Patents by Inventor Tomas Frausto

Tomas Frausto 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: 11974968
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes fluid pathways controllable by valves of the cartridge. A pump component within the cartridge is actuable to move fluid through the controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge includes a needleless fluid port and a needleless vent port for fluid coupling to a vial via a vial puck. The vial puck includes corresponding needleless fluid and vent ports and a cannula. The cannula is extendible, by insertion of a protrusion on the cartridge into a shaft of the vial puck, into the vial to couple the vial to the needleless fluid and vent ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Tomas Frausto, Dereck S. Ferdaws
  • Patent number: 11957641
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes fluid pathways controllable by valves of the cartridge. A pump component within the cartridge is actuable to move fluid through the controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge includes a needle extending from a cartridge body and fluidly coupled to at least one of the controllable fluid pathways. A vial puck is provided for attachment to a vial to be fluidly coupled to the cartridge by the needle. The vial puck may include a hygroscopic member to absorb fluid from the needle to ensure a dry disconnect. A shuttle valve may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Tomas Frausto, Dereck S. Ferdaws
  • Patent number: 11938094
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes fluid pathways controllable by valves of the cartridge. A pump component within the cartridge is actuable to move fluid through the controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge includes a needle extending from a cartridge body and fluidly coupled to at least one of the controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge includes a vacuum bellows that surrounds the needle when the bellows is in an extended configuration. The vacuum bellows is compressible to expose the needle and generates a vacuum condition within the bellows when the bellows is extended from a compressed configuration to the extended configuration. The needle may be a dual-lumen plastic needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Tomas Frausto, Dereck Ferdaws
  • Publication number: 20240058218
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge may include a syringe pump for moving fluid and/or gas, and one or more syringe valves or rotary valves for controlling which of the controllable fluid pathways is open for flow of the fluid and/or gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Todd ODA, Dereck S. FERDAWS, Tomas FRAUSTO
  • Publication number: 20240058522
    Abstract: IV stand assemblies are provided that include a base, a stand, a platform and a motorized pole assembly having a housing, a pole and a drive. The drive moves the pole to extend and retract the pole relative to the housing. A weight measurement assembly measures weight of a fluid within a fluid container hanging from the IV stand assembly. IV stand assemblies with a pulley/belt assembly and methods of operating IV assemblies are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Tomas FRAUSTO, Jason Andrew WINE
  • Patent number: 11844750
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge may include a syringe pump for moving fluid and/or gas, and one or more syringe valves or rotary valves for controlling which of the controllable fluid pathways is open for flow of the fluid and/or gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Dereck S. Ferdaws, Tomas Frausto
  • Patent number: 11839737
    Abstract: IV stand assemblies are provided that include a base, a stand, a platform and a motorized pole assembly having a housing, a pole and a drive. The drive moves the pole to extend and retract the pole relative to the housing. A weight measurement assembly measures weight of a fluid within a fluid container hanging from the IV stand assembly. IV stand assemblies with a pulley/belt assembly and methods of operating IV assemblies are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Tomas Frausto, Jason Andrew Wine
  • Publication number: 20230381486
    Abstract: A needleless connector includes a housing having a central longitudinal axis, a body portion, and a base portion. The body portion includes an inner surface forming an internal cavity, and a first port forming a first fluid passage to the housing cavity. The base portion includes a top end section and a bottom end section. The top end section has a protrusion, and the bottom end portion has a second port forming a second fluid passage to the housing cavity. The needleless connector further includes a valve having a wall with an inner surface forming a valve cavity. The valve is coupled with the housing such that the protrusion is positioned in the valve cavity, and a proximal end of the protrusion is spaced apart from a proximal end of the valve cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Todd ODA, Tomas FRAUSTO, Archana RAO, Ali SALEH, Siddarth K. SHEVGOOR, George MANSOUR
  • Patent number: 11779750
    Abstract: A needleless connector includes a housing having a central longitudinal axis, a body portion, and a base portion. The body portion includes an inner surface forming an internal cavity, and a first port forming a first fluid passage to the housing cavity. The base portion includes a top end section and a bottom end section. The top end section has a protrusion, and the bottom end portion has a second port forming a second fluid passage to the housing cavity. The needleless connector further includes a valve having a wall with an inner surface forming a valve cavity. The valve is coupled with the housing such that the protrusion is positioned in the valve cavity, and a proximal end of the protrusion is spaced apart from a proximal end of the valve cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Tomas Frausto, Archana Rao, Ali Saleh, Siddarth K. Shevgoor, George Mansour
  • Patent number: 11779521
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes controllable fluid pathways. One or more rotary piston pump/valves may be used to move fluid and/or gasses through the various fluid pathways of the cartridge. For example, the cartridge may include a dedicated rotary piston pump/valve for each process that moves fluid and/or gas through the cartridge. When turning, the rotary piston pump/valve acts as a pump to move the fluid or gas, and when the rotary piston pump/valve stops turning, it effectively acts as a shutoff valve, preventing any fluid flow. Magnetic couplers for the cartridge may be provided on a pump head of the compounder system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Dereck S. Ferdaws, Tomas Frausto
  • Publication number: 20230277418
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes fluid pathways controllable by valves of the cartridge. A pump component within the cartridge is actuable to move fluid through the controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge includes a needleless fluid port and a needleless vent port for fluid coupling to a vial via a vial puck. The vial puck includes corresponding needleless fluid and vent ports and a cannula. The cannula is extendible, by insertion of a protrusion on the cartridge into a shaft of the vial puck, into the vial to couple the vial to the needleless fluid and vent ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Todd ODA, Tomas FRAUSTO, Dereck S. FERDAWS
  • Publication number: 20230211071
    Abstract: Medical fluid extension set systems are disclosed that can include a tubing anchor coupled to tubing and a fluid coupling device, and can be anchored to a patient to resist unintended separation of the tubing anchor or a catheter coupled to the tubing, from a patient, and to permit separation or disconnection of a fluid pathway between the tubing and another device coupled to thereto upon exceeding a pulling force on the fluid coupling device, and where disconnection includes separation of first and second valve assemblies such that a fluid pathway of the first and second valve assemblies is obstructed upon disconnection of the fluid coupling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Jason Andrew Wine, Ryan Callahan, Jon K. Burkholz, Tomas Frausto, Siddarth Shevgoor
  • Publication number: 20230149628
    Abstract: A circular roller clamp assembly includes a semi-circular housing configured to receive a portion of an IV tube, a motor and a motor arm coupled to the motor. A roller is coupled to the roller arm, the roller movably received by a guide groove disposed in the semi-circular housing. A flow rate of fluid flowing through the IV tube is regulated based on roller impingement of the IV tube against a tube channel in the guide groove via circumferential movement of the roller along the guide groove. IV sets with circular roller clamp assemblies and methods of operating circular roller clamp assemblies are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Jason Andrew WINE, Tomas FRAUSTO
  • Patent number: 11648182
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes fluid pathways controllable by valves of the cartridge. A pump component within the cartridge is actuable to move fluid through the controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge includes a needleless fluid port and a needleless vent port for fluid coupling to a vial via a vial puck. The vial puck includes corresponding needleless fluid and vent ports and a cannula. The cannula is extendible, by insertion of a protrusion on the cartridge into a shaft of the vial puck, into the vial to couple the vial to the needleless fluid and vent ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Tomas Frausto, Dereck S. Ferdaws
  • Patent number: 11633330
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes fluid pathways controllable by valves of the cartridge. A pump component within the cartridge is actuable to move fluid through the controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge includes a backpack for management of tubing to couple the cartridge to a receiving container. A disposable waste container is contained by the cartridge and the backpack. A syringe holder is provided for use of a syringe as a receiving container to receive a compounded medication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Dereck S. Ferdaws, Tomas Frausto, Raymond Feith, Eugene Mason, Morgan Robinson
  • Publication number: 20230121893
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge may include a syringe pump for moving fluid and/or gas, and one or more syringe valves or rotary valves for controlling which of the controllable fluid pathways is open for flow of the fluid and/or gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Dereck S. Ferdaws, Tomas Frausto
  • Publication number: 20230080001
    Abstract: Drip chambers are described herein. A drip chamber comprises an inlet, an outlet, and a chamber body. The chamber body defines a chamber volume in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet. The chamber body is movable between a collapsed configuration having a first volume and an expanded configuration having a second volume. The second volume is larger than the first volume, and the chamber body is configured to be moved from the collapsed configuration to the expanded configuration to draw in a medical fluid from the inlet into the chamber volume to prime the drip chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Vincent Wang, Tomas Frausto, Todd Oda, Wantjinarjo Suwito, George Mansour
  • Publication number: 20230048849
    Abstract: Syringe assemblies are described herein. A syringe assembly includes an assembly housing, a first syringe, a second syringe, and a connecting gear. The first syringe is disposed within the assembly housing. Each plunger is movable within the respective syringe cavity and defines a respective chamber in the respective syringe cavity, wherein the respective chamber is in fluid communication with the respective syringe port, the respective plunger comprising a respective gear rack extending longitudinally along the respective plunger. The connecting gear is rotatably coupled to the assembly housing. The connecting gear is configured to be in meshed engagement with at least one of the first gear rack and the second gear rack of the syringes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Todd Oda, George Mansour, Eugene Mason, Tomas Frausto, Dylan Beyhl
  • Patent number: 11559468
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge may include a syringe pump for moving fluid and/or gas, and one or more syringe valves or rotary valves for controlling which of the controllable fluid pathways is open for flow of the fluid and/or gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Dereck S. Ferdaws, Tomas Frausto
  • Publication number: 20220387704
    Abstract: IV stand assemblies are provided that include a base, a stand, a platform and a motorized pole assembly having a housing, a pole and a drive. The drive moves the pole to extend and retract the pole relative to the housing. A weight measurement assembly measures weight of a fluid within a fluid container hanging from the IV stand assembly. IV stand assemblies with a pulley/belt assembly and methods of operating IV assemblies are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Tomas FRAUSTO, Jason Andrew Wine