Patents by Inventor Lauren Blume

Lauren Blume 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: 20210085443
    Abstract: An acellular dermal matrix (ADM) graft product includes an ADM graft derived from full-thickness skin, with a pre-formed shape having a mesh pattern formed therein. The ADM graft is disposed in a sterilization package and irradiated to provide a two year shelf-life for the ADM graft product, which is used in the time-saving, efficient, and effective surgical reconstruction of soft tissue defects. One manufacturing method involves providing a portion of full-thickness donor-derived skin, removing an epidermis and a fat layer form the portion of the skin, decellularizing the portion of the skin to form a portion of ADM graft material, pre-shaping and meshing the ADM graft material, verifying a thickness of the ADM graft material, and packaging the pre-shaped, meshed ADM graft material in a sterilizable package and irradiating for a two-year shelf-life to form the ADM graft product. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ergun Kocak, Lauren Blume, Jeffrey Chiesa, Kenneth Blood, Reginald Stilwell
  • Publication number: 20190351102
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the automated demineralization of bone and decellularization of soft tissue include a mixing assembly communicatively coupled with a control and reporting system. The mixing assembly includes a housing that supports a cannister sub-assembly forming a mixing chamber having a reagent inlet, a reagent outlet, and an internal fluid agitator. A motor is operably coupled with the agitator and configured to spin the agitator in first and second directions relative to the cannister, thereby agitating fluid contained within the mixing chamber. At least one pump is configured to progressively inject measured quantities of a plurality of reagents into the mixing chamber. The associated control and reporting system includes a user terminal that displays a graphical user interface enabling a user to initiate an automated demineralization or decellularization procedure in which the mixing assembly demineralizes tissue placed within the mixing chamber. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Aidan Griffin, Tim Bennett, Joslynn Shamis, Luke Shubin, Yurid Gourgel, Lauren Blume, Kenneth Blood, Adrian Samaniego, Bruce Mock, Cathleen Lucine Badillo, Matthew Peterson, Reginald Stilwell