Patents by Inventor Peter Rubin

Peter Rubin 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: 20240382773
    Abstract: A cranial electronics device includes electronics and a flexible body via which the electronics are carried. The flexible body and the electronics are formed such that the device has a lower surface approximating a contour of an outer surface of a portion of a patient's skull. The cranial electronics device is configured to be implanted between the patient's scalp and the portion of patient's skull.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventor: Joseph Peter Rubin
  • Publication number: 20240307866
    Abstract: A method of preparing a fat graft includes introducing fat tissue into an internal chamber of a vessel of a cell or tissue isolation, purification, and storage device through a first opening of the vessel. The method also includes introducing an amount of a wash solution effective to wash the fat graft or an amount of a cryoprotectant effective to cryopreserve the fat graft into the internal chamber of the vessel through a second opening of the vessel and mixing the fat tissue with the wash solution or the cryoprotectant. The method further includes either: when wash solution is introduced, centrifuging the device containing the fat graft to separate the fat graft from the wash solution and drawing the wash solution from the first end of the device; or, when cryoprotectant is introduced, cooling the fat graft to a temperature below 0° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventor: J. Peter Rubin
  • Patent number: 12023664
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and kits are provided for use in washing or cryopreserving live cells or tissue, such as fat graft tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventor: J. Peter Rubin
  • Publication number: 20230142819
    Abstract: A biocontainment assembly for use with a patient suspected of having or diagnosed with a transmissible disease(s) capable of respiratory, airborne, contact, or droplet transmission includes a housing configured to be positioned over and at least partially enclose a head, neck, and/or torso of the patient. A sidewall of the housing includes an open portion contiguous with an at least partially pen bottom portion of the housing, sized to fit over at least a portion of the head, neck, and/or a torso of the patient. The housing also includes an airflow opening for evacuating fluid from an interior defined by the housing. The assembly also includes a drape configured to extend across the open portion of the sidewall having a first portion removably connected to the housing and an opposing second portion configured to be draped over the torso, abdomen, waist, and/or legs of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: David Michael Turer, Cameron Good, Benjamin Schilling, Heng Ban, Jason S. Chang, J. Peter Rubin, Lucas A. Dvoracek
  • Publication number: 20220273188
    Abstract: Described herein are sensing cannula systems that include a surgical instrument, a detection unit, and a conductive pad having a reference electrode and configured to be placed on the patient at a location outside the patient's body. The surgical instrument can include a cannula (such as a fat grafting cannula) having an electrically conductive distal tip and electrical insulation covering the cannula proximally from the distal tip, wherein the distal tip comprises a first electrode. The detection unit can include electrical circuitry that is electrically coupled to the surgical instrument and the conductive pad and operable to measure an electrical impedance between the first electrode and the reference electrode to determine what type of tissue the distal tip is in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicants: University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, UPMC
    Inventors: David Turer, William W. Clark, April Lawrence, Ehsan Qaium, Joseph Peter Rubin, Cameron Dezfulian
  • Publication number: 20220249760
    Abstract: A device for removing fat from a body can include a pair of nested hollow members that each has at least one opening and an adjustment means for adjusting the orientation of the nested hollow members from a first configuration to a second configuration to change an amount of overlap between openings in the nested hollow members. The nested members can be deformable to change the shape of the openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: J. Peter Rubin, Arielle A. Richter, Aaron T. Ledgerwood, Jessica C. Huynh, Kacey G. Marra, Stephen Holland, Mark J. Gartner
  • Patent number: 11338077
    Abstract: A device for removing fat from a body can include a pair of nested hollow members that each has at least one opening and an adjustment means for adjusting the orientation of the nested hollow members from a first configuration to a second configuration to change an amount of overlap between openings in the nested hollow members. The nested members can be deformable to change the shape of the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: J. Peter Rubin, Arielle A. Richter, Aaron T. Ledgerwood, Jessica C. Huynh, Kacey G. Marra, Stephen Holland, Mark J. Gartner
  • Publication number: 20210244850
    Abstract: The inventions provided herein relate to compositions, methods, delivery devices and kits for repairing or augmenting a tissue in a subject. The compositions described herein are injectable such that they can be placed in a tissue to be treated with a minimally-invasive procedure (e.g., by injection) and/or be molded flexibly into a tissue void of any shape and/or size. In some embodiments, the composition described herein comprises a plurality of silk fibroin particles, which can retain their original volume within the tissue for a period of time. The compositions can be used as a filler to replace a tissue void, e.g., for tissue repair and/or augmentation, or as a scaffold to support tissue regeneration and/or reconstruction. In some embodiments, the compositions described herein can be used for soft tissue repair or augmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Evangelia Bellas, Kacey Marra, J. Peter Rubin, David L. Kaplan, James J. Yoo
  • Publication number: 20210093757
    Abstract: Disclosed cannula systems can detect the tissue type within which the cannula tip is located in real time using electrodes adjacent the cannula tip. The sensing cannula system can differentiate when the cannula tip is in adipose tissue or muscle based on electrical impedance. The system can be used in fat grafting and liposuction procedures, for example. An operator can detect if the cannula tip enters muscle by watching for an indicator light or audible alarm that is automatically activated by the device based on a change in sensed impedance. The device may also stop the flow of fat through a pump halting injection into the sub-muscular space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicants: University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, UPMC
    Inventors: David Turer, William W. Clark, April Lawrence, Ehsan Qaium, Joseph Peter Rubin Peter Rubin, Cameron Dezfulian
  • Publication number: 20200346208
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and kits are provided for use in washing or cryopreserving live cells or tissue, such as fat graft tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventor: J. Peter Rubin
  • Publication number: 20190231942
    Abstract: A device for removing fat from a body can include a pair of nested hollow members that each has at least one opening and an adjustment means for adjusting the orientation of the nested hollow members from a first configuration to a second configuration to change an amount of overlap between openings in the nested hollow members. The nested members can be deformable to change the shape of the openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: J. Peter Rubin, Arielle A. Richter, Aaron T. Ledgerwood, Jessica C. Huynh, Kacey G. Marra, Stephen Holland, Mark J. Gartner
  • Patent number: 10286126
    Abstract: A device for removing fat from a body can include a pair of nested hollow members that each has at least one opening and an adjustment means for adjusting the orientation of the nested hollow members from a first configuration to a second configuration to change an amount of overlap between openings in the nested hollow members. The nested members can be deformable to change the shape of the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: J. Peter Rubin, Arielle A. Richter, Aaron T. Ledgerwood, Jessica C. Huynh, Kacey G. Marra, Stephen Holland, Mark J. Gartner
  • Publication number: 20180339084
    Abstract: The inventions provided herein relate to compositions, methods, delivery devices and kits for repairing or augmenting a tissue in a subject. The compositions described herein are injectable such that they can be placed in a tissue to be treated with a minimally-invasive procedure (e.g., by injection) and/or be molded flexibly into a tissue void of any shape and/or size. In some embodiments, the composition described herein comprises a plurality of silk fibroin particles, which can retain their original volume within the tissue for a period of time. The compositions can be used as a filler to replace a tissue void, e.g., for tissue repair and/or augmentation, or as a scaffold to support tissue regeneration and/or reconstruction. In some embodiments, the compositions described herein can be used for soft tissue repair or augmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Evangelia Bellas, Kacey Marra, J. Peter Rubin, David L. Kaplan, James J. Yoo
  • Publication number: 20180125897
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of making a cell growth scaffold from adipose tissue, cell growth scaffolds having low lipid content and methods of using the cell growth scaffold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Stephen Francis Badylak, Bryan N. Brown, John M. Freund, John Peter Rubin
  • Patent number: 9931434
    Abstract: The inventions provided herein relate to compositions, methods, delivery devices and kits for repairing or augmenting a tissue in a subject. The compositions described herein are injectable such that they can be placed in a tissue to be treated with a minimally-invasive procedure (e.g., by injection) and/or be molded flexibly into a tissue void of any shape and/or size. In some embodiments, the composition described herein comprises a plurality of silk fibroin particles, which can retain their original volume within the tissue for a period of time. The compositions can be used as a filler to replace a tissue void, e.g., for tissue repair and/or augmentation, or as a scaffold to support tissue regeneration and/or reconstruction. In some embodiments, the compositions described herein can be used for soft tissue repair or augmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignees: Trustees of Tufts College, University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Wake Forest University Health Sciences
    Inventors: Evangelia Bellas, Kacey Marra, J. Peter Rubin, David L. Kaplan, James J. Yoo
  • Publication number: 20180004295
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transmitting haptic messages are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes the steps of: receiving at least one sensor signal from at least one sensor of a mobile device, the at least one sensor signal associated with a movement of the mobile device, determining a message to be displayed in a user interface based at least in part on the at least one sensor signal, and causing the message to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: David Birnbaum, Christopher Ullrich, Peter Rubin, Phong D. Ngo, Leo Kopelow
  • Patent number: 9814744
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of making a cell growth scaffold from adipose tissue, cell growth scaffolds having low lipid content and methods of using the cell growth scaffold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: University of Pittsburg—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Stephen F. Badylak, Bryan N. Brown, John M. Freund, J. Peter Rubin
  • Patent number: 9785238
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transmitting haptic messages are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes the steps of: receiving at least one sensor signal from at least one sensor of a mobile device, the at least one sensor signal associated with a movement of the mobile device, determining a message to be displayed in a user interface based at least in part on the at least one sensor signal, and causing the message to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: David Birnbaum, Christopher Ullrich, Peter Rubin, Phong D. Ngo, Leo Kopelow
  • Publication number: 20160279299
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems and/or biopolymer devices and methods of using the same. The systems and/or biopolymer devices described herein can be used for delivery of a fluid and/or molecules such as therapeutic agent(s), and/or for recruitment or collection of body fluids, e.g., for medical diagnosis. Methods of making and using the systems and/or biopolymer devices are also provided herein. In some embodiments, the systems and/or biopolymer devices can be used for continuous delivery of a therapeutic agent to repair or regenerate a tissue in a subject. In some embodiments, the biopolymer devices can be adapted for use as a catheter for fluid delivery to a target site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: David L. Kaplan, Eun Seok Gil, J. Peter Rubin, Jolene E. Valentin
  • Publication number: 20150297810
    Abstract: A device for removing fat from a body can include a pair of nested hollow members that each has at least one opening and an adjustment means for adjusting the orientation of the nested hollow members from a first configuration to a second configuration to change an amount of overlap between openings in the nested hollow members. The nested members can be deformable to change the shape of the openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: J. Peter RUBIN, Arielle A. RICHTER, Aaron T. LEDGERWOOD, Jessica C. HUYNH, Mark J. GARTNER, Kacey G. MARRA, Stephen HOLLAND