Patents by Inventor Wayne A. Provost

Wayne A. Provost 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: 20250345511
    Abstract: An IV-line identification system to enable ready identification of an IV line and its associated fluid source and output from other IV lines with their fluid sources and outputs. The IV-line identification system includes multiple light sources configured for selective attachment to an infusion line. Each light source is actuatable to generate a light signal upon actuation such that when any one of the light sources is actuated, the actuated light source generates a light signal, automatically establishes a wireless connection with each of the other light sources, and automatically activates each of the other light sources so that each light source generates a light signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2025
    Publication date: November 13, 2025
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey D. Stewart
  • Patent number: 12397103
    Abstract: An IV-line identification system to enable ready identification of an IV line and its associated fluid source and output from other IV lines with their fluid sources and outputs. The IV-line identification system includes an optical member affixed along a longitudinal length of an elongated member that transmits light when a light source provides a light to the optical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignee: ORION INNOVATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey D. Stewart
  • Publication number: 20240350721
    Abstract: An IV-line identification system to enable ready identification of an IV line and its associated fluid source and output from other IV lines with their fluid sources and outputs. The IV-line identification system includes an optical member affixed along a longitudinal length of an elongated member that transmits light when a light source provides a light to the optical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey D Stewart
  • Publication number: 20240295109
    Abstract: A system and method for utilizing gray water to flush a toilet includes a potable water source, a gray water tank, a first conduit coupled between the gray water tank and the toilet, and a pump configured to transfer gray water from the gray water tank to the toilet tank via the first conduit. The gray water tank may be configured to receive water from a sink of a bathroom, kitchen, or other room of a house, building, RV, etc. By utilizing gray water to flush a toilet, potable water may be conserved. In some examples, the system and method for utilizing gray water to flush a toilet also includes one or more sensors, one or more valves, one or more controllers, wireless transceivers, and one or more filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: MJ Stewart Investments, LLC
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey D. Stewart, Berkley Wyatt Anderson, Bracken Bischoff Thiriot, Ivan Nickolas Picinic
  • Patent number: 11992648
    Abstract: An IV-line identification system to enable ready identification of an IV line and its associated fluid source and output from other IV lines with their fluid sources and outputs. The IV-line identification system includes an optical member affixed along a longitudinal length of an elongated member that transmits light when a light source provides a light to the optical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Orion Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey D. Stewart
  • Publication number: 20240123136
    Abstract: Disclosed is an infusion line indication system that includes one or more indicator devices configured for attachment to a medical line such as an infusion line, and a dongle that is connectable to a line control unit such as an infusion line pump. The one or more indicator devices are configured to provide an indicator signal such as a light signal. The dongle and the one or more indicator devices are capable of being wirelessly connected. The dongle is configured to transmit an indicator instruction to the one or more indicator devices in response to one or more line parameters sensed by sensors of the indicator devices or by the line control unit to thereby cause the indicator signal to change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventor: Wayne A. PROVOST
  • Publication number: 20240123209
    Abstract: Disclosed are adaptor devices configured for attaching an indicator, such as a light source, to an infusion line to aid a user in identifying the infusion line, matching different sections of an infusion line as belonging to the same infusion line, distinguishing the infusion line from other infusion lines, and/or sensing of various parameters of the medical line. The adaptor device includes a receiving surface and one or more sets of laterally opposing grip elements projecting from the receiving surface. The grip elements are configured to accommodate medical lines of variable size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Rodney W. Schutt, Taylor Charles Hill, Jonathan Neil Hart
  • Publication number: 20230293807
    Abstract: An IV-line identification system to enable ready identification of an IV line and its associated fluid source and output from other IV lines with their fluid sources and outputs. The IV-line identification system includes an optical member affixed along a longitudinal length of an elongated member that transmits light when a light source provides a light to the optical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Wayne A. PROVOST, Jeffrey D. STEWART
  • Patent number: 11623035
    Abstract: An IV-line identification system to enable ready identification of an IV line and its associated fluid source and output from other IV lines with their fluid sources and outputs. The IV-line identification system includes an optical member affixed along a longitudinal length of an elongated member that transmits light when a light source provides a light to the optical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: MEDLITE ID INC.
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey D. Stewart
  • Publication number: 20230050736
    Abstract: A light rail transit system has a railcar having a roller coaster wheel assembly, solar panels, a battery bank, an inverter, a solar charge controller, and a power rail contactor. The light rail system further has a rail system having a first riding rail and a second riding rail for receiving the roller coaster wheel assembly, and a power rail for providing backup power to the railcar via the power contactor, the power rail extending less than the length of the first riding rail and second riding rail and only supplying current when the power rail contactor of the railcar is in contact therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: MJ Stewart Investments, LLC
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey Stewart, Berkley Wyatt Anderson
  • Patent number: 11415099
    Abstract: A funnel wind turbine has a horizontal funnel, rotor blades in the narrower end of the funnel, the rotor blades coupled to a rotor, a shaft coupling the rotor to a generator, and a support tower. The funnel wind turbine may have bearings or a yaw system to allow rotation of the horizontal funnel on the support tower. The funnel wind turbine may have wind direction and speed sensors, an electronic control unit, and a communication device (e.g., cellular antennas, radio transmitters/receivers, etc.) for transmitting information such as wind speed and direction, power generation, and efficiency to a distant receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MJ Stewart Investments, LLC
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey Stewart
  • Patent number: 11413364
    Abstract: A top load device for disinfecting a container, such as a security bin for use in an airport, the device configured to store a stack of contaminated containers, wherein the device separates and releases a single container into an interior of a housing for disinfection. The housing comprises a conveyor that moves the container through the interior of the housing from an initial location to an exit of the housing, wherein the container is disinfected or sanitized with electromagnetic wavelength as it moves through the interior of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Steribin, LLC
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jonathan M. Cole, Jeffrey Stewart
  • Publication number: 20220186166
    Abstract: A segmented culture dish and imprinting system allows duplicate plates to be produced rapidly and without culture-to-culture overlap. The segmented culture dish and imprinting system includes a dish stamp, a first culture dish, and a second culture dish. The dish stamp may be placed on the first and/or the second culture dishes. The first and the second culture dishes have a key on an inside surface that ensures the orientation of cultures is always preserved, eliminating the need for markings on culture dishes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: Soft Cell Biological Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Prince, Wayne A. Provost
  • Publication number: 20220118174
    Abstract: An IV-line identification system to enable ready identification of an IV line and its associated fluid source and output from other IV lines with their fluid sources and outputs. The IV-line identification system includes an optical member affixed along a longitudinal length of an elongated member that transmits light when a light source provides a light to the optical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey D. Stewart
  • Patent number: 11241528
    Abstract: An IV-line identification system to enable ready identification of an IV line and its associated fluid source and output from other IV lines with their fluid sources and outputs. The IV-line identification system includes an optical member affixed along a longitudinal length of an elongated member that transmits light when a light source provides a light to the optical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: MEDLITE ID INC.
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey D. Stewart
  • Patent number: 11193599
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a bi-valve for use with a flowmeter or other source of oxygen or other medical gas, that allows a medical practitioner to easily and quickly switch from delivering oxygen or other gas from the flowmeter or other gas source to a given mask or other device, to another mask or other device. This is accomplished far faster and easier than is done under current practice. Current practice results in the patient being off oxygen or other gas for a short, but very significant period of time, which poses a serious risk of desaturation in the patient. The bi-valve may include a casing, an inlet, and two outlets, with a knob for selecting which output the oxygen or other gas is to be delivered to. The device may be a very simple ball valve device, with the only moving parts being the knob and the ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: OXYSWITCH, LLC
    Inventors: Majere T. Wintch, Wayne A. Provost, Russell W. Jaramillo
  • Publication number: 20210187187
    Abstract: An IV-line identification system to enable ready identification of an IV line and its associated fluid source and output from other IV lines with their fluid sources and outputs. The IV-line identification system includes an optical member affixed along a longitudinal length of an elongated member that transmits light when a light source provides a light to the optical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey D. Stewart
  • Patent number: 10967116
    Abstract: An IV-line identification system to enable ready identification of an IV line and its associated fluid source and output from other IV lines with their fluid sources and outputs. The IV-line identification system includes an optical member affixed along a longitudinal length of an elongated member that transmits light when a light source provides a light to the optical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: MEDLITE ID INC.
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Jeffrey D. Stewart
  • Publication number: 20210077644
    Abstract: A disinfecting device for use in disinfecting a container, wherein the device includes a light source configured to emit an antimicrobial wavelength on one or more surfaces of the container as the container passes through the disinfecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, William J. Christensen
  • Patent number: D920487
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Inventors: Wayne A. Provost, Zack Manweiler