Patents by Inventor Jacob Kearns

Jacob Kearns 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).

  • Patent number: 11969576
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods incorporating an infusion pump and a CGM that can include software that automatically populates a blood glucose section of a bolus calculator with a most recent valid CGM value. The software can additionally be programmed to automatically populate the bolus calculator with a single CGM reading only when one or more predefined conditions are met that aid in mitigating the risk of inaccurate and/or invalid single CGM readings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Michaud, Garrett Marin, Geoffrey A. Kruse, Jacob Kearns, Thomas R. Ulrich, Trevor Denbo, David Berger
  • Publication number: 20240087698
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system and methods for organizing diabetes therapy data from different devices and across time changes that enable user analysis and visualization in a way that incorporates the changes in user time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Larkin Lowrey, Beau Randall, Tobias Lohse, Shaun Buchanan, Xavier de Anda, Jacob Kearns
  • Patent number: 11830595
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system and methods for organizing diabetes therapy data from different devices and across time changes that enable user analysis and visualization in a way that incorporates the changes in user time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Larkin Lowrey, Beau Randall, Tobias Lohse, Shaun Buchanan, Xavier de Anda, Jacob Kearns
  • Patent number: 11654236
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for mitigating the risk of insulin stacking in automated insulin delivery systems. In AID systems configured to both automatically calculate insulin delivery based on glucose levels and receive manual programming of meal boluses configured to counteract carbohydrates in a meal, insulin stacking can result if the system automatically increases insulin delivery based on a rise in glucose levels in response to consumption of a meal and the user later programs a meal bolus for the meal. The risk of such double dosing is mitigated by the systems and methods disclosed herein by enabling the system to account for recent automated insulin increases when a meal bolus is programmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Kearns, Michael Michaud, Geoffrey A. Kruse, Thomas R. Ulrich, Paul Harris, Scott Leas, Betsy Dokken, Garrett Marin, Nicholas Sherer
  • Publication number: 20220344017
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system and methods for organizing diabetes therapy data from different devices and across time changes that enable user analysis and visualization in a way that incorporates the changes in user time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Larkin Lowrey, Beau Randall, Tobias Lohse, Shaun Buchanan, Xavier de Anda, Jacob Kearns
  • Publication number: 20210154405
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for mitigating the risk of insulin stacking in automated insulin delivery systems. In AID systems configured to both automatically calculate insulin delivery based on glucose levels and receive manual programming of meal boluses configured to counteract carbohydrates in a meal, insulin stacking can result if the system automatically increases insulin delivery based on a rise in glucose levels in response to consumption of a meal and the user later programs a meal bolus for the meal. The risk of such double dosing is mitigated by the systems and methods disclosed herein by enabling the system to account for recent automated insulin increases when a meal bolus is programmed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Jacob Kearns, Michael Michaud, Geoffrey A. Kruse, Thomas R. Ulrich, Paul Harris, Scott Leas, Betsy Dokken, Garrett Marin, Nicholas Sherer
  • Publication number: 20210113766
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods incorporating an ambulatory infusion pump and a CGM. These systems that can include software and related methods to provide improved automated insulin delivery algorithms that enable the algorithms to safely continue delivering insulin for some time periods of missing or known inaccurate glucose values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Jacob Kearns, Michael Michaud, Geoffrey A. Kruse, Garrett Marin, Paul Harris, Thomas R. Ulrich, Brendan Nichols
  • Publication number: 20210001044
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods incorporating an infusion pump and a CGM that can include software that automatically populates a blood glucose section of a bolus calculator with a most recent valid CGM value. The software can additionally be programmed to automatically populate the bolus calculator with a single CGM reading only when one or more predefined conditions are met that aid in mitigating the risk of inaccurate and/or invalid single CGM readings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Michaud, Garrett Marin, Geoffrey A. Kruse, Jacob Kearns, Thomas R. Ulrich, Trevor Denbo, David Berger
  • Publication number: 20200253563
    Abstract: A method for performing a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure on a partial occlusion within a blood vessel, includes positioning a guide having a sensor configured and adapted to measure at least one of pressure, volume or flow within a blood vessel, advancing the guide through an at least partial occlusion within the blood vessel such that the sensor is downstream of the occlusion, measuring at least one of pressure, volume or flow downstream of the occlusion using the sensor and analyzing data obtained from the sensor to assist in determining the viability of tissue of the blood vessel downstream of the occlusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Folk, Jacob Kearns
  • Patent number: 10674966
    Abstract: A method for performing a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure on a partial occlusion within a blood vessel, includes positioning a guide having a sensor configured and adapted to measure at least one of pressure, volume or flow within a blood vessel, advancing the guide through an at least partial occlusion within the blood vessel such that the sensor is downstream of the occlusion, measuring at least one of pressure, volume or flow downstream of the occlusion using the sensor and analyzing data obtained from the sensor to assist in determining the viability of tissue of the blood vessel downstream of the occlusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Christopher Folk, Jacob Kearns
  • Publication number: 20160022222
    Abstract: A method for performing a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure on a partial occlusion within a blood vessel, includes positioning a guide having a sensor configured and adapted to measure at least one of pressure, volume or flow within a blood vessel, advancing the guide through an at least partial occlusion within the blood vessel such that the sensor is downstream of the occlusion, measuring at least one of pressure, volume or flow downstream of the occlusion using the sensor and analyzing data obtained from the sensor to assist in determining the viability of tissue of the blood vessel downstream of the occlusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher Folk, Jacob Kearns
  • Patent number: 8403875
    Abstract: In a blood therapy apparatus having a load cell sensor and a coupler for securing a load, a bag thereon is characterized by a free hanging link hanging from the coupler, and a bag hanger comprising an elongated rod having a plurality of bag engaging hooks and upwardly extending hook secured at the weight center of the rod and freely hanging from the links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: B. Braun Avitum AG
    Inventors: Harold Peters, Adam Heintzelman, Jacob Kearns, Tommy Cooper
  • Patent number: 8328750
    Abstract: A panel assembly for being manually mounted on a blood therapy apparatus is characterized by three panels, a center panel configured for manually securing a hemofilter cartridge and opposite side panels, hingedly connected to the center panel. The side panels have generally flat, planar interior surfaces defined by a rim extending around its perimeter. Tubing is secured along and adjacent to the interior panel surfaces, which are also provided with tubing supports having slanted tubing channels for supporting arched pump rotor engaging tubing sections and prevent tubing droop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: B. Braun Avitum AG
    Inventors: Harold Peters, Adam Heintzelman, Jacob Kearns, Tommy Cooper
  • Patent number: 8323482
    Abstract: An extracorporeal blood therapy control unit housing has a first and second manually mounted panels and spring loaded components configured for releasably engaging and tensioning the said panels against a side of said housing. The first and second panels have arch-shaped tubing segments mounted on the interior side of said respective panels. Each of the tubing segments are held in operational engagement with a different peristaltic pump rotor by the panel engaging and tensioning components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: B. Braun Avitum AG
    Inventors: Harold Peters, Adam Heintzelman, Jacob Kearns, Tommy Cooper
  • Patent number: 8298167
    Abstract: An apparatus for carrying out selected fluid management and/or renal replacement patient therapy is characterized by an interactive operator control system having operator inputs for selectively changing a panel kit, replacing a filter cartridge, and/or changing to a different patient therapy during a currently running patient therapy, and providing operator instructions for carrying out tasks for completing same. In one embodiment, the interactive operator control system is also characterized by automatically serially identifying different setup steps to be carried out during system setup, displaying the successive steps substantially throughout the system setup as well as displaying on the operator interface screen sequential tasks to be carried out for each of the different setup steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: B. Braun Avitum AG
    Inventors: Harold Peters, Adam Heintzelman, Jacob Kearns, Tommy Cooper, Michael Delmage
  • Publication number: 20100121246
    Abstract: An apparatus for carrying out selected fluid management and/or renal replacement patient therapy is characterized by an interactive operator control system having operator inputs for selectively changing a panel kit, replacing a filter cartridge, and/or changing to a different patient therapy during a currently running patient therapy, and providing operator instructions for carrying out tasks for completing same. In one embodiment, the interactive operator control system is also characterized by automatically serially identifying different setup steps to be carried out during system setup, displaying the successive steps substantially throughout the system setup as well as displaying on the operator interface screen sequential tasks to be carried out for each of the different setup steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: TRANSVIVO INC.
    Inventors: Harold Peters, Adam Heintzelman, Jacob Kearns, Tommy Cooper, Michael Delmage
  • Publication number: 20100089806
    Abstract: An extracorporeal blood therapy control unit housing has a first and second manually mounted panels and spring loaded components configured for releasably engaging and tensioning the said panels against a side of said housing. The first and second panels have arch-shaped tubing segments mounted on the interior side of said respective panels. Each of the tubing segments are held in operational engagement with a different peristaltic pump rotor by the panel engaging and tensioning components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: TRANSVIVO INC.
    Inventors: Harold Peters, Adam Heintzelman, Jacob Kearns, Tommy Cooper
  • Publication number: 20100094194
    Abstract: In a blood therapy apparatus having a load cell sensor and a coupler for securing a load, a bag thereon is characterized by a free hanging link hanging from the coupler, and a bag hanger comprising an elongated rod having a plurality of bag engaging hooks and upwardly extending hook secured at the weight center of the rod and freely hanging from the links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: TRANSVIVO INC.
    Inventors: Harold Peters, Adam Heintzelman, Jacob Kearns, Tommy Cooper
  • Publication number: 20100094192
    Abstract: A panel assembly for being manually mounted on a blood therapy apparatus is characterized by three panels, a center panel configured for manually securing a hemofilter cartridge and opposite side panels, hingedly connected to the center panel. The side panels have generally flat, planar interior surfaces defined by a rim extending around its perimeter. Tubing is secured along and adjacent to the interior panel surfaces, which are also provided with tubing supports having slanted tubing channels for supporting arched pump rotor engaging tubing sections and prevent tubing droop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: TRANSVIVO INC.
    Inventors: Harold Peters, Adam Heintzelman, Jacob Kearns, Tommy Cooper
  • Publication number: 20070023353
    Abstract: A plasmapheresis and/or ultrafiltration membrane comprises elongated hollow fibers each fiber having an interior lumen extending along the fiber length, the fiber wall having a plurality of zones between the inner and outer wall surfaces, each of the zones having a mass density different than the mass density of an adjacent zone. The fiber wall is characterized by having a lower mass density zone at the inner wall surface and a higher mass density zone at the outer wall surface. The fiber is further characterized by having an average elongation breaking force strength of at least about 0.2 lbs. and an average elongation of at least about 45%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Reynolds Gorsuch, Henry Grage, Harold Handley, Harold Peters, Jacob Kearns