Patents by Inventor Sean Saint

Sean Saint 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: 12251536
    Abstract: A portable insulin pump can integrate and display data from a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) to allow a user to more readily determine whether any interaction with the pump is necessary. Data from the CGM can automatically be transmitted to the pump and can be displayed for user analysis or automatically analyzed to present recommendations to the user based on combined data from the CGM and the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Rosinko, Sean Saint, Jason Farnan, Shaun Buchanan
  • Patent number: 12226608
    Abstract: A method of infusing liquid medicaments including insulin via an insulin pump, includes identifying an insulin delivery protocol associated with ingestion of carbohydrates wherein the insulin delivery protocol is likely to lead to a postprandial drop in blood glucose to a level below a basal level, then proposing at least one alternative insulin delivery protocol to inhibit the postprandial drop in blood glucose by delivering a metered amount of insulin that is appropriate to facilitate the metabolism of the carbohydrates without the postprandial blood glucose level drop. The invention further includes querying the patient as to whether to apply the alternative insulin delivery protocol, receiving instructions from the patient in response to the query, and applying the alternative insulin delivery protocol following receiving instructions from the patient to apply the alternative insulin delivery protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventor: Sean Saint
  • Publication number: 20250050030
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for administering and tracking medicine to patients and providing health management capabilities for patients and caregivers. In some aspects, a system includes an injection pen device including a dose setting mechanism, a dispensing mechanism, and an electronics unit to generate dose data associated with a dispensing event of a dose of the medicine dispensed from the injection pen device and time data associated with the dispensing event; a mobile device in wireless communication to receive and process the dose data; and a software application configured to determine a recommended dose based on health data and contextual data associated with a user of the injection pen device, the software application including a learning dose calculator module to adaptively calculate the recommended dose of the medicine based on time-relevant and circumstances-relevant data specific to the user of the injection pen device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Sean Saint, Mike Mensinger, Arnold Holmquist, Jack Pryor
  • Patent number: 12220559
    Abstract: Provided is a system for delivering and recording a dose of a medicament to a patient. Also provided is a method of administering a medicament to a patient. Additionally provided is a method of tracking usage of a medicament by a patient through a pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Robert Mensinger, Sean Saint
  • Patent number: 12128219
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for administering and tracking medicine to patients and providing health management capabilities for patients and caregivers. In some aspects, a system includes an injection pen device including a dose setting mechanism, a dispensing mechanism, and an electronics unit to generate dose data associated with a dispensing event of a dose of the medicine dispensed from the injection pen device and time data associated with the dispensing event; a mobile device in wireless communication to receive and process the dose data; and a software application configured to determine a recommended dose based on health data and contextual data associated with a user of the injection pen device, the software application including a learning dose calculator module to adaptively calculate the recommended dose of the medicine based on time-relevant and circumstances-relevant data specific to the user of the injection pen device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Saint, Mike Mensinger, Arnold Holmquist, Jack Pryor
  • Patent number: 12119100
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for administering and tracking medicine to patients and providing health management capabilities for patients and caregivers. In some aspects, a system includes an injection pen device in communication with a mobile communication device having a software application to determine a recommended dose based on prior dose data, analyte data, and nutrient data and to generate a report illustrative of a relationship between the medicine data, the health data, and the contextual data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Mensinger, Sean Saint
  • Publication number: 20240331830
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for administering and tracking medicine to patients and providing health management capabilities for patients and caregivers. In some aspects, a system includes an injection pen device in communication with a mobile communication device having a software application to determine a recommended dose based on prior dose data, analyte data, and nutrient data and to generate a report illustrative of a relationship between the medicine data, the health data, and the contextual data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Mensinger, Sean Saint
  • Patent number: 12027249
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are disclosed for a prescription-regulated software application and an associated medical device. In some aspects, a smart medicine-injection device (e.g., smart insulin pen) is configured to be in communication with a patient's companion device (e.g., smartphone) having a software application (prescription app) that serves the patient as a complimentary medical device to the smart medicine-injection device, in which only certain features and functionalities of the prescription app are fully operable based on device pairing with the smart medicine-injection device to unlock medical device capabilities only available to the patient through prescription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Saint, Jasper Benke
  • Patent number: 11948671
    Abstract: Intelligent (smart) tracking accessories for a medicine dispensing device, such as an injection pen or pen device, are described. A smart tracking accessory in the form of a smart cap for a medicine dispensing device, such as an insulin pen, is configured to protect the needle of the dispensing device and the medicine contained therein when the device is not in use. The smart cap may detect the presence of the medicine dispensing device, detect an activation event such as removal from the medicine dispensing device, inform the user whether it is safe to administer a therapeutic dose of medicine, and log occurrence of the dosing event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Pryor, Arnold Holmquist, Michael Mensinger, Sean Saint, Cory McCluskey
  • Patent number: 11878151
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for administering and tracking medicine to patients and providing health management capabilities for patients and caregivers. In some aspects, an intelligent medicine administering system includes a medicine injection device having a multi-channel encoder that detects fault conditions (e.g., such as open or short circuits) and a patient user's companion device including a software application operable to implement algorithms for detecting faults and communication loss and alerting the patient user for safety and fail-safes of the medicine injection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Saint, Jack Pryor, Arnold Holmquist
  • Publication number: 20230380729
    Abstract: Systems and methods of use for continuous analyte measurement of a host's vascular system are provided. In some embodiments, a continuous glucose measurement system includes a vascular access device, a sensor and sensor electronics, the system being configured for insertion into communication with a host's circulatory system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Apurv Ullas Kamath, Jacob S. Leach, Ying Li, Daiting Rong, Sean Saint, Peter C. Simpson, Mark Brister
  • Patent number: 11826555
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for tracking delivery of medication. In one aspect, a medication delivery tracking device can interface with and be physically placed on a medication delivery pen device. The medication delivery tracking device can detect an occurrence of a delivery of a medication by the medication delivery pen device. In some implementations, the medication delivery tracking device can detect a dose amount of the medication delivered by the medication delivery pen device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Saint, Jack Pryor, Arnold Holmquist
  • Publication number: 20230290477
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are disclosed for a prescription-regulated software application and an associated medical device. In some aspects, a smart medicine-injection device (e.g., smart insulin pen) is configured to be in communication with a patient's companion device (e.g., smartphone) having a software application (prescription app) that serves the patient as a complimentary medical device to the smart medicine-injection device, in which only certain features and functionalities of the prescription app are fully operable based on device pairing with the smart medicine-injection device to unlock medical device capabilities only available to the patient through prescription.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Sean Saint, Jasper Benke
  • Publication number: 20230277761
    Abstract: A method of infusing liquid medicaments including insulin via an insulin pump, includes identifying an insulin delivery protocol associated with ingestion of carbohydrates wherein the insulin delivery protocol is likely to lead to a postprandial drop in blood glucose to a level below a basal level, then proposing at least one alternative insulin delivery protocol to inhibit the postprandial drop in blood glucose by delivering a metered amount of insulin that is appropriate to facilitate the metabolism of the carbohydrates without the postprandial blood glucose level drop. The invention further includes querying the patient as to whether to apply the alternative insulin delivery protocol, receiving instructions from the patient in response to the query, and applying the alternative insulin delivery protocol following receiving instructions from the patient to apply the alternative insulin delivery protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Sean Saint
  • Publication number: 20230241318
    Abstract: Provided is a system for delivering and recording a dose of a medicament to a patient. Also provided is a method of administering a medicament to a patient Additionally provided is a method of tracking usage of a medicament by a patient through a pen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Robert Mensinger, Sean Saint
  • Publication number: 20230197237
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for administering and tracking medicine to patients and providing health management capabilities for patients and caregivers. In some aspects, a system includes an injection pen device in communication with a mobile communication device having a software application to determine a recommended dose based on prior dose data, analyte data, and nutrient data and to generate a report illustrative of a relationship between the medicine data, the health data, and the contextual data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Mensinger, Sean Saint
  • Publication number: 20230191027
    Abstract: A portable insulin pump can integrate and display data from a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) to allow a user to more readily determine whether any interaction with the pump is necessary. Data from the CGM can automatically be transmitted to the pump and can be displayed for user analysis or automatically analyzed to present recommendations to the user based on combined data from the CGM and the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Rosinko, Sean Saint, Jason Farnan, Shaun Buchanan
  • Patent number: 11664107
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are disclosed for a prescription-regulated software application and an associated medical device. In some aspects, a smart medicine-injection device (e.g., smart insulin pen) is configured to be in communication with a patient's companion device (e.g., smartphone) having a software application (prescription app) that serves the patient as a complimentary medical device to the smart medicine-injection device, in which only certain features and functionalities of the prescription app are fully operable based on device pairing with the smart medicine-injection device to unlock medical device capabilities only available to the patient through prescription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Sean Saint, Jasper Benke
  • Publication number: 20230145568
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for administering a medicament to a patient. In one aspect, a system includes an injection pen device in wireless communication with a mobile communication device. The injection pen device includes a housing including a chamber to encase a cartridge containing medicine, a dose setting and dispensing mechanism to set the mechanism to dispense a particular dose of the medicine from the loaded cartridge, a sensor unit to detect a dispensed dose based on positions and/or movements of the dose setting and dispensing mechanism, and an electronics unit in communication with the sensor unit to process the detected dispensed dose and time data associated with a dispensing event and to wirelessly transmit the dose data to a user's device. The mobile communication device provides a software application to provide the user with health information using the processed dose data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Sean Saint, Arnold Holmquist, Cory McCluskey, Jack Pryor, Jasper Benke
  • Patent number: 11628255
    Abstract: Provided is a system for delivering and recording a dose of a medicament to a patient. Also provided is a method of administering a medicament to a patient. Additionally provided is a method of tracking usage of a medicament by a patient through a pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Robert Mensinger, Sean Saint