Patents by Inventor Robin Scott Urry

Robin Scott Urry 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: 12349983
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for ultrasound-and-bioimpedance-based guidance of medical devices. A system can include an ultrasound probe, a needle, a console, and a display screen. The ultrasound probe is configured to emit ultrasound pulses and receive reflected ultrasound pulses reflected back through one or more tissues for producing ultrasound images. The needle can be configured to emit, detect, or alternately emit and detect electrical currents passed through the one-or-more tissues disposed between a pair or more of system electrodes for measuring bioimpedance. The console can be configured to instantiate one or more console processes for the ultrasound-and-bioimpedance-based guidance with the ultrasound probe and the needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Bard Access Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Shayne Messerly, Anthony K. Misener, Steffan Sowards, Robin Scott Urry
  • Patent number: 12226596
    Abstract: A system for magnetic field direction detection when placing a catheter is disclosed, including a sensor configured to track a medical device, the sensor including a magnetic sensor printed circuit board including a plurality of magnetometers arranged in a magnetometer array. The system can include a console coupled to the sensor, including a processor and non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored a plurality of logic modules that when executed by the processor, are configured to perform operations including receiving detected magnetic field strength values detected by the plurality of magnetometers, determining a position on the sensor of each of the plurality of magnetometers, determining the magnetic field source direction based on the detected magnetic field strength values and the position on the sensor of each of the plurality of magnetometers, and displaying the magnetic field source direction on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Bard Access Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Robin Scott Urry
  • Publication number: 20240350016
    Abstract: A medical system includes a vascular device operatively coupled with a system module. The vascular device includes a pressure measurement capability as the distal end thereof. Logic of the system module acquires and pressure measurements during downstream advancement of the vascular device along a venous vasculature. The logic determines that the distal end of the vascular device is advanced to a defined location, such as the cavoatrial junction, for example, based on a minimum average pressure and/or maximum pressure variation. The vascular device may include a pressure sensor located at the distal end. The pressure sensor may include fiber optic Bragg grating of an optical fiber extending along the vascular device. The vascular device may be central catheter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Bard Access Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Robin Scott Urry
  • Publication number: 20240342325
    Abstract: Ultraviolet light disinfection systems expose medical devices, surfaces, patients and healthcare clinicians to UV light having wavelengths consist with killing microorganisms. UV light systems may use logic to govern the operation of UV light sources so as to apply a disinfecting dose of the UV light. UV detectors measure UV light exposure. Enclosures contain medical devices and flood the medical devices with the UV light. Some enclosures accommodate a person. Some UV systems project UV light onto high-touch surfaces of a healthcare environment. Some systems may be deployed within a patient transport vehicle. Some UV systems may be incorporated into medical devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Robin Scott Urry, Dustin Payne, Debra K. Cloward, Matthew J. Prince, Timothy M. Snelling, Craig Hayden, Taylor A. Brown, Jacob M. Sobelman, Paul T. Westwood, Stefan Josef Fellner, Steffan Sowards, Christopher Quach, Amelia Marie Smith, William Robert McLaughlin, Christopher Winland
  • Publication number: 20240226351
    Abstract: A disinfection system can include a console and an operably connected disinfection unit. The console can have electronic circuitry including memory with executable instructions configured to cause the console to perform various processes when executed by one or more processors of the console. The various processes can include characterizing with medical-device characterization logic characteristics of at least an elongate portion of a medical device for establishing or maintaining vascular access in a patient. The various processes can also include determining with disinfection logic a disinfection profile for disinfecting at least the elongate portion of the medical device with ultraviolet (“UV”) light. The disinfection unit can include a disinfection compartment suitably sized to enclose the medical device therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Dustin Payne, Robin Scott Urry, Debra K. Cloward
  • Publication number: 20240189467
    Abstract: A system and method for disinfecting medical devices includes a covering for a medical cart that exposes medical devices disposed on the cart to a disinfecting ultraviolet light. The covering includes a light emitting system that includes a number of UV light sources, such as LEDs, configured to define an ultraviolet light environment beneath the covering. The light emitting system may include one or more light pipes and/or optical fibers. systems and methods. An opaque layer of the covering contains the ultraviolet light environment beneath the covering. Portions of the light emitting system suspend from the covering so as to emit UV light between adjacent medical devices on the cart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Robin Scott Urry, Debra K. Cloward, Dustin Payne, Matthew J. Prince, Craig Hayden, Timothy M. Snelling
  • Publication number: 20230011437
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system and methods for monitoring a medical process. The system can include a plurality of electrodes coupled with a medical device, and a monitoring module electrically coupled with the plurality of electrodes, the module including logic stored in memory that, when executed by one or more processors, causes performance of operations including transmitting an electrical signal between a first electrode and a second electrode, determining an electrical impedance between the first electrode and the second electrode, and providing a notification to the operator when the determined electrical impedance is outside a predefined impedance range. The system can include logic stored in memory that, when executed by one or more processors, causes performance of operations including transmitting an electrical signal between a first distal electrode and a second proximal electrode and determining an electrical impedance between the electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Steffan Sowards, Anthony K. Misener, Robin Scott Urry, William Robert McLaughlin, Shayne Messerly
  • Publication number: 20220401702
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are impedance-determining medical systems. An impedance-determining medical system can include an impedance interrogator and an impedance-sensing medical device. The impedance interrogator can include instructions configured to instantiate one or more processes in random-access memory upon processing by one or more processors that determine impedance from electrical signals corresponding to electrical currents passed through a biological or non-biological material. The impedance-sensing medical device can include two or more longitudinal conductors distributed among one or more pieces of the impedance-sensing medical device and separated by one or more longitudinal insulators. The two-or-more conductors can be configured to emit, detect, or alternately emit and detect via two or more electrodes thereof the electrical currents passed through the biological or non-biological material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Anthony K. Misener, Steffan Sowards, Robin Scott Urry
  • Publication number: 20220347433
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are magnetically trackable stylets and methods thereof. A magnetically trackable stylet can include a stylet body including a core wire, a magnetic assembly, and an outer construction over the core wire and the magnetic assembly. The magnetic assembly can include one or more magnetic field-producing elements disposed alongside the core wire in a magnetically trackable distal portion of the stylet body. The outer construction, which can be an overmolded layer, a reflowed layer, a potting layer, or a shrink-wrapped layer, can be around the core wire and the magnetic assembly. The stylet body can be configured to be disposed in a lumen of a medical device such as a catheter for magnetically tracking a tip of the medical device in vivo without breakage of the stylet body due to bending-related fatigue. A method of such a magnetically trackable stylet can include a method of using the stylet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Davis, Breanna E. Lackey, Edward D. Bell, Robin Scott Urry, Daniel B. Blanchard, Shawn Ray Isaacson, Bradley J. VanderStek, Taylor Matthew Eley, Austin Russon, Huy Ngoc Tran
  • Publication number: 20220280246
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for ultrasound-and-bioimpedance-based guidance of medical devices. A system can include an ultrasound probe, a needle, a console, and a display screen. The ultrasound probe is configured to emit ultrasound pulses and receive reflected ultrasound pulses reflected back through one or more tissues for producing ultrasound images. The needle can be configured to emit, detect, or alternately emit and detect electrical currents passed through the one-or-more tissues disposed between a pair or more of system electrodes for measuring bioimpedance. The console can be configured to instantiate one or more console processes for the ultrasound-and-bioimpedance-based guidance with the ultrasound probe and the needle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Shayne Messerly, Anthony K. Misener, Steffan Sowards, Robin Scott Urry
  • Publication number: 20220062586
    Abstract: A system for magnetic field direction detection when placing a catheter is disclosed, including a sensor configured to track a medical device, the sensor including a magnetic sensor printed circuit board including a plurality of magnetometers arranged in a magnetometer array. The system can include a console coupled to the sensor, including a processor and non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored a plurality of logic modules that when executed by the processor, are configured to perform operations including receiving detected magnetic field strength values detected by the plurality of magnetometers, determining a position on the sensor of each of the plurality of magnetometers, determining the magnetic field source direction based on the detected magnetic field strength values and the position on the sensor of each of the plurality of magnetometers, and displaying the magnetic field source direction on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Robin Scott Urry
  • Publication number: 20220054147
    Abstract: An intraosseous access system to access a medullary cavity includes a driver including an access assembly, a motor, and an energy source. The intraosseous access system further includes a sensor configured to detect a first input from one of the motor or the energy source. The intraosseous access system further including a processing unit, communicatively coupled with the sensor, configured to receive the first input from the sensor, and determine access to a medullary cavity. The processing unit can then modify operation of one of the motor and the energy source to automatically stop operation of the system and prevent backwalling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventor: Robin Scott Urry
  • Patent number: D584700
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Urry, Roger T. Johnsen, Robin Scott Urry