Patents by Inventor Michael R. Mensinger

Michael R. Mensinger 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: 20250140364
    Abstract: A medicine administration and tracking system includes a delivery device configured to deliver a plurality of doses of medicine over a plurality of days and a computing device configured to receive dose information for each dose. The computing device includes a software application operable to cause the computing device to retrieve the dose information for all doses within a pre-determined period of days, categorize each dose within the pre-determined period of days into one of a plurality of time blocks throughout a 24-hour timeframe, determine a time of interest based on a time block of the plurality of time blocks having the least amount of doses categorized therein, and select a physiological parameter reading from a plurality of physiological parameter readings as a physiological parameter reading of interest based on a proximity of a time of the physiological parameter reading to the determined time of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Michael R. Mensinger, Angela R. Gaetano, Madison B. Smith, Heung Yong Im, Francis W. Pascual, Jasper Benke, Sneha Thanasekaran
  • Patent number: 12214173
    Abstract: A medicine injection pen includes a body, a drive member within the body and configured to move relative thereto upon actuation, a cartridge housing releasably engageable with the body and configured to retain a medicine cartridge, at least one sensor, and at least one detector. The medicine cartridge has a liquid medicine therein and includes a piston configured to slide therein. The drive member is configured to move relative to the body to urge the piston to slide within the medicine cartridge to dispense at least some of the liquid medicine from the medicine cartridge. The sensor(s) is configured to sense movement of the drive member relative to the body to enable determination of an amount of the liquid medicine dispensed. The detector(s) is configured to detect a gap between the drive member and the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael R. Mensinger, Ellis Garai, Eric A. Larson
  • Patent number: 12191017
    Abstract: A medicine administration and tracking system includes a delivery device configured to deliver a plurality of doses of medicine over a plurality of days and a computing device configured to receive dose information for each dose. The computing device includes a software application operable to cause the computing device to retrieve the dose information for all doses within a pre-determined period of days, categorize each dose within the pre-determined period of days into one of a plurality of time blocks throughout a 24-hour timeframe, determine a time of interest based on a time block of the plurality of time blocks having the least amount of doses categorized therein, and select a physiological parameter reading from a plurality of physiological parameter readings as a physiological parameter reading of interest based on a proximity of a time of the physiological parameter reading to the determined time of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael R. Mensinger, Angela R. Gaetano, Madison B. Smith, Heung Y. Im, Francis W. Pascual, Jasper Benke, Sneha Thanasekaran
  • Patent number: 12165757
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing sensor data are provided. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for calibration of a continuous analyte sensor. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for classification of a level of noise on a sensor signal. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for determining a rate of change for analyte concentration based on a continuous sensor signal. In some embodiments, systems and methods for alerting or alarming a patient based on prediction of glucose concentration are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Ying Li, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Aarthi Mahalingam, Michael R. Mensinger, J. Michael Dobbles
  • Publication number: 20230095963
    Abstract: A method, and a system configured to perform a method, for customizing user alerts in a medicine administration and tracking system including detecting an alertable condition for which a medicine administration and tracking system is configured to monitor, generating a custom alert for the alertable condition based at least in part on historical data indicating a responsiveness to previous alerts for the same alertable condition, delivering the generated custom alert to a user, determining the user's response to the generated custom alert, and updating the historical data to include the alertable condition, the generated custom alert, and the user's level of responsiveness to the generated custom alert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Madison B. Smith, Angela R. Gaetano, Michael R. Mensinger
  • Publication number: 20220387722
    Abstract: A method for medicine administration and tracking and system for the same that may implement the method via a health management application running on a computing device includes tracking movement of an injection pen from a start location to a dispensing location, detecting a dispensing event of medicine dispensed from the injection pen at the dispensing location, determining a location of the dispensing location relative to a user's body, associating information relating to the detected dispensing event with information relating to the determined location, and providing feedback based upon the detected dispensing event information and the determined location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Michael R. Mensinger, Ellis Garai, Eric A. Larson
  • Publication number: 20220387720
    Abstract: A medicine injection pen includes a body, a drive member within the body and configured to move relative thereto upon actuation, a cartridge housing releasably engageable with the body and configured to retain a medicine cartridge, at least one sensor, and at least one detector. The medicine cartridge has a liquid medicine therein and includes a piston configured to slide therein. The drive member is configured to move relative to the body to urge the piston to slide within the medicine cartridge to dispense at least some of the liquid medicine from the medicine cartridge. The sensor(s) is configured to sense movement of the drive member relative to the body to enable determination of an amount of the liquid medicine dispensed. The detector(s) is configured to detect a gap between the drive member and the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Michael R. Mensinger, Ellis Garai, Eric A. Larson
  • Publication number: 20220262477
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing sensor data are provided. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for calibration of a continuous analyte sensor. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for classification of a level of noise on a sensor signal. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for determining a rate of change for analyte concentration based on a continuous sensor signal. In some embodiments, systems and methods for alerting or alarming a patient based on prediction of glucose concentration are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Ying Li, Apurv ULLAS Kamath, Aarthi Mahalingam, Michael R. Mensinger, J. Michael Dobbles
  • Publication number: 20210295976
    Abstract: A medicine administration and tracking system includes a delivery device configured to deliver a plurality of doses of medicine over a plurality of days and a computing device configured to receive dose information for each dose. The computing device includes a software application operable to cause the computing device to retrieve the dose information for all doses within a pre-determined period of days, categorize each dose within the pre-determined period of days into one of a plurality of time blocks throughout a 24-hour timeframe, determine a time of interest based on a time block of the plurality of time blocks having the least amount of doses categorized therein, and select a physiological parameter reading from a plurality of physiological parameter readings as a physiological parameter reading of interest based on a proximity of a time of the physiological parameter reading to the determined time of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Michael R. Mensinger, Angela R. Gaetano, Madison B. Smith, Heung Y. Im, Francis W. Pascual, Jasper Benke, Sneha Thanasekaran
  • Publication number: 20110004085
    Abstract: A method of providing performance reports to persons associated with the monitoring of an analyte level, such as blood glucose concentrations in a host, is provided. The performance reports can indicate a measure of an analyte variability of the host over a first analysis time period compared to a measure of analyte variability of the host over one or more other analysis time periods. The analyte level of the host can be received in each of a plurality of sensor readings from a continuous analyte sensor, such as multiple sensor readings per hour, so that the analyte variability that is used in determining the performance report of the host can be based on not just a few metered readings taken by the host, but a plurality of intermittent readings that are taken by a continuous analyte sensor, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: DexCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael R. Mensinger, Deborah M. Ruppert