Patents by Inventor Richard James Vincent Avery
Richard James Vincent Avery 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: 11904141Abstract: A coding system for a drug reservoir, where the drug reservoir is intended for use with a reservoir holder of a drug delivery device. The coding system includes a collar fitted around the drug reservoir. The collar includes a coding feature that is configured to pass through a corresponding coding feature provided by the reservoir holder of the drug delivery device.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Richard James Vincent Avery, Joseph Butler
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Patent number: 11565056Abstract: A method and system for detecting a limit of use of a medical device is disclosed. The method includes starting a timer of a medical device when said medical device is used for the first time, detecting the limit of use of the medical device and indicating the limit of use of the medical device. The limit of use is reached when at least one of a first criterion and a second criterion is met, wherein the first criterion is that the timer reaches or exceeds a time limit and wherein the second criterion is that at least one operation of a drive train of said medical device reaches or exceeds a limit.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbHInventors: Ilona Eggert, Michael Caspers, Richard James Vincent Avery, Shane Alistair Day
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Publication number: 20220257867Abstract: A drive assembly for a drug delivery system including a plunger member configured to engage and move a stopper within a container, a biasing member configured to move the plunger member, and an adjustable spacer assembly positioned between the plunger member and the stopper. The spacer assembly includes a spacer element attached to the stopper and at least one shim or includes a spacer element and a holder to which the spacer element is attached. The holder may be attached to the stopper and the spacer element may be attached to the holder by a threaded engagement. Also, a drug delivery system for injecting a medicament, the system including a container configured to receive a medicament, the container comprising a stopper configured to move within the container and a closure, a drive assembly as described above, and a needle actuator assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Richard James Vincent Avery, Malcolm Stanley Boyd, Oliver Charles Gazeley, Gareth James Lewis, David Aubrey Plumptre, James Alexander Senior
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Patent number: 11357918Abstract: A drive assembly for a drug delivery system including a plunger member configured to engage and move a stopper within a container, a biasing member configured to move the plunger member, and an adjustable spacer assembly positioned between the plunger member and the stopper. The spacer assembly includes a spacer element attached to the stopper and at least one shim or includes a spacer element and a holder to which the spacer element is attached. The holder may be attached to the stopper and the spacer element may be attached to the holder by a threaded engagement. Also, a drug delivery system for injecting a medicament, the system including a container configured to receive a medicament, the container comprising a stopper configured to move within the container and a closure, a drive assembly as described above, and a needle actuator assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Richard James Vincent Avery, Malcolm Stanley Boyd, Oliver Charles Gazeley, Gareth James Lewis, David Aubrey Plumptre, James Alexander Senior
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Publication number: 20220118191Abstract: A sensor device removably attachable to a drug delivery device includes a sensing arrangement arranged within the sensor device and circuitry configured to process signals provided by the sensing arrangement. The sensing arrangement is configured such that, when the sensor device is attached to the drug delivery device, the sensing arrangement is operable to read encoded information present on a rotatable component internal to the drug delivery device and that is able to be sensed through a window or aperture of the drug delivery device, and is operable to sense through the window or aperture at least a part of a drive mechanism of the drug delivery device. The circuitry is configured to determine information relating to a set dose, and to determine information relating to whether the drug delivery device is in a dose setting mode or whether the device is in a dose delivery mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Christian Rehbein, Samuel Steel, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, Robert Veasey, Richard James Vincent Avery, William Marsh
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Patent number: 11241542Abstract: A sensor device removably attachable to a drug delivery device includes a sensing arrangement arranged within the sensor device and circuitry configured to process signals provided by the sensing arrangement. The sensing arrangement is configured such that, when the sensor device is attached to the drug delivery device, the sensing arrangement is operable to read encoded information present on a rotatable component internal to the drug delivery device and that is able to be sensed through a window or aperture of the drug delivery device, and is operable to sense through the window or aperture at least a part of a drive mechanism of the drug delivery device. The circuitry is configured to determine information relating to a set dose, and to determine information relating to whether the drug delivery device is in a dose setting mode or whether the device is in a dose delivery mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Christian Rehbein, Samuel Steel, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, Robert Veasey, Richard James Vincent Avery, William Marsh
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Publication number: 20220001117Abstract: A method and system for detecting a limit of use of a medical device is disclosed. The method includes starting a timer of a medical device when said medical device is used for the first time, detecting the limit of use of the medical device and indicating the limit of use of the medical device. The limit of use is reached when at least one of a first criterion and a second criterion is met, wherein the first criterion is that the timer reaches or exceeds a time limit and wherein the second criterion is that at least one operation of a drive train of said medical device reaches or exceeds a limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Ilona Eggert, Michael Caspers, Richard James Vincent Avery, Shane Alistair Day
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Publication number: 20210393891Abstract: A method and system for detecting a limit of use of a medical device is disclosed. The method includes starting a timer of a medical device when said medical device is used for the first time, detecting the limit of use of the medical device and indicating the limit of use of the medical device. The limit of use is reached when at least one of a first criterion and a second criterion is met, wherein the first criterion is that the timer reaches or exceeds a time limit and wherein the second criterion is that at least one operation of a drive train of said medical device reaches or exceeds a limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Ilona Eggert, Michael Caspers, Richard James Vincent Avery, Shane Alistair Day
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Patent number: 11185633Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a spring arrangement for use in a drug delivery device and a drug delivery device including such a spring arrangement. The spring arrangement includes a clutch spring which is located axially interposed between a stationary housing component and an axially movable sleeve. The sleeve includes clutch features adapted to engage corresponding clutch features of a clutch element. The clutch spring biases the clutch features and the corresponding clutch features into engagement. The sleeve is coupled to a button such that upon actuation of the button the sleeve is translated against the bias of the clutch spring from a proximal position in which the sleeve is rotationally locked to the housing component into a distal position in which the sleeve is rotationally un-locked from the housing component. Upon release of the button the clutch spring translates the sleeve and the button into the proximal position.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2015Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SanofiInventors: William Marsh, Anthony Paul Morris, Joseph Butler, Matthew Jones, Samuel Steel, Richard James Vincent Avery
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Patent number: 11147739Abstract: A coded collapsible drug reservoir and a drug delivery system including the coded collapsible drug reservoir. The drug reservoir includes a collapsible housing and a port in communication with the collapsible housing. The drug reservoir further includes a coding feature disposed on the drug reservoir, and the coding feature identifies the drug reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbHInventor: Richard James Vincent Avery
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Patent number: 11090436Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to a drug delivery device for selecting and dispensing a number of user variable doses of a medicament. The device comprises a housing and at least two separate component parts, wherein for example at least one of these component parts performs a movement relative to the housing during dose setting and for example at least one of these component parts performs a movement relative to the housing during dose dispensing, and wherein the relative movement of the at least two separate component parts with respect to each other during dose setting differs from the relative movement of the at least two separate component parts with respect to each other during dose dispensing.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: SanofiInventors: Richard James Vincent Avery, Matthew Meredith Jones, William Marsh, Anthony Paul Morris, David Aubrey Plumptre, Samuel Keir Steel, Robert Frederick Veasey
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Patent number: 10905833Abstract: A method and system for detecting a limit of use of a medical device is disclosed. The method includes starting a timer of a medical device when the medical device is used for the first time, detecting the limit of use of the medical device and indicating the limit of use of the medical device. The limit of use is reached when at least one of a first criterion and a second criterion is met, wherein the first criterion is that the timer reaches or exceeds a time limit and wherein the second criterion is that at least one operation of a drive train of said medical device reaches or exceeds a limit.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbHInventors: Ilona Eggert, Michael Caspers, Richard James Vincent Avery, Shane Alistair Day
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Patent number: 10781959Abstract: A coded cartridge holder for use with a drug delivery device is provided. The cartridge holder includes a fastener that becomes operative based in part on a length of a cartridge or a diameter of the cartridge. In one embodiment, the cartridge holder is coupled to the drug delivery device. The cartridge holder comprises a first blocking feature. The drug delivery device includes a cartridge detector comprising a second blocking feature. This feature may be a pin, for engagement with the first blocking feature of the cartridge holder when the cartridge acts on the cartridge detector. The cartridge holder may further include a fastening mechanism configured to fasten the cartridge holder to the drug delivery device only when the second blocking feature engages the first blocking feature.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Plumptre, Christopher Nigel Langley, Richard James Vincent Avery, Joseph Butler
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Patent number: 10758680Abstract: This disclosure refers to a dosing mechanism for use in a drug delivery device implementing a dialing mode and a dispensing mode, wherein the dosing mechanism comprises a dose button, a housing and a determination unit. The dose button is activatable by the user for dose dispense, causing displacement of an indicating element connected to the housing from a first position to a second position. The determination unit is adapted such that it detects the indicating element in its second position and thereby determines that the dosing mechanism is in the dispensing mode. With some embodiments, it is possible to distinguish between the dialing mode and the dispensing mode. Some embodiments further refer to a drug delivery device comprising the above dosing mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Samuel Steel, Richard James Vincent Avery, Anthony Paul Morris, Barry Yates, Matthew Meredith Jones
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Patent number: 10744270Abstract: A dose setting mechanism comprising a first element and a second element; the first element being moveable with respect to the second element; the first element and the second element being coupled by a ratchet mechanism allowing motion of the first element with respect to the second element from a first position to a second position only in a first direction while preventing motion in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction; once passing the second position, the first element being moveable with respect to the second element in the first direction and in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SanofiInventors: Richard James Vincent Avery, Matthew Meredith Jones, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Anthony Paul Morris, David Aubrey Plumptre, Samuel Keir Steel, Robert Frederick Veasey
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Publication number: 20200222635Abstract: A sensor device removably attachable to a drug delivery device includes a sensing arrangement arranged within the sensor device and circuitry configured to process signals provided by the sensing arrangement. The sensing arrangement is configured such that, when the sensor device is attached to the drug delivery device, the sensing arrangement is operable to read encoded information present on a rotatable component internal to the drug delivery device and that is able to be sensed through a window or aperture of the drug delivery device, and is operable to sense through the window or aperture at least a part of a drive mechanism of the drug delivery device. The circuitry is configured to determine information relating to a set dose, and to determine information relating to whether the drug delivery device is in a dose setting mode or whether the device is in a dose delivery mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Christian Rehbein, Samuel Steel, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, Robert Veasey, Richard James Vincent Avery, William Marsh
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Patent number: 10682467Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to a drug delivery device for selecting and dispensing a number of user variable doses of a medicament. The device comprises a housing, a dose selector operable to set a dose by rotation relative to the housing, a number sleeve arranged within the housing, a drive sleeve which is rotationally constrained to the housing during dose setting and dose correcting and which is rotatable relative to the housing during dose dispensing, a piston rod coupled to the housing and to the drive sleeve a drive spring arranged between the housing and the number sleeve, and a ratchet operatively arranged between the drive sleeve and the number sleeve. According to the disclosure the ratchet comprises at least one clicker arm of one of the number sleeve and the drive sleeve and ratchet teeth of the other of the number sleeve and the drive sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: SanofiInventors: Richard James Vincent Avery, Matthew Jones
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Patent number: 10625022Abstract: A sensor device removably attachable to a drug delivery device includes a sensing arrangement arranged within the sensor device and circuitry configured to process signals provided by the sensing arrangement. The sensing arrangement is configured such that, when the sensor device is attached to the drug delivery device, the sensing arrangement is operable to read encoded information present on a rotatable component internal to the drug delivery device and that is able to be sensed through a window or aperture of the drug delivery device, and is operable to sense through the window or aperture at least a part of a drive mechanism of the drug delivery device. The circuitry is configured to determine information relating to a set dose, and to determine information relating to whether the drug delivery device is in a dose setting mode or whether the device is in a dose delivery mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Christian Rehbein, Samuel Steel, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, Robert Veasey, Richard James Vincent Avery, William Marsh
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Patent number: 10576214Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to a drug delivery device for selecting and dispensing a number of user variable doses of a medicament and to a non-numerical display for such a device. The display comprises a housing with at least one window, a dosing element movable relative to the housing during dose setting and/or dose dispensing, and a movable indicator element visible through the at least one window The indicator element is coupled to the dosing element and/or to the housing such that it moves not proportional to the dosing element.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: SanofiInventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Paul Griffin, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Matthew Meredith Jones, Richard James Vincent Avery
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Patent number: 10471218Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to a drug delivery device for selecting and dispensing a number of user variable doses of a medicament. The device comprises a housing (10), a dose selector (80) operable to set a dose by rotation relative to the housing (10), a number sleeve (60) arranged within the housing (10) such that at least a portion of the number sleeve (60) is visible through a first aperture (11b) in the housing (10), and a piston rod (30) coupled to the housing (10) and to a drive sleeve (40). Rotation of the drive sleeve (40) relative to the housing (10) causes the piston rod (30) to translate relative to the housing (10). The piston rod (30) is coupled to the housing (10) via a threaded interface (16, 31) with at least two different pitches.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: SanofiInventors: William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Anthony Paul Morris, Joseph Butler, Matthew Meredith Jones, Samuel Keir Steel, Richard James Vincent Avery