Patents by Inventor Jonathan M. Wyler
Jonathan M. Wyler 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: 8197503Abstract: A lancing device including a rail having opposed side surfaces, a lancet that is receivable on the rail, and a firing mechanism configured to propel the lancet. The lancet has a sharp tip and a body configured to engage the opposed side surfaces of the rail.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.Inventors: Jonathan M. Wyler, Ray Adams Lathrop, John Andrew Trissel, David Buenger
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Patent number: 8192454Abstract: Lancing devices are disclosed having a carriage slidably disposed within the housing and a lancet carrier configured to directly receive and hold the lancet. The lancet carrier is engaged within the carriage and movable relative to and independently of the carriage between a forward incision position and a rearward cocked position. A trigger assembly has a user accessible first portion and a second portion attached to the carriage and movable with the carriage along the longitudinal axis. The second portion is configured to maintain the lancet carrier in the rearward cocked position and the first portion is configured to release the lancet carrier from the rearward cocked position.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignees: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc., Facet Technologies, LLCInventors: Stephen J. Flynn, John Andrew Trissel, Ray Adams Lathrop, Samuel Mason Curry, Jonathan M. Wyler
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Patent number: 8123772Abstract: Caps and cap assemblies for lancing devices with adjustable modes of use are disclosed herein. In accordance with some embodiments of the invention, an adjustable cap assembly for a lancing device having a housing is disclosed. The assembly comprises at least one cap comprising a cap body with a skin-engaging end that defines a piercing aperture, an end opposite the skin-engaging end configured to removably engage an end of the housing and a lancet receiver within the cap body and configured to receive a lancet. The at least one cap is configured to adjust a penetration depth of the lancet with axial movement of the cap relative to the housing and to adjust an effective size of the piercing aperture with the lancet receiver.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2008Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.Inventors: Samuel Mason Curry, Jonathan M. Wyler
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Publication number: 20110282375Abstract: Lancets and methods of use are provided. Embodiments include lancets including a sleeve mounted to an elongated body having a needle terminating in a sharp tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicants: FACET TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.Inventors: Ray Adams Lathrop, John Andrew Trissel, Stephen J. Flynn, Kevin Young, Samuel Mason Curry, Jonathan M. Wyler, John Galasso, Vincent DiPalma, Damien Vizcarra, Maiya Shur
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Patent number: 8016848Abstract: Lancets and methods of use are provided. Embodiments include lancets including a sleeve mounted to an elongated body having a needle terminating in a sharp tip.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2007Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignees: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc., Facet Technologies, LLCInventors: Ray Adams Lathrop, John Andrew Trissel, Stephen J. Flynn, Kevin Young, Samuel Mason Curry, Jonathan M. Wyler, John Galasso, Vincent DiPalma, Damien Vizcarra, Maiya Shur
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Publication number: 20110144684Abstract: Lancing devices are disclosed having a carriage slidably disposed within the housing and a lancet carrier configured to directly receive and hold the lancet. The lancet carrier is engaged within the carriage and movable relative to and independently of the carriage between a forward incision position and a rearward cocked position. A trigger assembly has a user accessible first portion and a second portion attached to the carriage and movable with the carriage along the longitudinal axis. The second portion is configured to maintain the lancet carrier in the rearward cocked position and the first portion is configured to release the lancet carrier from the rearward cocked position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2011Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicants: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC., FACET TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Stephen J. Flynn, John Andrew Trissel, Ray Adams Lathrop, Samuel Mason Curry, Jonathan M. Wyler
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Patent number: 7955348Abstract: Lancing devices for use with removable lancets having sharp tips are provided. Embodiments include an interlock within the housing that blocks insertion of the lancet when the device is already cocked.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2007Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignees: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc., Facet Technologies, LLCInventors: John Andrew Trissel, Ray Adams Lathrop, Stephen J. Flynn, Samuel Mason Curry, Jonathan M. Wyler, Bradley Koeppel
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Patent number: 7914547Abstract: Lancing devices and methods of use are provided. Also provided are lancets for use with lancing devices. Certain embodiments of the lancing devices include a front end cap with an annular skin-engaging surface surrounding a piercing aperture.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignees: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc., Facet Technologies, LLCInventors: Samuel Mason Curry, John Andrew Trissel, Ray Adams Lathrop, Stephen J. Flynn, Kevin Young, Jonathan M. Wyler, Damien Vizcarra, Maiya Shur
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Patent number: 7909842Abstract: Lancing devices are provided for use with a lancet. The lancing device includes a housing and a carriage assembly slidably disposed within the housing. A depth adjustment mechanism is coupled to the carriage to move the carriage and lancet carrier forward and backward in response to user movement of the depth adjustment mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignees: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc., Facet Technologies, LLCInventors: Stephen J. Flynn, John Andrew Trissel, Ray Adams Lathrop, Samuel Mason Curry, Jonathan M. Wyler
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Publication number: 20100042128Abstract: Caps and cap assemblies for lancing devices with adjustable modes of use are disclosed herein. In accordance with some embodiments of the invention, an adjustable cap assembly for a lancing device having a housing is disclosed. The assembly comprises at least one cap comprising a cap body with a skin-engaging end that defines a piercing aperture, an end opposite the skin-engaging end configured to removably engage an end of the housing and a lancet receiver within the cap body and configured to receive a lancet. The at least one cap is configured to adjust a penetration depth of the lancet with axial movement of the cap relative to the housing and to adjust an effective size of the piercing aperture with the lancet receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2008Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.Inventors: Samuel Mason Curry, Jonathan M. Wyler
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Publication number: 20100042130Abstract: A lancet device is provided with stackable features to carry a plurality of lancets as a single unit. The lancet device includes a lancet body with a sharp tip at one end for drawing a sample of blood. The lancet body has opposing sides with projections on one of the opposing sides and depressions on the other opposing side. The projections and depressions are configured such that projections on one lancet body securely engages into the depressions of an adjacent lancet body providing a stacked formation. As an alternate, the plurality of lancets can be housed in an elongated member so that the plurality of lancets can be transported as a single unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2008Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.Inventors: Samuel Mason Curry, Jonathan M. Wyler
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Publication number: 20100042132Abstract: A lancing device including a rail having opposed side surfaces, a lancet that is receivable on the rail, and a firing mechanism configured to propel the lancet. The lancet has a sharp tip and a body configured to engage the opposed side surfaces of the rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2008Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.Inventors: Jonathan M. Wyler, Ray Adams Lathrop, John Andrew Trissel, David Buenger
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Publication number: 20080077167Abstract: Lancing devices are provided for use with a lancet. The lancing device includes a housing and a carriage assembly slidably disposed within the housing. A depth adjustment mechanism is coupled to the carriage to move the carriage and lancet carrier forward and backward in response to user movement of the depth adjustment mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2007Publication date: March 27, 2008Applicant: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.Inventors: Stephen J. Flynn, John Andrew Trissel, Ray Adams Lathrop, Samuel Mason Curry, Jonathan M. Wyler
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Publication number: 20080065132Abstract: Lancing devices for use with removable lancets having sharp tips are provided. Embodiments include an interlock within the housing that blocks insertion of the lancet when the device is already cocked.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2007Publication date: March 13, 2008Applicant: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.Inventors: John Andrew Trissel, Ray Adams Lathrop, Stephen J. Flynn, Samuel Mason Curry, Jonathan M. Wyler, Bradley Koeppel