Patents by Inventor Scott D. Augustine

Scott D. Augustine 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: 20090223368
    Abstract: A filter adapted to be placed within a distal end of a hose for use in products such as a convective air warming system for a patient to reduce airborne contamination. A method of providing filtered airflow to a coverlet of a convective air warming system that includes installing a filter in a distal end of a hose of the convective warming system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: AUGUSTINE BIOMEDICAL AND DESIGN, LLC
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Mark C. Albrecht, Keith J. Leland, Randall C. Arnold
  • Patent number: 7578837
    Abstract: An apparatus for warming a person includes an inflatable cover having two inlet ports and a plug removably received in one of the ports. With the plug received in the one port, the cover can be inflated by way of the port without the plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Arizant Healthcare Inc.
    Inventors: Randall C. Arnold, Scott D. Augustine
  • Patent number: 7543344
    Abstract: A cover includes an enclosure for a heating blanket which is formed between an upper sheet bonded to a lower sheet of the cover. An opening for the enclosure is formed by a panel of the upper sheet which is separable from the lower sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Augustine Biomedical and Design LLC
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Randall C. Arnold, Rudolf A. Deibel, Scott A. Entenman, Keith J. Leland, Thomas F. Neils
  • Publication number: 20090099630
    Abstract: A tuckable electric warming blanket for patient warming and a method of using such a warming blanket. The blanket may be used to warm the lower body of the patient or other portion of the patient's body. The blanket may include one or more rigid stays that extend along the right and left sides of the blanket. The stays assist in fully tucking the blanket under the patient and reduce the potential for bunching up the heating element under the patient. The blanket may also include a flexible, unheated foot portion that is tuckable about the patient's feet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: AUGUSTINE BIOMEDICAL AND DESIGN LLC
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Ryan S. Augustine, Randall C. Arnold
  • Publication number: 20090099631
    Abstract: A multi-zone electric heating blanket. The blanket may be shaped to cover the outstretched arms or other body parts of a patient. The blanket includes first and second body part portions and a connecting bridge. The interconnection via the bridge leaves an open gap between the first and second body part portions for unblocked access to the patient. A power controller may supply power to heating elements in both body part portions based on a temperature sensor in one of the body part portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: AUGUSTINE BIOMEDICAL AND DESIGN LLC
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Ryan S. Augustine, Randall C. Arnold, Keith J. Leland, Joshua P. Waldman, Rudolf A. Deibel, Thomas F. Neils
  • Publication number: 20080308106
    Abstract: A personal air filtration device and methods of using the same for providing a zone of filtered air proximate a breathing zone of a user are described. A blower provides an air flow to a head support which delivers the air flow to a zone proximate the users head. The air flow passes through a filter. The filter can be a point of delivery filter disposed about an air permeable surface of the head support. The delivered air flow can provide a laminar air flow defining a zone of filtered air about the user's breathing zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: AUGUSTINE BIOMEDICAL AND DESIGN, LLC
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Mark C. Albrecht, Randall C. Arnold, Ryan S. Augustine, Ryan Barrows, Andrew McGregor
  • Publication number: 20080307970
    Abstract: A neck-worn personal air filtration device for providing a zone of filtered air around or near a user's breathing zone is described. The device comprises a blower, a hose, and a neck-worn plenum including a filter. Air blown from the blower, passes through the hose and into the plenum exiting the plenum. The air is filtered by a filter for breathing by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: AUGUSTINE BIOMEDICAL AND DESIGN, LLC
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Mark C. Albrecht, Randall C. Arnold, Ryan S. Augustine, Ryan Barrows, Andrew McGregor
  • Publication number: 20080230530
    Abstract: An electric heating blanket including a flexible sheet-like heating element and a shell. The shell covers the heating blanket an includes two sheets of flexible material welded together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: AUGUSTINE BIOMEDICAL AND DESIGN, LLC
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Randall C. Arnold, Ryan S. Augustine, Rudolf A. Deibel, Scott A. Entenman, Gordon D. Lawrence, Keith J. Leland, Thomas F. Neils
  • Patent number: 7244268
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for conveniently and removably sealing inlet ports within an inflatable thermal blanket. In accordance with the present invention a generally planar sheet of material having a plurality of resilient side extensions extending from a central body is used to close an inlet port within an inflatable thermal blanket. In accordance with the preferred invention, the generally circular portion of the central body has a diameter which is slightly smaller than the diameter of the inlet port. Preferably, for extensions extend from the central body each extension being generally circular. Each extension is preferably formed from the same material used to form the central body, and is sufficiently resilient to be easily flexed and to return to an essentially coplanar sheet when released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Arizant Healthcare Inc.
    Inventors: Randall C. Arnold, Scott D. Augustine
  • Patent number: 7122046
    Abstract: A treatment device having a first portion in a first plane, a treatment portion with a cover in a second plane that defines a treatment volume extending between the first and second planes, and a flexible transition portion that connects the first portion to the treatment portion. The treatment portion including a polymeric foam ring having interior and exterior walls extending from the first plane to the second plane. The cover spanning the interior wall thereby forming a closed treatment volume. The polymeric foam ring may be impregnated with a medicament selected from the group including an antibiotic material, an antifungal material, an antimicrobrial material, a deodorant material and nitric oxide. The cover may include a pocket for use with an accessory, such as a heater or mapping grid. A method of treating a treatment area on a patient's skin with the treatment device. The treatment device includes a closed treatment volume having polymeric foam ring impregnated with a medicament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Arizant Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Randall C. Arnold, Gregory P. Hamlin, Donald E. Stapf
  • Patent number: 7101389
    Abstract: A thermal blanket includes an inflatable covering with a head end, a foot end, two edges, and an undersurface. The covering includes a plurality of inflatable chambers that are inflated when a thermal-controlled inflating medium is introduced into the thermal blanket through an inlet at the foot end. When inflated, the thermal blanket self-erects into a structure and provides a bath of thermally-controlled inflating medium to the interior of the erected structure through an aperture array on the undersurface of the inflatable covering. The thermal blanket is constructed for substantially longitudinal disposition over a portion of a patient's body extending from the pelvic area to the feet of the patient's body. Provision may be made for securing the inflatable covering to the patient's body at the head end. Provision may further be made for an uninflatable foot drape at the foot end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Arizant Healthcare Inc.
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Randall C. Arnold
  • Patent number: 7100394
    Abstract: An adaptor enables a convective treatment system to be modified for cooling by providing a bath of pressurized, cooled air intended to lower the body core temperature of a person. The adaptor may be constructed for being coupled between a blower assembly that provides a stream of pressurized air and a convective treatment device that receives the stream of pressurized air, distributes it, and provides it for bathing the body of a person in a general bath of cooled air in order to produce a desired clinical effect such as prevention or alleviation of hyperthermia or for thermal comfort. Such an adaptor may be embodied as an enclosure having a shaped internal cavity. The shape is useful for effectively and efficiently distributing a flow of pressurized over, around and through a bed of ice disposed in the cavity. Ports are provided in the enclosure for introducing a flow of pressurized air into, and receiving a flow of pressurized air from, the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Arizant HealthCare Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Bieberich, Ryan S. Augustine, Scott D. Augustine, Mark Christopher Albrecht
  • Patent number: 7090692
    Abstract: A thermal blanket includes an inflatable covering with a head end, a foot end, two edges and an undersurface. The covering is inflated through an inlet at the foot end by a thermally-controlled inflating medium. An aperture array on the undersurface of the covering exhausts the thermally-controlled inflating medium from the covering. Exhaust port openings are provided at the edges of the covering to vent the inflating medium, which enhances circulation of the thermally-controlled medium through the cover. An uninflatable section is provided at the head end, together with an absorbent bib attached to the covering, adjacent the uninflatable section. When inflated, the thermal blanket self-erects and provides a bath of thermally-controlled inflating medium to the interior of the erected structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Arizant Healthcare Inc.
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Douglas J. Augustine
  • Patent number: 7010221
    Abstract: A fluid warming cassette with a stiffening frame structure and a key mechanism is provided to support a parenteral fluid container. The fluid container is desirably thin to minimize heat exchange inefficiencies. The frame structure permits the thin fluid container to be inserted into the narrow space between fixed position warming plates of a warming unit. The frame structure has a quadrilateral shape with sides and ends. The fluid container is attached, at its periphery to the sides and ends of the frame structure, within the quadrilateral shape. The key mechanism prevents the cassette from being inserted upside down or backwards in a warming unit. Part of the frame structure may be formed into a handle to assist in both the insertion and removal of the cassette from a warming unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Arizant Healthcare Inc.
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Scott A. Entenman, Keith J. Leland, Gary R. Maharaj, Teryl L. Woodwick-Sides
  • Patent number: 7001416
    Abstract: Apparatus and a system for thermally comforting a patient include pneumatic, convective device providing thermal treatment for persons or animals. The pneumatic convective device is adapted to fit around a person's neck and provides convective warming focused or directed primarily on the thorax or body core. The pneumatic convective device includes an inlet, a region in distribution with the inlet for distributing a stream of pressurized, thermally treated air, and a permeable member for emitting pressurized, thermally treated air from the distribution region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Arizant Healthcare Inc.
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Thomas Peter Anderson, Randall C. Arnold
  • Patent number: 6987209
    Abstract: A non-contact wound treatment device suitable for releasable attachment to a patient's skin surface over a selected wound area in a non-contact position relative to the selected wound area, the wound treatment device comprising an attachment portion suitable for releasable attachment with the patient's skin surface, having an inner perimeter for defining the selected wound area, a wound treatment portion with a substantially planar wound cover and a support member supporting the wound cover, and a transition portion with a membrane connecting the wound treatment portion to the attachment portion, the membrane extending around the outer perimeter of the support member and attached to the attachment portion between the inner and outer perimeter of the attachment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Arizant Healthcare Inc.
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, Randall C. Arnold, Gregory P. Hamlin, Donald E. Stapf, Keith J. Leland
  • Patent number: 6921374
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating tissue in a tissue treatment area includes a heater that does not contact the tissue. The apparatus may be attached to the skin of a person to form a treatment volume about the tissue to be treated. The heater, supported at the layer, is held near the tissue to be treated, out of contact with the tissue. The apparatus includes a controller to cause the heater to raise the temperature of tissue in the tissue treatment area to a temperature in a range from a pretreatment temperature to 38° C. The controller may include means that cause the heater to operate over a therapeutic sequence, that cycle the heater on and off, that provide selectable average temperature values, that cause the heater to operate over an average temperature range, that cause the heater to operate at an average temperature over a therapy cycle, or that cause the heater to operate at an average temperature over a therapeutic sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Arizant Healthcare Inc.
    Inventor: Scott D. Augustine
  • Patent number: 6840915
    Abstract: A non-contact controllable heater wound covering and method having a peripheral sealing ring covered by a layer to which is attached a heater and this assembly is attached to the skin with an adhesive so that the heater is held proximate the wound area in a non-contact position. The layer and peripheral sealing ring together define a treatment volume proximate the wound. The wound covering includes a programmable active heater control and the sealing ring may dispense water to control the humidity of the treatment volume. One form of active heat is an electrical resistive filament in variable geometric shapes providing versatility in application of heat to different types of wounds and wound area geometries. Another form of active heat is the transfer of a heated gas to the wound covering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Arizant Healthcare Inc.
    Inventor: Scott D. Augustine
  • Patent number: 6716235
    Abstract: A wound treatment apparatus is provided which includes a bandage that is transparent to, or transmissive of, energy in the infrared (IR) range of the electromagnetic spectrum, a heater that generates heat, and an attachment device for retaining the heater over or on the bandage. The bandage and heater together have a low profile so as to be convenient for a patient, and are flexible so as to conform to the shape of a wound and to contours of the skin near the wound. The bandage is provided with an adhesive pattern for maintaining moisture at the wound site. The heater may maintain a normothermic condition at the wound treatment area. A controller may be provided for cycling the temperature of the heater in order to maintain the normothermic condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Augustine Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott D. Augustine, John P. Rock, Albert P. Van Duren
  • Publication number: 20040060318
    Abstract: An adaptor enables a convective treatment system to be modified for cooling by providing a bath of pressurized, cooled air intended to lower the body core temperature of a person. The adaptor may be constructed for being coupled between a blower assembly that provides a stream of pressurized air and a convective treatment device that receives the stream of pressurized air, distributes it, and provides it for bathing the body of a person in a general bath of cooled air in order to produce a desired clinical effect such as prevention or alleviation of hyperthermia or for thermal comfort. Such an adaptor may be embodied as an enclosure having a shaped internal cavity. The shape is useful for effectively and efficiently distributing a flow of pressurized over, around and through a bed of ice disposed in the cavity. Ports are provided in the enclosure for introducing a flow of pressurized air into, and receiving a flow of pressurized air from, the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Mark Thomas Bieberich, Ryan S. Augustine, Scott D. Augustine, Mark Christopher Albrecht