Patents by Inventor Grant Timothy Lewis Smetham

Grant Timothy Lewis Smetham 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).

  • Implant back-injecting device
    Patent number: 7798988
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for back injecting an implant (30) into the skin (22) of a subject, said device (1) include a hollow main body (10), to which a hollow needle (28) is fixed into which the implant (30) is introduced, a secondary body (12; 114) coaxially arranged inside the main body (10) and surrounding the needle (28) and a piston rod (88) able to slide coaxially inside said hollow needle (28) and whose position relative to said needle (28) remains unchanged when the back injection device (1) is pressed against the subject's skin (22) to allow the needle (28) to penetrate said subject's skin and when the secondary body (12) retracts inside the main body (10), the piston rod (88) penetrating the interior of the hollow needle (28) to hold the implant (30) at the required depth in the subject's skin (22) during withdrawal of the hollow needle (28) from the subject's skin (22), during which the secondary body (12; 114) exits the main body (10), characterized in that it includes means for the elasti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sociétéde Conseils de Recherches et d'Applications Scientifiques (S.C.R.A.S) SAS
    Inventors: Christophe Aubert, Roland Cherif-Cheikh, Thierry Rimlinger, Fabrice Bonacci, Serge Barneaud, Grant Timothy Lewis Smetham, Julian Richard Dixon, Matthew Egerton Young
  • Liquid sampler and method
    Patent number: 7547298
    Abstract: In a sampler for sampling a first portion of a liquid flow, the liquid flow enters at a sampler inlet (12). The sample passes through a valve (30) into a sample chamber (8) and then the valve closes, diverting the remainder of the liquid flow to a sampler overflow (6). The valve comprises a valve inlet (24) coupled to the sampler inlet, a valve outlet (38, 36) opening into the sample chamber and positioned, in use, substantially below the valve inlet, a shut-off chamber (32) separating the valve outlet from the valve inlet, and a valve overflow (34) leading from the shut-off chamber to the sampler overflow (6). When the liquid level in the sample chamber rises to a predetermined level it disrupts the flow of liquid through the valve outlet and diverts later flow through the valve inlet into the shut-off chamber and through the valve overflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Diagnostics for the Real World, Ltd.
    Inventors: Helen Hwai-an Lee, Grant Timothy Lewis Smetham, Phillip John Stankus, Shaun Christopher Hazlewood, Elipidio Cesar Braga Nadala, Craig Alan Wisniewski
  • Implant Back-Injecting Device
    Publication number: 20080249466
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for back injecting an implant (30) into the skin (22) of a subject, said device (1) include a hollow main body (10), to which a hollow needle (28) is fixed into which the implant (30) is introduced, a secondary body (12; 114) coaxially arranged inside the main body (10) and surrounding the needle (28) and a piston rod (88) able to slide coaxially inside said hollow needle (28) and whose position relative to said needle (28) remains unchanged when the back injection device (1) is pressed against the subject's skin (22) to allow the needle (28) to penetrate said subject's skin and when the secondary body (12) retracts inside the main body (10), the piston rod (88) penetrating the interior of the hollow needle (28) to hold the implant (30) at the required depth in the subject's skin (22) during withdrawal of the hollow needle (28) from the subject's skin (22), during which the secondary body (12; 114) exits the main body (10), characterized in that it includes means for the elasti
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: S.C.R.A.S.
    Inventors: Christophe Aubert, Roland Cherif-Cheikh, Thierry Rimlinger, Fabrice Bonacci, Serge Barneaud, Grant Timothy Lewis Smetham, Julian Richard Dixon, Matthew Egerton Young
  • Heat recovery unit
    Patent number: D510761
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Vent-Axia Limited
    Inventors: Phillip John Stankus, Grant Timothy Lewis Smetham
  • Container for medical purposes
    Patent number: D746045
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventor: Grant Timothy Lewis Smetham