Patents by Inventor Steven M. Cohen
Steven M. Cohen 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).
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Patent number: 11197819Abstract: An extended-release bio absorbable subcutaneous medicinal dosage delivery implant system includes an implant fabricated from a highly homogeneously mixed composition including a medicinal agent in combination with release controlling polymers which include poly (DL-lactide) and polycaprolactone. In one implementation for treating an opioid disease, the formulation composition includes naltrexone at 40 weight percent, poly (DL-lactide) in the range between 36 and 46.4 weight percent, and polycaprolactone in the range between 24 and 11.6 weight percent. In addition, in order to provide anti-biofouling quality and prevent foreign body adsorption/interaction with the material of the implant, polyethylene glycol is added in a preferred content of 2.0%. The manufacturing process includes hot melt extrusion and a mini jet based implant formation stage with the optimized process space were the temperature of the process ranges from 170° C.-180° C.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Drug Delivery Company, LLCInventors: Jeffrey D. Benner, Steven M. Cohen, Naresh Kumar Reddy Vutukuru, Pushkar Shrinivas Kulkarni, Srinivasan Shanmugam
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Patent number: 11039746Abstract: A contact lens assembly for non-sliding, non-sutured, hands-free ophthalmic procedures utilizes a magnetically actuated anchoring mechanism operatively coupled between the contact lens assembly and a modified eye speculum applied to eyelids during ophthalmic procedure. The anchoring mechanism is configured with magnetically cooperating anchoring members, one coupled to the contact lens assembly, and another secured to a wire loop member of the modified eye speculum. After the eye speculum is applied to the eyelids to displace and stabilize the eyelids and secure the anchoring member in place, and the contact lens assembly is placed on the cornea of the eye and centered, he magnetically cooperating anchoring members are brought in contact, and thus secure the contact lens assembly at the surgical site.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Drug Delivery Company, LLCInventors: Jeffrey D. Benner, Steven M. Cohen, Christopher Forrest Lumpkin
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Patent number: 10307289Abstract: A subcutaneous implant system is applicable in a variety of surgical procedures and includes a balloon shaped implant formed from a bioresorbable material and is capable of assuming deflated and inflated configurations. The balloon shaped implant is inserted, in its deflated configuration, into the patient's body, and subsequently is inflated by filling the balloon shaped implant with a medicinal agent. The balloon shaped implant filled with the medicinal agent remains in the body and permits a steady-state release of the medicinal agent therefrom. The balloon shaped implant has a wall which may be formed from either a solid material which is impermeable to the medicinal agent, or a porous material. The medicinal agent egresses from the interior of the balloon shaped member in a controlled manner provided by a mechanism which may include a permeable membrane, a check valve, a flap valve, openings in a porous wall of the balloon shaped member, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Drug Delivery Company, LLCInventors: Jeffrey D. Benner, Steven M. Cohen, Christopher Forrest Lumpkin
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Patent number: 10258233Abstract: A non-sliding, non-sutured hands-free contact lens assembly for ophthalmic procedures utilizes a number of microstructures strategically placed on the bottom of either the contact lens or the bottom of a contact lens holder ring. After the contact lens, or the contact lens assembled with the contact lens holder ring, is placed on the cornea of the eye and centered, a surgeon applies downward pressure either on the contact lens itself or on the lens holder ring. This secures the lens assembly to the cornea due to increased friction between the microstructures and the tissues of the eye when the microstructures penetrate through the tear film and, optionally, viscous solution film and into the contact with superficial layer of cornea or other parts of the eye, thus temporarily anchoring the contact lens, or lens holder, to the desired surgical site.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Drug Delivery Company, LLCInventors: Jeffrey D. Benner, Steven M. Cohen, Christopher Forrest Lumpkin
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Publication number: 20180177394Abstract: A non-sliding, non-sutured hands-free contact lens assembly for ophthalmic procedures utilizes a number of microstructures strategically placed on the bottom of either the contact lens or the bottom of a contact lens holder ring. After the contact lens, or the contact lens assembled with the contact lens holder ring, is placed on the cornea of the eye and centered, a surgeon applies downward pressure either on the contact lens itself or on the lens holder ring. This secures the lens assembly to the cornea due to increased friction between the microstructures and the tissues of the eye when the microstructures penetrate through the tear film and, optionally, viscous solution film and into the contact with superficial layer of cornea or other parts of the eye, thus temporarily anchoring the contact lens, or lens holder, to the desired surgical site.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: JEFFREY D. BENNER, STEVEN M. COHEN, CHRISTOPHER FORREST LUMPKIN
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Patent number: 9936871Abstract: A non-sliding, non-sutured hands-free contact lens assembly for ophthalmic procedures utilizes a number of microstructures strategically placed on the bottom of either the contact lens or the bottom of a contact lens holder ring. After the contact lens, or the contact lens assembled with the contact lens holder ring, is placed on the cornea of the eye and centered, a surgeon applies downward pressure either on the contact lens itself or on the lens holder ring. This secures the lens assembly to the cornea due to increased friction between the microstructures and the tissues of the eye when the microstructures penetrate through the tear film and, optionally, viscous solution film and into the contact with superficial layer of cornea or other parts of the eye, thus temporarily anchoring the contact lens, or lens holder, to the desired surgical site.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Drug Delivery Company, LLCInventors: Jeffrey D. Benner, Steven M. Cohen, Christopher Forrest Lumpkin
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Publication number: 20180049918Abstract: A subcutaneous implant system is applicable in a variety of surgical procedures and includes a balloon shaped implant formed from a bioresorbable material and is capable of assuming deflated and inflated configurations. The balloon shaped implant is inserted, in its deflated configuration, into the patient's body, and subsequently is inflated by filling the balloon shaped implant with a medicinal agent. The balloon shaped implant filled with the medicinal agent remains in the body and permits a steady-state release of the medicinal agent therefrom. The balloon shaped implant has a wall which may be formed from either a solid material which is impermeable to the medicinal agent, or a porous material. The medicinal agent egresses from the interior of the balloon shaped member in a controlled manner provided by a mechanism which may include a permeable membrane, a check valve, a flap valve, openings in a porous wall of the balloon shaped member, and combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: JEFFREY D. BENNER, STEVEN M. COHEN, CHRISTOPHER FORREST LUMPKIN
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Publication number: 20170311801Abstract: A non-sliding, non-sutured hands-free contact lens assembly for ophthalmic procedures utilizes a number of microstructures strategically placed on the bottom of either the contact lens or the bottom of a contact lens holder ring. After the contact lens, or the contact lens assembled with the contact lens holder ring, is placed on the cornea of the eye and centered, a surgeon applies downward pressure either on the contact lens itself or on the lens holder ring. This secures the lens assembly to the cornea due to increased friction between the microstructures and the tissues of the eye when the microstructures penetrate through the tear film and, optionally, viscous solution film and into the contact with superficial layer of cornea or other parts of the eye, thus temporarily anchoring the contact lens, or lens holder, to the desired surgical site.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: JEFFREY D. BENNER, STEVEN M. COHEN, CHRISTOPHER FORREST LUMPKIN
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Patent number: 9452083Abstract: A bioresorbable drug eluting intravitreal implant system includes a syringe with a chamber containing a medicinal drug. A balloon is releasably secured to a needle where the needle has a central section chamber in fluid communication with a chamber in the syringe. The needle central section has an opening formed through a wall for transporting the medicinal drug to the interior of the balloon subsequent to insertion of the needle through the sclera of a patient's eye.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Drug Delivery Company, LLCInventors: Jeffrey D. Benner, Steven M. Cohen
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Patent number: 9445941Abstract: A bioresorbable drug eluting intravitreal implant system includes a syringe with a chamber containing a medicinal drug. A balloon is releasably secured to a needle where the needle has a central section chamber in fluid communication with a chamber in the syringe. The needle central section has an opening formed through a wall for transporting the medicinal drug to the interior of the balloon subsequent to insertion of the needle through the sclera of a patient's eye.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Drug Delivery Company, LLCInventors: Jeffrey D. Benner, Steven M. Cohen
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Publication number: 20150282983Abstract: A bioresorbable drug eluting intravitreal implant system includes a syringe with a chamber containing a medicinal drug. A balloon is releasably secured to a needle where the needle has a central section chamber in fluid communication with a chamber in the syringe. The needle central section has an opening formed through a wall for transporting the medicinal drug to the interior of the balloon subsequent to insertion of the needle through the sclera of a patient's eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: JEFFREY D. BENNER, STEVEN M. COHEN
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Publication number: 20150133896Abstract: A bioresorbable drug eluting intravitreal implant system includes a syringe with a chamber containing a medicinal drug. A balloon is releasably secured to a needle where the needle has a central section chamber in fluid communication with a chamber in the syringe. The needle central section has an opening formed through a wall for transporting the medicinal drug to the interior of the balloon subsequent to insertion of the needle through the sclera of a patient's eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: JEFFREY D. BENNER, STEVEN M. COHEN
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Patent number: 9027184Abstract: An acupressure pillow includes pressure members that are interconnected by an elastic member and arranged so that, when the user rests a body part (e.g., head or neck) on the pillow between the pressure members, the pressure members automatically adjust to accommodate the body part and produce pressure on the body part due at least in part to the elastic member, which biases the pressure members toward one another. Thus, the pressure exerted on the body part may have different vector components, including some pressure produced essentially perpendicular to the pillow surface on which the body part rests and some pressure produced at other angles due to the shape of the pressure members and the inward force on the pressure members produced by the elastic member.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Inventor: Steven M. Cohen
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Publication number: 20140259422Abstract: An acupressure pillow includes pressure members that are interconnected by an elastic member and arranged so that, when the user rests a body part (e.g., head or neck) on the pillow between the pressure members, the pressure members automatically adjust to accommodate the body part and produce pressure on the body part due at least in part to the elastic member, which biases the pressure members toward one another. Thus, the pressure exerted on the body part may have different vector components, including some pressure produced essentially perpendicular to the pillow surface on which the body part rests and some pressure produced at other angles due to the shape of the pressure members and the inward force on the pressure members produced by the elastic member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventor: Steven M. Cohen
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Patent number: 7359730Abstract: The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for reducing interference associated with wireless communication in an area having sensitive electronic equipment. A wireless communications device receives, from an access point, a signal having a signal strength above a predetermined threshold. The wireless communications device determines a transmission power level maximum based on the received signal and then transmits a signal to the access point at a transmission power level at or below the transmission power level maximum. The wireless communications device disables the transmission when the signal strength falls below the predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Telecordia Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gary J. Dennis, Steven M. Cohen, James L. Dixon
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Patent number: 5106332Abstract: An improved noise making device (10) particularly suited for use in stadiums, arenas and the like comprises a flexible, planar member of "whooping plate" (12), and a handle (14), both preferably comprised of plastic, the ends of the handle (14) being joined to the ends of the planar member (12) with the central section of the handle bowed outwardly from the planar member, such that when the handle is gripped and thrust forward and backward, the planar member bows inwardly and outwardly, thereby generating a loud noise. Suitable indicia, such as a team logo or advertising message, may be imprinted on the outer surface of the planar member.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1990Date of Patent: April 21, 1992Assignee: M. H. Segan & Company, Inc.Inventors: Marc H. Segan, Steven M. Cohen
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Patent number: 5047749Abstract: An intruder alarm includes a circuit with a photoresistive cell located in a housing with a piezoelectric crystal sound generator and battery to power the circuit and sound generator. A telescope concentrates light from a distance in a limited field of view upon the photoresistive cell to trigger the piezoelectric crystal sound generator when light intensity on the cell changes sufficiently from an ambient light intensity level.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1990Date of Patent: September 10, 1991Assignee: Tyco Industries, Inc.Inventors: Marc H. Segan, Michael R. Newsome, Steven M. Cohen