Patents by Inventor Sean Forde

Sean Forde 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: 20240345115
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a diagnostic system includes an instrument coupled to a client device and having at least one sample processing bay. The diagnostic system has a software architecture including instrument software (ISW) associated with the instrument. The ISW receives an assay definition file (ADF) that has a control file and an assay analysis module (AAM) file. The processing bay prepares and senses the sample according to parameters in the OPUS file and then generates sensor scan data. The diagnostic system then analyzes the sensor scan data and prepares a report according to the AAM file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas NGUYEN, Sean FORD, Nikolas James HANSEN
  • Patent number: 12000847
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a diagnostic system includes an instrument coupled to a client device and having at least one sample processing bay. The diagnostic system has a software architecture including instrument software (ISW) associated with the instrument. The ISW receives an assay definition file (ADF) that has a control file and an assay analysis module (AAM) file. The processing bay prepares and senses the sample according to parameters in the OPUS file and then generates sensor scan data. The diagnostic system then analyzes the sensor scan data and prepares a report according to the AAM file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Nguyen, Sean Ford, Nikolas James Hansen
  • Patent number: 11952618
    Abstract: This invention provides biochip cartridges and instrument devices for the detection and/or analysis of target analytes from patient samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Jon Faiz Kayyem, Jayashankar Srinivasan, Sean Ford
  • Patent number: 11871977
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to devices and methods for diagnosis and treatment of biological tissue in which the tissue is accessed by a catheter through a working channel of an endoscope and in which the degree of extension of a distal tip of the catheter beyond a distal tip of the endoscope is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CSA MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Sean Forde, Sean Arthur McDermott, Brian Hanley
  • Publication number: 20230390759
    Abstract: An assay device includes a first flow channel of a first size and a second flow channel of a second size disposed within a planar substrate, the second size being larger than the first size. The first flow channel is configured to receive a liquid sample and allow a first flow of the liquid sample within the first flow channel whereby a first analyte of the liquid sample is distributed within the first flow channel as a first monolayer. The second flow channel is configured to receive the liquid sample and allow a second flow of the liquid sample within the second flow channel whereby a second analyte of the liquid sample is distributed within the second flow channel as a second monolayer. The first analyte has higher population density within the liquid sample compared to the second analyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Ian Kleinemolen, Armando Tovar, Jeffrey Hawkins, Florence Ying Lee, Peter R. Delmenico, Dena Marrinucci, Sean Ford, Rachel Krupa
  • Patent number: 11529041
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices and methods to guide delivery devices and instruments. Exemplary instrument guides, including for endoscopes as delivery devices for cryogen delivery catheters and to guide cryogen decompression tubes as instruments, and methods for use of such instrument guides for use in body lumens at treatment sites, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CSA Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Forde, Brian M. Hanley, Sean A. McDermott
  • Publication number: 20220381798
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a diagnostic system includes an instrument coupled to a client device and having at least one sample processing bay. The diagnostic system has a software architecture including instrument software (ISW) associated with the instrument. The ISW receives an assay definition file (ADF) that has a control file and an assay analysis module (AAM) file. The processing bay prepares and senses the sample according to parameters in the OPUS file and then generates sensor scan data. The diagnostic system then analyzes the sensor scan data and prepares a report according to the AAM file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas NGUYEN, Sean FORD, Nikolas James HANSEN
  • Patent number: 11300578
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a diagnostic system includes an instrument coupled to a client device and having at least one sample processing bay. The diagnostic system has a software architecture including instrument software (ISW) associated with the instrument. The ISW receives an assay definition file (ADF) that has a control file and an assay analysis module (AAM) file. The processing bay prepares and senses the sample according to parameters in the OPUS file and then generates sensor scan data. The diagnostic system then analyzes the sensor scan data and prepares a report according to the AAM file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Nguyen, Sean Ford, Nikolas James Hansen
  • Patent number: 11156508
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved methods that allow accurate monitoring and/or control of temperature changes in a microfluidic environment. An advantage of the present invention is that the temperature can be monitored and/or controlled at any location within a microfluidic device, especially where a preparation step, an amplification step and/or a detection step is performed. The invention further provides improved microfluidic devices for practicing the methods disclosed and claimed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamed Shadpour, Sean Ford, Jorge Alberto Garces, Darren S. Gray
  • Publication number: 20210147917
    Abstract: This invention provides biochip cartridges and instrument devices for the detection and/or analysis of target analytes from patient samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: GenMark Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Faiz Kayyem, Jayashankar Srinivasan, Sean Ford
  • Patent number: 10495656
    Abstract: This invention provides biochip cartridges and instrument devices for the detection and/or analysis of target analytes from patient samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: GenMark Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Faiz Kayyem, Jayashankar Srinivasan, Sean Ford
  • Publication number: 20190254733
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices and, in particular, the present disclosure relates to methods and devices to enhance radial spray from a catheter, such as devices with flow distribution elements for a radial spray catheter, including for radial cryospray catheters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: George A. Downey, John P. O'Connor, Thomas I. Mulcahey, Daniel J. Grasso, Sean Forde, Alexander Paloranta
  • Publication number: 20190254699
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices and methods to guide delivery devices and instruments. Exemplary instrument guides, including for endoscopes as delivery devices for cryogen delivery catheters and to guide cryogen decompression tubes as instruments, and methods for use of such instrument guides for use in body lumens at treatment sites, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Sean Forde, Brian M. Hanley, Sean A. McDermott
  • Patent number: 10368942
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to devices and methods for treating cardiac tissue, including percutaneous closure of cardiac openings such as a patent foramen ovale (PFO) and obliteration of the cardiac cul-de-sacs. The invention includes a device having at least one elongated member. The elongated member has a first material and a second material interwoven with at least a portion of the first material. The second material is capable of transferring energy to tissue in need of treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Sean Forde
  • Publication number: 20190232279
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for displacing a liquid, gas or solid from a compressible pouch. The compressible pouch is housed in an external housing with holes over the compressible pouch and a label over the external housing/holes and compressible pouch. The label comprises perforations configured to allow a chad to separate but not detach from the label. When a compressive force is applied to the label, the chad separates (but does not detach) from the label allowing the compressive force to be applied to the compressible pouch below and force the fluid, gas or solid from the compressible pouch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: GenMark Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler David Jensen, Sean Ford, Eric Villarreal, Andrew David Fish
  • Publication number: 20180245993
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved methods that allow accurate monitoring and/or control of temperature changes in a microfluidic environment. An advantage of the present invention is that the temperature can be monitored and/or controlled at any location within a microfluidic device, especially where a preparation step, an amplification step and/or a detection step is performed. The invention further provides improved microfluidic devices for practicing the methods disclosed and claimed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: GenMark Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamed Shadpour, Sean Ford, Jorge Alberto Garces, Darren S. Gray
  • Publication number: 20180223345
    Abstract: This invention provides biochip cartridges and instrument devices for the detection and/or analysis of target analytes from patient samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: GenMark Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Faiz KAYYEM, Jayashankar SRINIVASAN, Sean FORD
  • Publication number: 20180180605
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods directed to an electrode initialization step for the electrochemical treatment of monolayers used in electrochemical detection of target analytes on the surface of a monolayer. Electrode initialization creates a more stable monolayer, and resolves variability within the electrochemical signal detected on the monolayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: GENMARK DIAGNOSTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jon Faiz Kayyem, Ken Rusterholz, William Bender, Sean Ford, Claudia C. Argueta
  • Patent number: 10005080
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a multiplex fluid processing cartridge includes a sample well, a deformable fluid chamber, a mixing well with a mixer disposed therein, a lysis chamber including a lysis mixer, an electrowetting grid for microdroplet manipulation, and electrosensor arrays configured to detect analytes of interest. An instrument for processing the cartridge is configured to receive the cartridge and to selectively apply thermal energy, magnetic force, and electrical connections to one or more discrete locations on the cartridge and is further configured to compress the deformable chamber(s) in a specified sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignees: GENMARK DIAGNOSTICS, INC., ADVANCED LIQUID LOGIC, INC.
    Inventors: Jon Faiz Kayyem, Sean Ford, Vamsee K. Pamula, Vijay Srinivasan, Scott Corey, Brian Murphy, David Walter Wright, Dominic Aiello
  • Patent number: D881409
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: GenMark Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Faiz Kayyem, Tyler David Jensen, Bradford Frederick Tieman, Darren S Gray, Sean Ford, Dominic Aiello, Peter Kroehl