Patents by Inventor Kevin Hopper

Kevin Hopper 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: 12017051
    Abstract: An injection device includes a lower housing, a needle guard and an upper housing. With the upper housing in a pre-use position and the needle guard in a first position, an abutment body of an arm of the upper housing abuts a catch of the lower housing, preventing the upper housing from moving distally relative to the lower housing toward a dispensed position. Proximal movement of the needle guard from the first position to a second position thereof causes proximal movement of a camming ramp of a leg of the needle guard with respect to the catch and the abutment body such that the camming ramp engages the arm, thereby deflecting the abutment body radially outwardly by a distance sufficient to allow the abutment body to pass radially outside of the catch, and, in turn, permits the distal movement of the upper housing into the dispensed position of the upper housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Hopper
  • Publication number: 20220331525
    Abstract: An injection device includes a lower housing, a needle guard and an upper housing. With the upper housing in a pre-use position and the needle guard in a first position, an abutment body of an arm of the upper housing abuts a catch of the lower housing, preventing the upper housing from moving distally relative to the lower housing toward a dispensed position. Proximal movement of the needle guard from the first position to a second position thereof causes proximal movement of a camming ramp of a leg of the needle guard with respect to the catch and the abutment body such that the camming ramp engages the arm, thereby deflecting the abutment body radially outwardly by a distance sufficient to allow the abutment body to pass radially outside of the catch, and, in turn, permits distal movement of the upper housing into the dispensed position of the upper housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventor: Kevin HOPPER
  • Patent number: 10643744
    Abstract: A method of detecting and/or tracking use of a drug delivery device is disclosed. The drug delivery device includes a machine readable code and a visual indicator, and has pre-use and used states, such that use of the drug delivery device triggers a transition from the pre-use to the used state. The visual indicator has a first state when the drug delivery device is in the pre-use state and a different second state when the drug delivery device is in the used state. The method includes enabling a user device having an image sensor to capture an image of the drug delivery device, determining, by the user device processor from the captured image, whether the visual indicator of the drug delivery device is in the second state, and obtaining, by the processor, information from the machine readable code when the visual indicator is determined to be in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Hopper, Stacy Faught, Christopher Evans, Brian Costello, Raymond Protasiewicz
  • Publication number: 20190341136
    Abstract: A method of detecting and/or tracking use of a drug delivery device is disclosed. The drug delivery device includes a machine readable code and a visual indicator, and has pre-use and used states, such that use of the drug delivery device triggers a transition from the pre-use to the used state. The visual indicator has a first state when the drug delivery device is in the pre-use state and a different second state when the drug delivery device is in the used state. The method includes enabling a user device having an image sensor to capture an image of the drug delivery device, determining, by the user device processor from the captured image, whether the visual indicator of the drug delivery device is in the second state, and obtaining, by the processor, information from the machine readable code when the visual indicator is determined to be in the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Kevin HOPPER, Stacy FAUGHT, Christopher EVANS, Brian COSTELLO, Raymond PROTASIEWICZ
  • Patent number: D841157
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: WEST PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Kevin Hopper
  • Patent number: D841158
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: WEST PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Kevin Hopper
  • Patent number: D841805
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: WEST PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Kevin Hopper
  • Patent number: D919086
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ran Hezkiahu, William David Gavin, Kevin Hopper
  • Patent number: D919800
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: WEST PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES, INC
    Inventors: Ran Hezkiahu, William David Gavin, Kevin Hopper
  • Patent number: D919801
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: WEST PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Ran Hezkiahu, William David Gavin, Kevin Hopper
  • Patent number: D919802
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ran Hezkiahu, William David Gavin, Kevin Hopper
  • Patent number: D948715
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ran Hezkiahu, Kevin Hopper