or another genetic trait into the disclosed soybean varieties and soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2007Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: University of Tennessee Research FoundationInventors: Vincent R. Pantalone, Fred L. Allen, Deborah Landau-Ellis
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Publication number: 20100031966Abstract: A medical drape has a tool-less removal feature and includes a drape material, a drape cut, an adhesive tape strip, and a scoreline. The drape material has a top side, a back side, and at least one exterior edge. The drape cut has a starting point at the exterior edge and extends completely through the thickness of the drape material. The adhesive tape strip is positioned along the length of the drape cut to overlap at least a portion of the drape material on both sides of the drape cut to initially secure the two adjoining cut edges to each other. The scoreline extends along the length of the adhesive tape strip and only partially through the thickness of the adhesive tape strip to permit easy tearing of the adhesive tape strip for separation of the two adjoining cut edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2008Publication date: February 11, 2010Inventor: Fred L. Allen
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Publication number: 20080196119Abstract: This application is directed to novel soybean plant varieties, designated 5601TRR-292 (named ‘Allen’), 5601TRR-293, and 5601TRR-379. These varieties are glyphosate resistant cultivars, developed from BC3F2 single-plant derivatives of cultivar ‘5601T’. Also provided herein are seeds of the aforementioned soybean varieties, plants arising therefrom, plant parts of soybean varieties 5601TRR-292, 5601TRR-293, and 5601TRR-379 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing these soybean varieties with another soybean plant (as either the male or the female parent). The subject application also provides methods for introducing another transgenic trait or another genetic trait into the disclosed soybean varieties and soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2007Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: University fo Tennessee Research FoundationInventors: Vincent R. Pantalone, Fred L. Allen, Deborah Landau-Ellis
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Patent number: D693603Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.Inventors: Debbie S. Esquivel, Fred L. Allen, Kimberly M. Haines, Angelique M. Trichak
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Patent number: D742140Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Debbie S. Esquivel, Fred L. Allen, Kimberly M. Haines, Angelique M. Trichak