Patents by Inventor Paul D. Faucher

Paul D. Faucher 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: 12070582
    Abstract: Drug delivery devices are configured to include a gas-driven piston assembly having a flexible pushrod, a non-linear guide include a non-linear guide pathway at least partially surrounding the flexible pushrod, a cylinder at least partially surrounding the flexible pushrod, and a piston movable within the cylinder in response to the pressurized gas entering the cylinder. Some arrangements include a roller pushrod guide system and/or a gear pushrod guide system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Mehran Mojarrad, Ali Nekouzadeh, Susan McConnell Montalvo, Scott R. Gibson, Sheldon B. Moberg, Joshua Tamsky, Paul D. Faucher
  • Publication number: 20240197993
    Abstract: An injection device includes a housing and a drive spring within the housing. The drive spring has a distal end and a proximal end opposite the distal end along the longitudinal axis. The drive spring defines an interior cavity. A plunger is disposed at least partially within a medicament container and a plunger rod is engaged with the plunger. A drive-lock mechanism includes a latch mechanism at least partially received within the interior cavity. The lock mechanism includes at least one engagement portion that releasably engages the plunger rod. A retraction collar is engaged with the latch mechanism that moves from a drive-locked position, which prevents unlocking of the drive-lock mechanism, to a drive-unlocked position relative to the retraction collar, in which decoupling of the drive-lock mechanism is permitted. A method of manufacturing the injection device is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Alan D. PAYNE, Paul D. FAUCHER, Steve E. GORSKI
  • Publication number: 20240189513
    Abstract: An injection device includes a drive spring within the housing, a first drive component that transfers drive from the drive spring to a plunger disposed within a medicament container, and a damper concentrically arranged with respect to the first drive component. The damper is longitudinally fixed relative to the housing. The first drive component moves along the longitudinal axis relative to the damper under the influence of the drive spring. The damper frictionally engages a surface of the first drive component during movement of the drive component relative to the damper. A method of manufacturing the injection device is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Alan D. PAYNE, Paul D. FAUCHER, Steve E. GORSKI, James G. GUTHLEIN
  • Patent number: 11974934
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ReShape Lifesciences Inc.
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D. L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider
  • Publication number: 20240091440
    Abstract: A drug delivery device for delivering a medicament includes a housing, a pump, drive component, an inlet fluid path, an outlet fluid path, an inlet pressure sensor, an outlet pressure sensor, and a controller. The pump is coupled with the housing. The drive component is for driving the pump. The inlet fluid path is configured to deliver medicament to the pump. The outlet fluid path is configured to receive medicament from the pump. The inlet pressure sensor is positioned along the inlet fluid path and configured to measure inlet fluid pressure. The outlet pressure sensor is positioned along the outlet fluid path and configured to measure outlet fluid pressure. The controller is workingly coupled with the inlet pressure sensor, the outlet pressure sensor, and the drive component, wherein the controller is configured to adjust at least one parameter of the drive component based on input information received from the inlet pressure sensor and/or the outlet pressure sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Scott R. Gibson, Mehran Mojarrad, Paul D. Faucher, Antonio S. Murcia, Alan D. Payne, Sheldon Moberg, Olivia Li
  • Publication number: 20240016635
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D. L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Lievares, Josefina Nider
  • Publication number: 20230414391
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D.L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider
  • Patent number: 11779482
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ReShape Lifesciences Inc.
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D. L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider
  • Patent number: 11737899
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: RESHAPE LIFESCIENCES INC.
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D. L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider
  • Publication number: 20220401643
    Abstract: A drug delivery device includes a drug product container, a pressurized vessel, and an urging member. The drug product container can have at least one flexible wall and defining a cavity configured to contain a drug product. The pressurized vessel can contain a gas under pressure. And the urging member is in working connection with the pressurized vessel such that, upon at least partial release of the gas under pressure, the urging member moves from a first portion of the drug product container to a second portion, thereby ejecting at least a portion of the drug product from the drug product container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Scott R. Gibson, Paul D. Faucher, Mehran Mojarrad
  • Publication number: 20220387702
    Abstract: A drug delivery device is provided that includes a housing, a fluid displacement assembly at least partially supported by and/or surrounded by the housing, and a drive component at least partially supported by and/or surrounded by the housing. The fluid displacement assembly includes a ring tube portion. The drive component includes an eccentric component having a contact surface configured to directly or indirectly apply a compression force to a compression patch of the ring tube portion such that when the eccentric component rotates about an axis, the contact surface moves along generally circular path and drives the medicament through the fluid displacement assembly. The compression force between the contact surface and the ring tube portion is preferably substantially constant throughout a complete revolution about the axis by the eccentric component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Scott R. Gibson, Mehran Mojarrad, Paul D. Faucher
  • Publication number: 20220218505
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D.L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider
  • Publication number: 20210146055
    Abstract: Drug delivery devices are configured to include a gas-driven piston assembly having a flexible pushrod, a non-linear guide include a non-linear guide pathway at least partially surrounding the flexible pushrod, a cylinder at least partially surrounding the flexible pushrod, and a piston movable within the cylinder in response to the pressurized gas entering the cylinder. Some arrangements include a roller pushrod guide system and/or a gear pushrod guide system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Mehran Mojarrad, Ali Nekouzadeh, Susan McConnell Montalvo, Scott R. Gibson, Sheldon B. Moberg, Joshua Tamsky, Paul D. Faucher
  • Publication number: 20200179147
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D.L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider
  • Patent number: 10610396
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Obalon Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D. L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider
  • Patent number: 10463520
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Obalon Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D. L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider
  • Publication number: 20180185185
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D.L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider
  • Publication number: 20180008446
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D.L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider
  • Patent number: 9827128
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Obalon Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D. L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider
  • Patent number: 9662239
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Obalon Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D. L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider