Patents by Inventor Philip J. Conway
Philip J. Conway 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).
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Patent number: 12279942Abstract: Devices for treating or managing fecal or bowel incontinence and methods employing them. Such a device can form a seal with at least a portion of the bowel to prevent unwanted discharge of fecal matter from the rectum. Such a device can include an elastomeric skin having a bulbous portion. Such a device can include a grip configured to remain exterior to the subject.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: MINNESOTA MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIESInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Sarah L. Grinde, Philip J. Conway, Adil Bharucha
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Publication number: 20240189140Abstract: Devices and/or methods for treating and/or managing urinary incontinence. A self-adhering male external catheter (MEC) is worn by the patient. Adhesive applied to a surface of the MEC adheres the MEC to the patient's skin. An adhesion zone of the MEC or another MEC to the skin is adjusted during the course of the treatment or management to allow the skin to rest and rejuvenate and reduce incidence of skin problems at the site of skin to adhesive contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: June 13, 2024Inventors: Anthony J. Conway, Philip J. Conway, Sarah L. Grinde
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Publication number: 20240008968Abstract: The present invention relates to devices for treating or managing fecal or bowel incontinence and methods employing them. In an embodiment, such a device can form a seal with at least a portion of the bowel to prevent unwanted discharge of fecal matter from the rectum.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Minnesota Medical TechnologiesInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Sarah L. Grinde, Philip J. Conway, Adil Bharucha
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Patent number: 11737860Abstract: The present invention relates to devices for treating or managing fecal or bowel incontinence and methods employing them. Such a device can form a seal with at least a portion of the bowel to prevent unwanted discharge of fecal matter from the rectum.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Minnesota Medical TechnologiesInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Sarah L. Grinde, Philip J. Conway, Adil Bharucha
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Publication number: 20210177565Abstract: The present invention relates to devices for treating or managing fecal or bowel incontinence and methods employing them. In an embodiment, such a device can form a seal with at least a portion of the bowel to prevent unwanted discharge of fecal matter from the rectum.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2021Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: Minnesota Medical TechnologiesInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Sarah L. Grinde, Philip J. Conway, Adil Bharucha
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Patent number: 10959822Abstract: The present invention relates to devices for treating or managing fecal or bowel incontinence and methods employing them. In an embodiment, such a device can form a seal with at least a portion of the bowel to prevent unwanted discharge of fecal matter from the rectum.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: MINNESOTA MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIESInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Sarah L. Grinde, Philip J. Conway, Adil Bharucha
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Publication number: 20190077579Abstract: A system arranged for providing controlled discharge of gaseous and fluid elements sequentially into any of a wide variety of individual fluid and gas such as for example, whipped cream dispensing units, while preventing misuse of that system, and also reporting any needs of that system for management or resupply.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Thomas Muldoon, Philip J. Conway
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Publication number: 20170239031Abstract: The present invention relates to devices for treating or managing fecal or bowel incontinence and methods employing them. In an embodiment, such a device can form a seal with at least a portion of the bowel to prevent unwanted discharge of fecal matter from the rectum.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Anthony J. Conway, Sarah L. Grinde, Philip J. Conway, Adil Bharucha
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Patent number: 6626888Abstract: A method shaping polymeric structures by coating a support structure with a bond-preventing agent to attain a particular shape and subsequently coating the shaped structure of the bond-preventing agent with a polymeric bonding composition is provided. Such shaped polymeric structures can have one or more cavities which can be fluid-filled or gel-filled. Also provided is a hand-actuating retention female urinary catheter having an inner tube and an outer overcoat layer encircling the tube with an elastomeric collar with a shroud. A cavity containing a fluid is interposed between the tube and the overcoat layer. The cavity includes a balloon portion and a reservoir portion. The shroud encircles the reservoir section to inhibit the ballooning of the reservoir section when the reservoir section is squeezed to force fluid from the reservoir portion to the balloon portion through the sleeve portion of the cavity. The overcoat layer and the collar with a shroud are made of soft resilient material.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1995Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: Rochester Medical CorporationInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Philip J. Conway, Richard D. Fryar, Jr.
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Patent number: 6479000Abstract: An apparatus for sealing at least a portion of the urinary tract to prevent the unwanted discharge of urine includes a body member with a tubular member, encircled along its length by an overcoat layer, that encases a fluid, forming a cavity. The body member, with its tubular member and overcoat layer are elastically deformable from an initial “rest” or “relaxed” state, when outside of the body, where at least a portion of the overcoat layer is of a diameter equal to or greater than that of an undilated urethra. A stylet may be placed into the tubular member to serve as a guide, for elongation of the body member and to provide rigidly to the body member upon insertion into the urinary tract. There is also disclosed a method for making the apparatus of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1999Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignee: Rochester Medical CorporationInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Philip J. Conway, Richard D. Fryar, Jr.
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Patent number: 6383434Abstract: A method of shaping polymeric structures by coating a support structure with a bond-preventing agent to attain a particular shape and subsequently coating the shaped structure of the bond-preventing agent with a polymeric bonding composition is provided. Such shaped polymeric structures can have one or more cavities which can be fluid-filled or gel-filled. Also provided is a hand-actuating retention female urinary catheter having an inner tube and an outer overcoat layer encircling the tube with an elastomeric collar with a shroud. A cavity containing a fluid is interposed between the tube and the overcoat layer. The cavity includes a balloon portion and a reservoir portion. The shroud encircles the reservoir section to inhibit the ballooning of the reservoir section when the reservoir section is squeezed to force fluid from the reservoir portion to the balloon portion through the sleeve portion of the cavity. The overcoat layer and the collar with a shroud are made of soft resilient material.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1999Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Rochester Medical CorporationInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Philip J. Conway, Richard D. Fryar, Jr.
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Publication number: 20010052658Abstract: An apparatus for sealing at least a portion of the urinary tract to prevent the unwanted discharge of urine includes a body member with a tubular member, encircled along its length by an overcoat layer, that encases a fluid, forming a cavity. The body member, with its tubular member and overcoat layer are elastically deformable from an initial “rest” or “relaxed” state, when outside of the body, where at least a portion of the overcoat layer is of a diameter equal to or greater than that of an undilated urethra. A stylet may be placed into the tubular member to serve as a guide, for elongation of the body member and to provide rigidly to the body member upon insertion into the urinary tract. There is also disclosed a method for making the apparatus of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 1999Publication date: December 20, 2001Inventors: ANTHONY J. CONWAY, PHILIP J. CONWAY, RICHARD D. FRYAR
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Patent number: 6315711Abstract: An apparatus for sealing at least a portion of the urinary tract to prevent the unwanted discharge of urine includes a body member with a tubular member, encircled along its length by an overcoat layer, that encases a fluid, forming a cavity. The body member, with its tubular member and overcoat layer are elastically deformable from an initial “rest” or “relaxed” state, when outside of the body, where at least a portion of the overcoat layer is of a diameter equal to or greater than that of an undilated urethra. A stylet may be placed into the tubular member to serve as a guide, for elongation of the body member and to provide rigidly to the body member upon insertion into the urinary tract. There is also disclosed a method for making the apparatus of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1999Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignee: Rochester Medical CorporationInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Philip J. Conway, Richard D. Fryar, Jr.
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Publication number: 20010022411Abstract: A method of shaping polymeric structures by coating a support structure with a bond-preventing agent to attain a particular shape and subsequently coating the shaped structure of the bond-preventing agent with a polymeric bonding composition is provided. Such shaped polymeric structures can have one or more cavities which can be fluid-filled or gel-filled. Also provided is a hand-actuating retention female urinary catheter having an inner tube and an outer overcoat layer encircling the tube with an elastomeric collar with a shroud. A cavity containing a fluid is interposed between the tube and the overcoat layer. The cavity includes a balloon portion and a reservoir portion. The shroud encircles the reservoir section to inhibit the ballooning of the reservoir section when the reservoir section is squeezed to force fluid from the reservoir portion to the balloon portion through the sleeve portion of the cavity. The overcoat layer and the collar with a shroud are made of soft resilient material.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 1999Publication date: September 20, 2001Inventors: ANTHONY J. CONWAY, PHILIP J. CONWAY, RICHARD D. FRYAR
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Patent number: 5971954Abstract: A hand-actuated retention catheter 5 is disclosed. The retention catheter includes a tube 12, an overcoat layer 14 encircling the tube 12 and a cavity 16 interposed between the tube 12 and the overcoat layer 14. The cavity 16 encircles the tube and includes a bulbous balloon portion 24 and an enlarged fluid reservoir portion 22 interconnected and separated by a catheter sleeve portion 26 which has a narrowed outside diameter. The expandable balloon portion 24 can be expanded by compressing the fluid reservoir portion 22. Methods of making the hand-actuated retention catheter and methods of using the same are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: Rochester Medical CorporationInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Philip J. Conway, Richard D. Fryar, Jr.
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Patent number: 5906575Abstract: An apparatus for sealing at least a portion of the urinary tract to prevent the unwanted discharge of urine includes a body member with a tubular member, encircled along its length by an overcoat layer, that encases a fluid, forming a cavity. The body member, with its tubular member and overcoat layer are elastically deformable from an initial "rest" or "relaxed" state, when outside of the body, where at least a portion of the overcoat layer is of a diameter equal to or greater than that of an undilated urethra. A stylet may be placed into the tubular member to serve as a guide, for elongation of the body member and to provide rigidly to the body member upon insertion into the urinary tract. There is also disclosed a method for making the apparatus of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1996Date of Patent: May 25, 1999Assignee: Rochester Medical CorporationInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Philip J. Conway, Richard D. Fryar, Jr.
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Patent number: 5670111Abstract: A method of shaping polymeric structures by coating a support structure with a bond-preventing agent to attain a particular shape and subsequently coating the shaped structure of the bond-preventing agent with a polymeric bonding composition is provided. Such shaped polymeric structures can have one or more cavities which can be fluid-filled or gel-filled. Also provided is a hand-actuating retention female urinary catheter having an inner tube and an outer overcoat layer encircling the tube with an elastomeric collar with a shroud. A cavity containing a fluid is interposed between the tube and the overcoat layer. The cavity includes a balloon portion and a reservoir portion. The shroud encircles the reservoir section to inhibit the ballooning of the reservoir section when the reservoir section is squeezed to force fluid from the reservoir portion to the balloon portion through the sleeve portion of the cavity. The overcoat layer and the collar with a shroud are made of soft resilient material.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1994Date of Patent: September 23, 1997Assignee: Rochester Medical CorporationInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Philip J. Conway, Richard D. Fryar, Jr.
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Patent number: 5599321Abstract: A sustained release bactericidal cannula or catheter for residence within a portion of a human body through which aqueous biological fluids can pass. The bactericidal cannula for catheter including a tube having an inner surface, defining and interior lumen, and an outer surface. The tube has a polymeric matrix and antibacterial agent residing within at least a portion of the polymeric matrix. The polymeric matrix includes cured silicon rubber and the antibacterial agent is a finely divided nitrofuran compound which is soluble in water and effective to prevent proliferation of certain bacteria in an otherwise growth supporting aqueous environment when dissolved in the aqueous environment to the limit of its solubility therein at 37.degree. C. The solubility of the nitrofuran compound is preferably about 0.2% by weight or less at a pH of about 6 and a temperature of about 25.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: February 4, 1997Assignee: Rochester Medical CorporationInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Philip J. Conway, Richard D. Fryar, Jr.
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Patent number: 5593718Abstract: A method of making hand-actuated retention catheter 5 is disclosed. The retention catheter includes a tube 12, an overcoat layer 14 encircling the tube 12 and a cavity 16 interposed between the tube 12 and the overcoat layer 14. The cavity 16 encircles the tube and includes a bulbous balloon portion 24 and an enlarged fluid reservoir portion 22 interconnected and separated by a catheter sleeve portion 26 which has a narrowed outside diameter. The expandable balloon portion 24 can be expanded by compressing the fluid reservoir portion 22. A variabale thickness coating of bond-preventing agent is formed on a polymeric structure prior to dipping in a polymeric material to form the overcoat layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1994Date of Patent: January 14, 1997Assignee: Rochester Medical CorporationInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Philip J. Conway, Richard D. Fryar, Jr.
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Patent number: 5501669Abstract: A method of shaping polymeric structures by coating a support structure with a bond-preventing agent to attain a particular shape and subsequently coating the shaped structure of the bond-preventing agent with a polymeric bonding composition is provided. Such shaped polymeric structures can have one or more cavities which can be fluid-filled or gel-filled. Also provided is a hand-actuating retention female urinary catheter having an inner tube and an outer overcoat layer encircling the tube with an elastomeric collar with a shroud. A cavity containing a fluid is interposed between the tube and the overcoat layer. The cavity includes a balloon portion and a reservoir portion. The shroud encircles the reservoir section to inhibit the ballooning of the reservoir section when the reservoir section is squeezed to force fluid from the reservoir portion to the balloon portion through the sleeve portion of the cavity. The overcoat layer and the collar with a shroud are made of soft resilient material.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1995Date of Patent: March 26, 1996Assignee: Rochester Medical CorporationInventors: Anthony J. Conway, Philip J. Conway, Richard D. Fryar, Jr.