Patents by Inventor Kris R. Holtzclaw

Kris R. Holtzclaw 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).

  • Publication number: 20210205536
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves determining a current value for a physiological condition of the user influenced by the fluid violates a first threshold value, determining a predicted value for the physiological condition of the user violates a second threshold value, and automatically altering operation of the infusion device to modify delivery of the fluid to the user after determining the predicted value violates the second threshold value when the current value violates the first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Cesar C. Palerm, Louis J. Lintereur, Salman Monirabbasi, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Lane Desborough
  • Patent number: 10960136
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves determining a current value for a physiological condition of the user influenced by the fluid violates a first threshold value, determining a predicted value for the physiological condition of the user violates a second threshold value, and automatically altering operation of the infusion device to modify delivery of the fluid to the user after determining the predicted value violates the second threshold value when the current value violates the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Cesar C. Palerm, Louis J. Lintereur, Salman Monirabbasi, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Lane Desborough
  • Patent number: 10525200
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves obtaining a sequence of measurements indicative of a condition of the user that is influenced by the fluid and modifying one or more unusable measurements in the sequence using one or more other usable measurements in the sequence to obtain a modified sequence of measurements. The method continues by determining a predicted value for the condition of the user at a time in the future based at least in part on the modified sequence of measurements and operating the infusion device in a manner that is influenced by the predicted value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Cesar C. Palerm, Louis J. Lintereur, Salman Monirabbasi, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Lane Desborough
  • Publication number: 20190015590
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves determining a current value for a physiological condition of the user influenced by the fluid violates a first threshold value, determining a predicted value for the physiological condition of the user violates a second threshold value, and automatically altering operation of the infusion device to modify delivery of the fluid to the user after determining the predicted value violates the second threshold value when the current value violates the first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Cesar C. Palerm, Louis J. Lintereur, Salman Monirabbasi, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Lane Desborough
  • Patent number: 10105488
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves determining a current value for a physiological condition of the user influenced by the fluid violates a first threshold value, determining a predicted value for the physiological condition of the user violates a second threshold value, and automatically altering operation of the infusion device to modify delivery of the fluid to the user after determining the predicted value violates the second threshold value when the current value violates the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Cesar C. Palerm, Louis J. Lintereur, Salman Monirabbasi, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Lane Desborough
  • Publication number: 20180071456
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves obtaining a sequence of measurements indicative of a condition of the user that is influenced by the fluid and modifying one or more unusable measurements in the sequence using one or more other usable measurements in the sequence to obtain a modified sequence of measurements. The method continues by determining a predicted value for the condition of the user at a time in the future based at least in part on the modified sequence of measurements and operating the infusion device in a manner that is influenced by the predicted value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Cesar C. Palerm, Louis J. Lintereur, Salman Monirabbasi, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Lane Desborough
  • Patent number: 9849240
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves obtaining a sequence of measurements indicative of a condition of the user that is influenced by the fluid and modifying one or more unusable measurements in the sequence using one or more other usable measurements in the sequence to obtain a modified sequence of measurements. The method continues by determining a predicted value for the condition of the user at a time in the future based at least in part on the modified sequence of measurements and operating the infusion device in a manner that is influenced by the predicted value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Cesar C. Palerm, Louis J. Lintereur, Salman Monirabbasi, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Lane Desborough
  • Publication number: 20160262671
    Abstract: A system to monitor and transmit a plurality of signals based on a characteristic of a user is disclosed. The system comprises a sensor to produce the plurality of signals on a continuous basis, the signals being indicative of a glucose characteristic measured in the user when a portion of the sensor is placed in subcutaneous tissue. The system further includes a recorder including a recorder port to physically couple and interface with a sensor port of the sensor and a dock remotely located from the sensor and the recorder. The dock includes a dock receiver to physically couple and interface with the recorder port. The recorder can record the signals produced from the sensor when the recorder is coupled to the sensor and the recorder can transmit the stored signals to the dock when the recorder is removed from the sensor and coupled to the dock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Villegas, Henry C. Sanders, Greg Bowden, Cary Talbot, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Hans K. Wenstad, Gary Cohen, Brian T. Kannard, Keith E. DeBrunner, Joseph Makram Arsanious, Fan Meng, Andrew Michael Bryan, Ulrich H. Rankers
  • Publication number: 20150164323
    Abstract: A patient monitor/infusion system is disclosed. The monitor/infusion system includes a medical device having a first machine parsable code and a medical device transmitter, configured to broadcast encrypted data indicative of a characteristic of the user. The monitor/infusion system further includes a mobile device with a plurality of sensors to capture the first machine parsable code. The mobile device further having a receiver to receive encrypted data broadcast by the medical device and at least one of the plurality of sensors enables out-of-band pairing between the mobile device and the medical device via the first machine parsable code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventor: Kris R. Holtzclaw
  • Publication number: 20150165117
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves determining a current value for a physiological condition of the user influenced by the fluid violates a first threshold value, determining a predicted value for the physiological condition of the user violates a second threshold value, and automatically altering operation of the infusion device to modify delivery of the fluid to the user after determining the predicted value violates the second threshold value when the current value violates the first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Cesar C. Palerm, Louis J. Lintereur, Salman Monirabbasi, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Lane Desborough
  • Publication number: 20150165119
    Abstract: Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a user involves obtaining a sequence of measurements indicative of a condition of the user that is influenced by the fluid and modifying one or more unusable measurements in the sequence using one or more other usable measurements in the sequence to obtain a modified sequence of measurements. The method continues by determining a predicted value for the condition of the user at a time in the future based at least in part on the modified sequence of measurements and operating the infusion device in a manner that is influenced by the predicted value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Cesar C. Palerm, Louis J. Lintereur, Salman Monirabbasi, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Lane Desborough
  • Patent number: 8550997
    Abstract: A monitor system is disclosed. The monitor system includes a sensor with a sensor port. The monitor system further includes a recorder with a recorder port within a recording housing. The recorder port interfaces with the sensor port to receive signals from the sensor port. A recorder clock is defined within the recorder housing, with a recorder processor to store signals from the sensor. The recorder includes a data port to interface with a dock receiver. The monitor system includes a dock remotely located from the sensor and the recorder. The dock receiver couples the recorder to the dock. The monitor system further includes a data processor to analyze the sensor signals from the recorder. The data processor includes memory and a clock. Further included with the data processor are program instructions to assign the time and date of the sensor signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Medtronic Minimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Cary Talbot, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Hans K. Wenstad, Gary Cohen, Brian T. Kannard, Keith E. DeBrunner, Joseph Makram Arsanious, Fan Meng, Andrew Michael Bryan, Ulrich H. Rankers
  • Publication number: 20120238849
    Abstract: An infusion set component for a fluid infusion device that delivers fluid to a patient is presented here. The component includes a tube formed from tubing material having an interior fluid canal defined therein to provide a fluid pathway from the fluid infusion device to the patient, a plurality of sensor conductors incorporated with the tubing material to facilitate sensing of an analyte of the patient by the fluid infusion device, and a combined infusion-sensor unit coupled to the tube and to the plurality of sensor conductors. The infusion-sensor unit accommodates delivery of fluid from the tube, and it also accommodates sensing of the analyte. The component may also include a connector assembly coupled to the tube and to the plurality of sensor conductors, to fluidly couple the fluid canal to a fluid reservoir of the fluid infusion device and to electrically couple the sensor conductors to an electronics module of the fluid infusion device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Kris R. HOLTZCLAW, Fan MENG
  • Patent number: 8160834
    Abstract: The invention disclosed herein provides methods and materials for observing the state of a sensor, for example those used by diabetic patients to monitor blood glucose levels. Typically a voltage such as a voltage pulse is applied to the sensor in order to solicit a current response from which for example, factors such as impedance values can be derived. Such values can then be used as indicators of a sensor's state, for example the state of sensor hydration, sensor noise, sensor offset, sensor drift or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Chi Liang, Larry E. Tyler, Mohsen Askarinya, Charles R. Gordon, Randal C. Schulhauser, Kenneth W. Cooper, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Brian T. Kannard, Rajiv Shah
  • Publication number: 20110230741
    Abstract: The invention disclosed herein provides methods and materials for observing the state of a sensor, for example those used by diabetic patients to monitor blood glucose levels. Typically a voltage such as a voltage pulse is applied to the sensor in order to solicit a current response from which for example, factors such as impedance values can be derived. Such values can then be used as indicators of a sensor's state, for example the state of sensor hydration, sensor noise, sensor offset, sensor drift or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Bradley Chi Liang, Larry E. Tyler, Mohsen Askarinya, Charles Robert Gordon, Randal C. Schulhauser, Kenneth W. Cooper, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Brian T. Kannard, Rajiv Shah
  • Publication number: 20110160553
    Abstract: A monitor system to monitor a characteristic of a user is disclosed. The monitor system includes a sensor to produce a signal indicative of a glucose characteristic measured in the user, the sensor further having a sensor port. The monitor system further includes a recorder within a recording housing, the recorder hosing also encompassing a batter. The recorder further includes a recorder port that interfaces with the sensor port in order to receive the produced signals from the sensor port. A recorder clock that assigns a time to the signals from the sensor is also defined within the recorder housing, as is a recorder processor that includes a recorder memory that is coupled to the recorder port to store the produced signals from the sensor. The recorder further includes a data port defined to interface with a dock receiver. A dock that is remotely located from the sensor and the recorder is also included with the monitor system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Cary Talbot, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Hans K. Wanstad, Gary Cohen, Brian T. Kannard, Keith E. DeBrunner, Joseph Makram Arsanious, Fan Meng, Andrew Michael Bryan, Ulrich H. Rankers
  • Publication number: 20100169035
    Abstract: The invention disclosed herein provides methods and materials for observing the state of a sensor, for example those used by diabetic patients to monitor blood glucose levels. Typically a voltage such as a voltage pulse is applied to the sensor in order to solicit a current response from which for example, factors such as impedance values can be derived. Such values can then be used as indicators of a sensor's state, for example the state of sensor hydration, sensor noise, sensor offset, sensor drift or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Chi Liang, Larry E. Tyler, Mohsen Askarinya, Charles Robert Gordon, Randal C. Schulhauser, Kenneth W. Cooper, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Brian T. Kannard, Rajiv Shah
  • Publication number: 20100010330
    Abstract: A monitor device for a fluid infusion system and its operating, display, and data processing characteristics are described herein. One embodiment of the monitor device is used in an insulin infusion system having an insulin infusion pump and a continuous glucose sensor transmitter. The monitor device is configured as a wireless bedside monitor that wirelessly receives status data from a device in the fluid infusion system, such as the infusion pump or the sensor transmitter. The monitor device supports a number of user interface features, alarm/alert features, and graphical display features, where such features enhance the overall operation and user-friendliness of the monitor device. For example, the monitor device can generate status icons that graphically indicate the time remaining for an exhaustible operating quantity of a device in the infusion system (e.g., a battery charge, a fluid reservoir volume, or a calibration or replacement period).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Ulrich Rankers, Bradley J. Enegren, Rebecca K. Gottlieb, Jino Han, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Peter I. Hong, Emilian Istoc, John J. Mastrototaro, Sheldon B. Moberg, Cary Talbot, Gary L. Williams, Arieh S. Halpern
  • Publication number: 20080300572
    Abstract: A monitor device for a fluid infusion system and its operating, display, and data processing characteristics are described herein. One embodiment of the monitor device is used in an insulin infusion system having an insulin infusion pump and a continuous glucose sensor transmitter. The monitor device is configured as a wireless bedside monitor that wirelessly receives status data from a device in the fluid infusion system, such as the infusion pump or the sensor transmitter. The monitor device supports a number of user interface features, alarm/alert features, and graphical display features, where such features enhance the overall operation and user-friendliness of the monitor device. For example, the monitor device can generate status icons that graphically indicate the time remaining for an exhaustible operating quantity of a device in the infusion system (e.g., a battery charge, a fluid reservoir volume, or a calibration or replacement period).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Ulrich Rankers, Bradley J. Enegren, Rebecca K. Gottlieb, Jino Han, Kris R. Holtzclaw, Peter I. Hong, Emilian Istoc, John J. Mastrototaro, Sheldon B. Moberg, Cary Talbot, Gary L. Williams, Arieh S. Halpern
  • Publication number: 20070255348
    Abstract: A fluid infusion system as described herein includes a number of local “body network” devices, such as an infusion pump, a handheld monitor or controller, a physiological sensor, and a bedside or hospital monitor. The body network devices can be configured to support communication of status data, physiological information, alerts, control signals, and other information between one another. In addition, the body network devices can be configured to support networked communication of status data, physiological information, alerts, control signals, and other information between the body network devices and “external” devices, systems, or communication networks. Such external communication allows the infusion system to be extended beyond the traditional short-range user environment. One particular system embodiment includes a network router device that functions as a centralized storage, processing, and routing unit for data received from the body network devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Inventor: Kris R. Holtzclaw