Patents by Inventor Robert Kirkpatrick

Robert Kirkpatrick 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: 20250025645
    Abstract: Methods for filling a prescription are provided. In some instances, a method for filling a prescription includes providing a housing and a locking cap. The locking cap is configured to be fixedly secured to the housing, a first member of the locking cap is configured to threadedly engage the housing, the locking cap is configured to be fixedly secured to the housing via a plurality of latching members of the first member of the locking cap, and the plurality of latching members are configured to encase a lip of the housing. The method for filling the prescription further includes filling, by an authorized user, the housing with a substance; receiving a unique identifier associated with an intended user; and coupling, by the authorized user, the housing and the locking cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Robert Boyer, Christy Corey, Richard Cronenberg, John Kirkpatrick
  • Publication number: 20230137633
    Abstract: Expandable introducer sheaths and associated laser cut frames for the insertion of a medical device into a blood vessel. In some examples, an expandable sheath may have a frame including a plurality of radial expansion bands and a plurality of connecting bridges for connecting adjacent radial expansion bands. The radial expansion bands are configured to accommodate radial expansion and the plurality of connecting bridges are configured to be longitudinally expandable and to impart column strength as a medical device (e.g., an intracardiac heart pump) is passed through the sheath, such as during insertion or removal of the medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: ABIOMED, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Nason Korkuch, Jonathan Barry, Anne Gabrielle McLoughlin, Robert Kirkpatrick, Ying Xu, Glen R. Fantuzzi, Robert Fishman, Mithun Rajaram, Matthew D'Agostino
  • Publication number: 20060177422
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing physiologically active human Interleukin-18 (“IL-18”).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Kyung Johanson, Robert Kirkpatrick, Allan Shatzman, Yen Ho, Patrick McDevitt
  • Patent number: 7067280
    Abstract: Nucleic acid sequences for HC gp-39L are provided. Methods of detecting altered expression of tissue remodeling proteins and diagnosing tissue remodeling disorders are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corp.
    Inventors: Robert Kirkpatrick, Martin Rosenberg
  • Publication number: 20050008615
    Abstract: Human interleukin-18 (IL-18) polypeptides and substitution mutants thereof were conjugated to water-soluble polymers at specific sites on the human IL-18 protein. These conjugated human IL-18 and substitution mutants thereof retain biological activity. These conjugated cytokines demonstrate enhanced and unexpected biological properties when compared to the corresponding unconjugated cytokines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Narendra Bam, Jacob Bongers, Robert Kirkpatrick, Cheryl Janson, Zdenka Jonak, Xianyang Qiu, Ping Yeh, Kyung Johanson
  • Patent number: 6507577
    Abstract: Voice and media services are provided over an IP network incorporating a plurality of nodes and in which connection oriented traffic is transported in tunnels via said nodes. SS7 signalling is provided between nodes. The voice and media components are multiplexed to form a point to point protocol (PPP) session which is switched end to end across the network under the control of the signalling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Roy Harold Mauger, Gary Robert Kirkpatrick, Mark Robert Gibson
  • Patent number: 5933776
    Abstract: An apparatus and method by which a terrestrial based or satellite based cellular telephone is tested in-service, preferably at a retailer location, to identify the source of a cellular telephone user's dissatisfaction and to aid the retailer in resolving the issue. Test equipment is embedded within the cellular telephone network to captures currently available but unrecognized information relating to cellular telephone operation from a known location, i.e. the retailer's location, having known performance parameters. In this way, network related problems, such as fading, are eliminated. This allows cellular telephone performance to be evaluated and further allows various cellular telephone functions to be simulated. The invention thus allows identification of the nature of cellular telephone user dissatisfaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventor: George Robert Kirkpatrick
  • Patent number: 5811535
    Abstract: HC gp39-L polypeptides and DNA (RNA) encoding such HC gp39-L and a procedure for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing such HC gp39-L for the treatment of rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, artherosclerosis, metastatic cancers, periodontia, chronic renal diseases, etc. Antagonists against such HC gp39-L and their use as a therapeutic to treat rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, artherosclerosis, metastatic cancers, periodontia, chronic renal diseases, etc. are also disclosed. Also disclosed are diagnostic assays for detecting diseases related to mutations in the nucleic acid sequences and altered concentrations of the polypeptides. Also disclosed are diagnostic assays for detecting mutations in the polynucleotides encoding the HC gp39-L and for detecting altered levels of the polypeptide in a host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Julie Adamou, Robert Kirkpatrick, Martin Rosenberg
  • Patent number: 5711754
    Abstract: A balloon catheter has an inner tube communicating with a blood introduction port provided at a tip of the balloon portion. The inner tube is affixed to the inner wall of the catheter tube by adhesion, melt-bonding, or integral formation. The balloon catheter has a small channel resistance in the channel where the pressurized fluid which expands and contracts the balloon portion flows, even when the catheter tube has been bent, and enables expansion and contraction of the balloon portion with a good response. Another balloon catheter has the balloon portions at a range of the end sides of the balloon portions smaller in sectional area compared with the balloon portions at the tip sides. The catheter is able to effectively prevent side effects which occur only rarely but which are serious when they do occur. The catheter impairs as little as possible the effect of assisting the heart action inherent to the IABP method without special measurement of the diameter of the patient's blood vessels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyata, Tetsuo Toyokawa, Kouichi Sakai, Masaru Miyahara, Takashi Tsuji, Donald Robert Kirkpatrick
  • Patent number: 5424720
    Abstract: A refrigerated vehicle system is particularly adapted for use with refrigerated tractor/trailer and rail car vehicles to provide data on the operation of the vehicle and to monitor and provide a record of the operation of ancillary equipment important in the proper refrigeration of the vehicle. With refrigerated vehicles, the system can provide records of the temperatures of articles when loaded into the refrigerated vehicle, throughout their transportation and upon delivery from the vehicle and can monitor refrigerated vehicles, store information on the refrigeration of the vehicles, including time/temperature records and information of the operation and status of refrigeration system components, and output such information to remote and distant locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Assignee: Lee Mechanical, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Kirkpatrick