Patents by Inventor James E. Lumpp, Jr.

James E. Lumpp, Jr. 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).

  • Programmable multi-dose intranasal drug delivery device
    Patent number: 6948492
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for the self-administration of a plurality of doses of an intranasal liquid pharmaceutical composition, including opioid analgesics, that includes a drug delivery device containing a plurality of sealed vials, each vial containing a predetermined volume of the pharmaceutical composition, a pump assembly for conveying the liquid pharmaceutical composition from the interior of the vial and discharging it as a nasal spray in response to manual activation by the patient, and programmable means for sequentially advancing a vial to the ready position after passage of a prescribed time interval following the last activation of the delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    Inventors: Daniel P. Wermeling, Ryan Vallance, Aravind Balasubramaniam, Bruce Lanier Walcott, John Alan Main, James E. Lumpp, Jr.