Patents by Inventor Thomas Wilkes
Thomas Wilkes 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: 11717284Abstract: The present invention provides novel medical devices for use in surgical procedures and methods for manufacturing novel medical devices. In some embodiments, the novel medical devices can include surgical needles that are capable of being repeatedly passed through tissue using minimal force. More particularly, the surgical needles can be manufactured with one or more coatings that provide the surgical needles with both durability and lubricity for ease of repeated and successive passes through tissue. Novel methods for manufacturing the surgical needles and for providing and applying coatings to the surgical needles are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Robert Maurer, S. Neil Bar, Eric Hinrichs, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Wilkes
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Patent number: 10939907Abstract: The present invention provides novel medical devices for use in surgical procedures and methods for manufacturing novel medical devices. In some embodiments, the novel medical devices can include surgical needles that are capable of being repeatedly passed through tissue using minimal force. More particularly, the surgical needles can be manufactured with one or more coatings that provide the surgical needles with both durability and lubricity for ease of repeated and successive passes through tissue. Novel methods for manufacturing the surgical needles and for providing and applying coatings to the surgical needles are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Ethicon LLCInventors: Robert Maurer, S. Neil Bar, Eric Hinrichs, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Wilkes
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Publication number: 20210007735Abstract: The present invention provides novel medical devices for use in surgical procedures and methods for manufacturing novel medical devices. In some embodiments, the novel medical devices can include surgical needles that are capable of being repeatedly passed through tissue using minimal force. More particularly, the surgical needles can be manufactured with one or more coatings that provide the surgical needles with both durability and lubricity for ease of repeated and successive passes through tissue. Novel methods for manufacturing the surgical needles and for providing and applying coatings to the surgical needles are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Robert Maurer, S. Neil Bar, Eric Hinrichs, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Wilkes
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Publication number: 20180235606Abstract: The present invention provides novel medical devices for use in surgical procedures and methods for manufacturing novel medical devices. In some embodiments, the novel medical devices can include surgical needles that are capable of being repeatedly passed through tissue using minimal force. More particularly, the surgical needles can be manufactured with one or more coatings that provide the surgical needles with both durability and lubricity for ease of repeated and successive passes through tissue. Novel methods for manufacturing the surgical needles and for providing and applying coatings to the surgical needles are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Robert Maurer, S. Neil Bar, Eric Hinrichs, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Wilkes
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Patent number: 10004494Abstract: The present invention provides novel medical devices for use in surgical procedures and methods for manufacturing novel medical devices. In some embodiments, the novel medical devices can include surgical needles that are capable of being repeatedly passed through tissue using minimal force. More particularly, the surgical needles can be manufactured with one or more coatings that provide the surgical needles with both durability and lubricity for ease of repeated and successive passes through tissue. Novel methods for manufacturing the surgical needles and for providing and applying coatings to the surgical needles are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Ethicon, LLCInventors: Robert Maurer, S. Neil Bar, Eric Hinrichs, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Wilkes
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Patent number: 9587466Abstract: A method for abandonment of a subsea well includes: setting a packer of a lower cementing tool against a bore of an inner casing at a location adjacent to an outer casing; fastening a pressure control assembly (PCA) to the subsea wellhead; hanging an upper cementing tool from the PCA and stabbing the upper cementing tool into a polished bore receptacle of the lower cementing tool; perforating a wall of the inner casing below the packer; perforating the inner casing wall above the packer by operating a perforator of the upper cementing tool; and pumping cement slurry followed by a release plug through bores of the cementing tools. The release plug engages and launches a cementing plug from the lower cementing tool. The cementing plug drives the cement slurry through the perforations below the packer and into an inner annulus formed between the inner casing and the outer casing.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Wild Well Control, Inc.Inventors: Philip Martial Burguieres, Corey Eugene Hoffman, Stephen Paul Breaux, Kenneth Thomas Wilke
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Publication number: 20170014048Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus for collecting respiratory samples with a support structure designed to be wearable by a subject. The apparatus includes a sample collector and a tubing system for collecting and delivering the sample. Optionally, the sample collector and/or the tubing system is movable between a first and a second position to gain access to the mouth and/or nose of the patient. Wearable support device for and method of breath sampling are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2015Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventor: Thomas A. Wilke
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Publication number: 20160157859Abstract: The present invention provides novel medical devices for use in surgical procedures and methods for manufacturing novel medical devices. In some embodiments, the novel medical devices can include surgical needles that are capable of being repeatedly passed through tissue using minimal force. More particularly, the surgical needles can be manufactured with one or more coatings that provide the surgical needles with both durability and lubricity for ease of repeated and successive passes through tissue. Novel methods for manufacturing the surgical needles and for providing and applying coatings to the surgical needles are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventors: Robert Maurer, S. Neil Bar, Eric Hinrichs, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Wilkes
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Patent number: 9332982Abstract: The present invention provides improved medical devices for use in surgical procedures and methods for manufacturing improved medical devices. In some embodiments, the improved medical devices can include improved surgical needles that are capable of being repeatedly passed through tissue using minimal force. More particularly, the improved surgical needles can be manufactured with two or more different coatings that provide the surgical needles with both durability and lubricity for ease of repeated and successive passes through tissue. Improved methods for manufacturing the surgical needles and for providing and applying coatings to the surgical needles are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Ethicon, LLCInventors: Robert Maurer, S. Neil Bar, Eric Hinrichs, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Wilkes
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Publication number: 20160076341Abstract: A method for abandonment of a subsea well includes: setting a packer of a lower cementing tool against a bore of an inner casing at a location adjacent to an outer casing; fastening a pressure control assembly (PCA) to the subsea wellhead; hanging an upper cementing tool from the PCA and stabbing the upper cementing tool into a polished bore receptacle of the lower cementing tool; perforating a wall of the inner casing below the packer; perforating the inner casing wall above the packer by operating a perforator of the upper cementing tool; and pumping cement slurry followed by a release plug through bores of the cementing tools. The release plug engages and launches a cementing plug from the lower cementing tool. The cementing plug drives the cement slurry through the perforations below the packer and into an inner annulus formed between the inner casing and the outer casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Philip Martial BURGUIERES, Corey Eugene HOFFMAN, Stephen Paul BREAUX, Kenneth Thomas WILKE
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Patent number: 9266145Abstract: The present invention provides improved medical devices for use in surgical procedures and methods for manufacturing improved medical devices. In some embodiments, the improved medical devices can include improved surgical needles that are capable of being repeatedly passed through tissue using minimal force. More particularly, the improved surgical needles can be manufactured with two or more different coatings that provide the surgical needles with both durability and lubricity for ease of repeated and successive passes through tissue. Improved methods for manufacturing the surgical needles and for providing and applying coatings to the surgical needles are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Ethicon, LLCInventors: Robert Maurer, S. Neil Bar, Eric Hinrichs, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Wilkes
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Patent number: 9259219Abstract: The present invention provides novel medical devices for use in surgical procedures and methods for manufacturing novel medical devices. In some embodiments, the novel medical devices can include surgical needles that are capable of being repeatedly passed through tissue using minimal force. More particularly, the surgical needles can be manufactured with one or more coatings that provide the surgical needles with both durability and lubricity for ease of repeated and successive passes through tissue. Novel methods for manufacturing the surgical needles and for providing and applying coatings to the surgical needles are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Ethicon, LLCInventors: Robert Maurer, S. Neil Bar, Eric Hinrichs, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Wilkes
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Patent number: 9221075Abstract: The present invention provides improved medical devices for use in surgical procedures and methods for manufacturing improved medical devices. In some embodiments, the improved medical devices can include improved surgical needles that are capable of being repeatedly passed through tissue using minimal force. More particularly, the improved surgical needles can be manufactured with two or more different coatings that provide the surgical needles with both durability and lubricity for ease of repeated and successive passes through tissue. Improved methods for manufacturing the surgical needles and for providing and applying coatings to the surgical needles are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: Robert Maurer, S. Neil Bar, Eric Hinrichs, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Wilkes
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Patent number: 9034415Abstract: The present invention provides improved medical devices for use in surgical procedures and methods for manufacturing improved medical devices. In some embodiments, the improved medical devices can include improved surgical needles that are capable of being repeatedly passed through tissue using minimal force. More particularly, the improved surgical needles can be manufactured with two or more different coatings that provide the surgical needles with both durability and lubricity for ease of repeated and successive passes through tissue. Improved methods for manufacturing the surgical needles and for providing and applying coatings to the surgical needles are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: Robert Maurer, S. Neil Bar, Eric Hinrichs, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Wilkes
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Patent number: 8923330Abstract: A device may receive first data at a channel over a network, the device having an interface for the channel and other channels. In addition, the device may measure over a particular time interval, a burst size and an information arrival rate at the channel based on received data. The device may also determine whether the burst size is greater than a first burst size metric, the first burst size metric initialized to a committed burst size of the channel. When the burst size is determined to be greater than the first burst size metric, the device may set a second burst size metric to a sum of the first burst size metric and an increment value. Furthermore, the device may determine whether the burst size is greater than the second burst size metric after the second burst size metric is set to the sum of the first burst size metric and the increment value.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Roman Krzanowski, Charles Thomas Wilkes
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Publication number: 20140128912Abstract: Curved surgical needles made from tungsten rhenium alloys are disclosed. The curved surgical needles have body flats. The needles have improved resistance to cracking.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Wilkes, Frank Cichocki
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Publication number: 20130317856Abstract: A system for conveying patient information is configured to receive data related to a patient, and convert the data into event-driven messages for transmission to communication devices carried by physicians and others.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: M2 INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Thomas A. WILKES, Kent HARGRAVE
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Publication number: 20120195326Abstract: A device may receive first data at a channel over a network, the device having an interface for the channel and other channels. In addition, the device may measure over a particular time interval, a burst size and an information arrival rate at the channel based on received data. The device may also determine whether the burst size is greater than a first burst size metric, the first burst size metric initialized to a committed burst size of the channel. When the burst size is determined to be greater than the first burst size metric, the device may set a second burst size metric to a sum of the first burst size metric and an increment value. Furthermore, the device may determine whether the burst size is greater than the second burst size metric after the second burst size metric is set to the sum of the first burst size metric and the increment value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2011Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventors: Roman Krzanowski, Charles Thomas Wilkes
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Publication number: 20120136226Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for determining a physiologic parameter of a patient. Specifically, embodiments provided herein include methods and systems for determining or predicting the presence and/or severity of stress in a patient based on heart rate variability. The information relating to stress may be used as part of a broader physiological assessment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: Nellcor Puritan Bennett LLCInventor: Thomas A. Wilke
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Publication number: 20110112566Abstract: The present invention provides improved medical devices for use in surgical procedures and methods for manufacturing improved medical devices. In some embodiments, the improved medical devices can include improved surgical needles that are capable of being repeatedly passed through tissue using minimal force. More particularly, the improved surgical needles can be manufactured with two or more different coatings that provide the surgical needles with both durability and lubricity for ease of repeated and successive passes through tissue. Improved methods for manufacturing the surgical needles and for providing and applying coatings to the surgical needles are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: ETHICON, INC.Inventors: Robert Maurer, S. Neil Bar, Eric Hinrichs, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Wilkes