Patents Issued in December 17, 2019
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Patent number: 10507270Abstract: An apparatus is provided for use in combination with a surgical sponge assembly and a trocar including a cannula where the surgical sponge assembly includes a suction tube coupled to a sponge head. A body includes a proximal end, a distal end, and a first lumen and a second lumen that join one another to form a cavity. The first lumen and the second lumen are separated from one another by an interior wall that extends from the proximal end of the body to the cavity. The first lumen is sized and configured to allow an axial movement of the suction tube within the first lumen and the cavity is configured to store at least a portion of the sponge head. The apparatus is configured to allow the surgical sponge assembly to be moved from a retracted position to an extended position.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventors: Paul C. Sabin, James F. Biggins, Matthew Hanczor, Andrew John Caunter
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Patent number: 10507271Abstract: The present invention provides an implantable cardiac compression device comprising: an inflatable cardiac compression jacket configured when inflated to directly compress a heart and assist in displacing blood therefrom, a channel that connects the inflatable cardiac compression jacket and an expandable fluid reservoir configured to contain a fluid when displaced compresses the inflatable cardiac compression jacket, and a fluid driver operably connected to the inflatable cardiac compression jacket and to the expandable fluid reservoir, wherein the fluid driver is configured to inflate the cardiac compression jacket and to deflate the expandable fluid reservoir during systole of the heart; said driver is further configured to deflate the cardiac compression jacket and to inflate the expandable fluid reservoir during diastole of the heart.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: CorInnova Incorporated, The Texas A&M University SystemInventors: John C. Criscione, Boris Leschinsky
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Patent number: 10507272Abstract: There is disclosed apparatus and methods for providing a reserve power source for a ventricular assist device. In an embodiment, the apparatus includes a primary power source for powering the device, and a controller housing having a reserve battery for powering the device when the primary power source provides inadequate power, and the controller housing configured for use externally of the patient with a percutaneous cable to the device. In another embodiment, a method includes powering the device with a primary power source, monitoring power provided to the device, powering the device when the power is monitored as inadequate to the device with a reserve power source disposed within a controller housing, the device disposed subcutaneously within a patient, the controller housing disposed externally of the patient, and the device and the controller housing connected by a percutaneous cable. Other embodiments are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: WorldHeart, Inc.Inventors: Jim Lee, James Malmstrom, James Long
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Patent number: 10507273Abstract: A method of filling a container, preferably containing at least one concentrate, with the concentrate being formed such that it forms at least one liquid concentrate or a part of a liquid concentrate on its solution in or its mixing with a liquid, preferably water, the liquid concentrate or the part of the liquid concentrate being suitable for preparing at least one dialysis solution, includes filling the container via a balance chamber system of a dialyzer. The balance chamber system has chambers from which the liquid is conveyed into the container in the form of repeating cycles. The pressure of the liquid being conveyed is measured during a cycle of the filling phase of the container, and an alarm signal is emitted and/or the filling of the container is stopped if a measured maximum pressure in a cycle does not reach or does not exceed a limit value.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Peter Kloeffel, Olaf Nicholas
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Patent number: 10507274Abstract: An electrical heating device for medical equipment is provided. The electrical heating device includes a conducting body forming a channel therethrough for fluid travel, a base dielectric layer disposed on the conducting body, a heater surrounding the base dielectric layer and the conducting body, a top dielectric layer disposed on the heater, and a protection housing that is preformed and that defines a cavity to receive the top dielectric layer and the heater in the cavity. The base dielectric layer and the top dielectric layer jointly enclose the heater. At least one of the base dielectric layer and the top dielectric layer has a radial portion at a side of the heater such that the radial portion surrounds a portion of the base layer dielectric that is sandwiched between the heater and the conducting body and no portion of the heater is exposed from the base dielectric layer and the top dielectric layer. The protection housing defines side pieces that are in direct contact with the conducting body.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Watlow Electric Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Martin Wallinger, Gernot Antosch, Reiner Lehnert, Wolfgang Pöschl, Gerhard Schefbänke
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Patent number: 10507275Abstract: A tube set for a blood handling apparatus, in particular an extracorporeal blood handling apparatus with an extracorporeal blood circuit or an apparatus for peritoneal dialysis, and a blood handling apparatus that has such a tube set are described. The tube set includes a device for collecting particles provided in a tube line portion of the tube set downstream of the tube portion placed in the occluding hose pump. The device for collecting particles prevents retention of solid substances that are possibly contained in the dialysis fluid, substituate or peritoneal solution. The tube set also has a device for limiting the pressure in the tube line portion between the occluding hose pump and the device for collecting particles. The device for limiting the positive pressure prevents an excessive positive pressure from building up in the tube line when fluid flow through the device for collecting particles is reduced or interrupted.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2010Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbHInventors: Michael Herrenbauer, Robert Pohlmeier, Andreas Laubrock, Angelika Bachmann
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Patent number: 10507276Abstract: A medical fluid delivery cassette configured for use with a medical fluid pumping system and related systems and methods. The medical fluid delivery cassette includes a base and a membrane that together define a fluid pump chamber. The medical fluid delivery cassette further includes a member configured to apply an outward force to an inner surface of the membrane.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Kulwinder S. Plahey, Lynn Jensen, Melvin D. Jensen, DeLoy Lindley, Joseph Michael Fallon
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Patent number: 10507277Abstract: A blood treatment cassette having a cassette body comprising a hard part and a film that at least partially covers the hard part. The hard part comprises a valve base that cooperates with a section of the film adjacent the valve base to form a valve that is configured to be moved from a first open position in which the valve base and the section of the film do not touch each other to a second position in which the valve base and the section of the film touch each other when a force is applied to the section of the film. The blood treatment cassette comprises a spacer supported by the hard part, and the spacer is configured to apply, in the first position of the valve, force to the section of the film.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbHInventor: Martin Lauer
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Patent number: 10507278Abstract: Fluidic devices, methods, and systems are disclosed. One system may comprises a sheath, a delivery module, and a removal module. The sheath includes a working lumen, a delivery lumen, and a removal lumen. The delivery module is configured to move a fluid from a fluid reservoir and into a body cavity through the delivery lumen. The removal module is configured to move the fluid and a particulate contained therein out of the body cavity through the removal lumen, through a filtration device that removes the particulate, and back into the fluid reservoir. One method comprises placing a distal end of sheath into a body cavity, energizing the working lumen to generate a particulate in the cavity, moving the fluid into the cavity to engage the particulate, and moving the fluid and the contaminant from the body cavity, through a filter for removing the contaminant, and back into the fluid source.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Wei Alfred Gao, Cheng Zhang, Yuan Chester Hong, Feng Kevin Xu
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Patent number: 10507279Abstract: A control system (23) is arranged to control the operation of an apparatus (200) for extracorporeal blood treatment. The apparatus (200) comprises an extracorporeal blood circuit (20) and a connection system (C) for connecting the blood circuit (20) to the vascular system of a patient. The blood circuit (20) comprises a blood processing device (6), and at least one pumping device (3). The control system is operable to switch between a pre-treatment mode and a blood treatment mode. The blood treatment mode involves operating the blood circuit (20) to pump blood from the vascular system via the connection system (C) through the blood processing device (6) and back to the vascular system via the connection system (C). The control system (23) is operable to obtain measurement data from at least one energy transfer sensor (40) arranged to sense a transfer of energy between the patient and the connection system (C) or between the patient and the blood circuit (20).Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Gambro Lundia ABInventors: Bo Olde, Kristian Solem, Thomas Hertz, Jan Sternby, Anders Wieslander
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Patent number: 10507280Abstract: A medical instrument housing container includes a container body including a substantially rectangular base, a peripheral wall having a lower end that is contiguous to a perimeter of the base and that extends upward, and a peripheral edge member that comprises a plurality of peripheral edges, that is contiguous to an upper end of the peripheral wall, and that extends outwardly, wherein the substantially rectangular base, the peripheral wall, and the peripheral edge member are molded from resin, and the container body has an opening surrounded by the peripheral edge member; a plurality of medical instruments held in the container body; and a protection film that is adhered or heat-sealed to the peripheral edge member for covering and sealing the opening. At least a portion of the peripheral edge member is curved inwardly. The protection film covers the opening in a flexed condition.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hitoshi Okihara
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Patent number: 10507281Abstract: A cannula capture mechanism is described herein. The capture mechanism may include an inner housing, outer housing, and a cannula. The outer housing may be configured to move between a compressed and a decompressed state. An outer surface of the inner housing may include one or more interlock components. When the cannula is exposed from a distal end of the inner housing, the one or more interlock components may interact with one or more interlock surfaces formed in another surface of the catheter device. When the cannula is retracted proximally within the inner housing, the inner housing may contract radially inward causing the one or more interlock components to be separated from the one or more interlock surfaces and the outer housing to move to the decompressed state and extend distally over a distal portion of the inner housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Siddarth K. Shevgoor
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Patent number: 10507282Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide multi-stage biodegradable drug delivery platforms and methods for the subcutaneous delivery of therapeutic agents (TA). Embodiments of the platform may be configured to subcutaneously deliver a first dose of a first TA which is absorbed into the body and/or blood stream (BBS) to produce a first therapeutic effect for a first selectable time period (STP), and subsequently after a second STP, deliver a second dose of a second TA which is absorbed into the BBS to produce a second therapeutic effect for a third STP. An embodiment of the platform may comprise a body having a tissue-penetrating end, a primary cavity having a first TA dose and a shell having a secondary cavity having a second TA dose. The first TA dose is released after the first STP and the second TA dose is released after the second STP by biodegradation of the shell.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: InCube Labs, LLCInventor: Mir Imran
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Patent number: 10507283Abstract: A pump system for pain management may receive input related to a patient's real-time pain to provide automatic adjustments of pain medication bolus delivery based on deduced patient pain. The pump may also collect pain management information during the delivery of pain medication to provide data for improved pain management protocols.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Zyno Medical, LLCInventors: Chaoyoung Lee, Mei Zhang
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Patent number: 10507284Abstract: A controller for an artificial pancreas for automated insulin delivery to patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) that enforces safe insulin delivery throughout both day and night, wherein the controller employs zone model predictive control, whereby real-time optimization, based on a model of a human's insulin response, is utilized to regulate blood glucose levels to a safe zone, and time-dependent zones that smoothly modulate the controller correction based on the time of day, wherein the controller strategically strives to maintain an 80-140 mg/dL glucose zone during the day, a 110-220 mg/dL zone at night, and a smooth transition of 2 hour duration in between.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Francis J. Doyle, III, Eyal Dassau, Ravi L. Gondhalekar
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Patent number: 10507285Abstract: Apparatus and method are described employing pressurized gas to transfer, mix and/or reconstitute medicament contained in a vial and flowing it into an injection device. Pressurized gas may be provided by prefilled cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Enable Injections, Inc.Inventors: Adam Dunki-Jacobs, Michael D. Hooven, Matthew J. Huddleston, Richard P. Nuchols, Joetta Renee Palmer, David Stefanchik
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Patent number: 10507286Abstract: A container and methods for storing and mixing a two-component composition is provided. The container includes a body, a first plug and a second plug. The body has a first end, a second end, and a bypass with a length L disposed between the first and second ends. The first and second plugs are slidably disposed in the body and define a first compartment. A second compartment is disposed in the body between the second plug and the second end. The second plug has a first edge, a second edge, and a plurality of spaced-apart primary conduits extending through the second plug. Each primary conduit has a separate first opening. A distance D extends longitudinally from the first edge to the second edge and a distance E extends longitudinally from the first edge to the first opening that is nearest the first edge. D?L and E<L.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Marc A. Egeland, Chin-Yee Ng, Jo A. Etter, Ravi Kolakaluri
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Patent number: 10507287Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a needleless drug delivery system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a needleless drug delivery system, in which durability of a membrane that partitions a space to fill a drug is enhanced by reinforcing a weak portion of the membrane or by forming a double membrane.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventor: Jin Woo Jeon
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Patent number: 10507288Abstract: A reduced profile syringe assembly is provided that includes an overall profile that is substantially similar to a profile of a syringe barrel. The syringe assembly includes a plunger rod that is significantly disposed within the syringe barrel when filled for use, with the plunger rod adapted to be retracted from the syringe barrel during dispensing of contents of the syringe barrel.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Becton Dickinson FranceInventors: Flora Felsovalyi, Eric Schiller, Michael Quinn
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Patent number: 10507289Abstract: A medicament delivery device is presented having a housing, a medicament container holder, arranged movable in relation to the housing and capable of accommodating a medicament container. An activator is arranged in the housing and capable of, upon activation, acting on a medicament container for expelling a dose of medicament, where the activator has a plunger rod, a manually operable dose setting nut rotatably connected to the housing and arranged with first threads. Second threads are arranged on the medicament container holder being arranged to cooperate with said dose setting nut, wherein operation of the dose setting nut will cause the medicament container holder with the medicament container to move towards the plunger rod for setting a dose of medicament to be delivered.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AGInventors: Kasper Enge, Gunnar Elmén, Anders Holmqvist
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Patent number: 10507291Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for automatic injection of a product into an injection site, the device comprising: a container having a displaceable piston; a tubular housing having at least a flexible part which, in a rest state, defines a first opening; a piston rod; and, an intermediate part fixed to the piston rod which defines a diameter larger than the first opening. With sufficient distal displacement of the piston rod, the intermediate part causes the at least a flexible part to deflect outwardly with further distal displacement of the piston rod causing the intermediate part to wholly pass through the first opening with the at least a flexible part returning towards the at rest state, engagement of the at least a flexible part with a surrounding element under force of movement towards the at rest state generating a sound.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Becton Dickinson FranceInventor: Lionel Maritan
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Patent number: 10507292Abstract: Presented herein is an infusate heating system with a vacuum release valve that obviates a system halt failure due to inaccurate detection of fluid level in an infusate reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Belmont Instrument, LLCInventors: John J. Landy, III, George G. Brusard, Tristan Dion
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Patent number: 10507293Abstract: The present invention is directed to a device for the expression of a hemostatic powder having an elongated reservoir with a manual air pump, such as a bellows, at a proximal end and an expression port at a distal end. A porous filter is slidably disposed within the reservoir between the bellows and plunger and the expression port, and a spring is disposed within the reservoir between the air pump and the plunger. The powder is disposed within the reservoir between the porous filter and the expression port, and the pump is in a fluid communication with the expression port through the porous filter and through the powder.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: John Goodman, Alex W. Kiturkes, Jared Schneider
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Patent number: 10507294Abstract: A portable handheld pressure support system configured to provide rapid recovery from dyspnea of a subject is provided. The pressure support system is configured to be small and lightweight so that the subject carries the system and use the system as needed without requiring a device to be worn on the face. The system includes one or more of a pressure generator, a subject interface, a medicament inlet port, one or more sensors, one or more valves, one or more processors, a user interface, electronic storage, a portable power source, a housing, a handle, and/or other components.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2013Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Anandi Mahadevan, Elias George Diacopoulso
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Patent number: 10507295Abstract: A compound delivery device for delivering a plume derived from a propellant and a drug formulation. The drug formulation is in an intranasal dosage form in the form of powder, suspension, dispersion or liquid. The propelled intranasal dosage form is deposited within the olfactory region of the nasal cavity. The drug deposited within the olfactory region is delivered to the brain avoiding the blood-brain-barrier. Hydrofluoroalkane propellant from a pressurized canister is channeled to a diffuser and drug-containing chamber where the intra-nasal dosage form is aerosolized. The aerosolized intra-nasal dosage form passes through a nozzle thus delivering a plume to the olfactory region of a user's nasal cavity.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Impel Neuropharma, Inc.Inventors: John D. Hoekman, Michael Hite, Alan Brunelle, Joel Relethford, Rodney J. Y. Ho
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Patent number: 10507296Abstract: A system includes: a first sensor configured to measure one of a ventilatory volume, a concentration of gas, a respiratory rate and a respiratory pressure; a second sensor configured to measure a pressure associated with a mask adapted to be attached to a human patient or a mannequin; a processor configured to analyze a measurement value of the first sensor and a measurement value of the second sensor; and an output unit connected to the processor, and configured to output, based on a result of the analysis of the processor, at least one of: a condition of the mask adapted to be attached to the human patient or the mannequin; and a condition of the human patient or the mannequin.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Nihon Kohden CorporationInventors: Vinay Nadkarni, Akira Nishisaki, Elizabeth Foglia, Dana Niles, Fumihiko Takatori
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Patent number: 10507297Abstract: An air delivery system for providing a supply of air from a source of air at positive pressure to an interfacing structure located at the entrance to the airways of a patient includes a manifold adapted to connect with the supply of positive air pressure and at least one tube connected to the manifold and adapted to deliver the supply of air to the interfacing structure. Each tube is structured to allow movement between an open phase in which the tube allows the passage of air and a collapsed phase in which the tube is collapsed. Each tube is structured such that weight of a typical patient's head against bedding apparel is sufficient to collapse the tube from the open phase to the collapsed phase.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Robert Edward Henry, Gregory Robert Peake
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Patent number: 10507298Abstract: A respiration mask includes an upper portion connectible to a source of gas, a lower portion connected to the upper portion, facilitating a seal between the upper portion and a person's face, and a deformation element incorporated into the lower portion to establish a plurality of sealing barriers between the lower portion and the person's face. The upper portion is made from a first material with a modulus of elasticity between 150 ksi and 200,000 ksi. The deformation element is made from a second material exhibiting a hardness below one of 40 Shore A or 80 Shore OO and tear a resistance greater than 5 lbf/in.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventors: Orel Yehuda Swenson, Brian Patrick Anderson
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Patent number: 10507299Abstract: An elbow connector (10,20) for use with a patient interface device (2) includes a coupling portion (11,21) structured to be inserted into an opening in the patient interface device to couple the elbow connector with the patient interface device. The coupling portion includes an upper coupling portion (11a) and a lower coupling portion (11b). The elbow connector also includes a rear surface (13). Applying pressure to the rear surface causes the upper coupling portion to move towards the lower coupling portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventor: Matthew Answine
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Patent number: 10507300Abstract: Lightweight, portable oxygen concentrators that operate using an ultra rapid, sub one second, adsorption cycle based on advanced molecular sieve materials are disclosed. The amount of sieve material utilized is a fraction of that used in conventional portable devices. This dramatically reduces the volume, weight, and cost of the device. Innovations in valve configuration, moisture control, case and battery design, and replaceable sieve module are described. Patients with breathing disorders and others requiring medical oxygen are provided with a long lasting, low cost alternative to existing portable oxygen supply devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: SEPARATION DESIGN GROUP IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Stephen Douglas Galbraith, Robert B. Lacount
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Patent number: 10507301Abstract: Devices, systems and methods using two, three or more pigtails for precisely imaging an aortic valve complex with minimal contrast and/or for advancing an instrument, such as a wire, or device, such as a transcatheter valve, across an aortic valve. These devices, systems and methods may be used to diagnose and/or treat patients with aortic stenosis, other valvular heart disease or other cardiovascular or non cardiovascular disease, facilitating precise contrast or drug or device delivery, precise pressure measurement and/or precise drainage or sampling.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterInventor: Hasanian Al-Jilaihawi
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Patent number: 10507302Abstract: An apparatus includes a first catheter defining a first longitudinal axis and a first lumen. A first actuator can be coupled to the first catheter and configured to rotate about the first longitudinal axis to deflect a distal end of the first catheter relative to the first longitudinal axis. A second catheter can define a second longitudinal axis and a second lumen. At least a portion of the second catheter can be configured to slide within the first lumen. A magnetic member can be coupled to a distal end of the second catheter. The magnetic member can define a third lumen. The third lumen can be in fluid communication with the second lumen. A second actuator can be coupled to the second catheter and configured to move linearly along the second longitudinal axis so as to vary a spacing between the magnetic member and the first catheter.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Farapulse, Inc.Inventors: Stephen A. Leeflang, Christian S. Eversull
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Patent number: 10507303Abstract: The present disclosure provides a medical device comprising a deflecting assembly configured to assist in deflecting a distal portion of a catheter shaft. The deflecting assembly may include a first rotatable member having a first diameter and a first pull wire coupled thereto and a second rotatable member having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter and a second pull wire coupled thereto, wherein the second rotatable member is coupled to the first rotatable member such that a center point of the second rotatable member is offset from a center point of the first rotatable member. The first and second rotatable members are configured such that rotation of the first rotatable member via the first pull wire causes rotation of the second rotatable member and second pull wire, thus resulting in deflection of a distal portion of the medical device.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.Inventor: Russell David Terwey
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Patent number: 10507304Abstract: A catheter device configured to provide access to a hollow organ is provided. It includes a body extending longitudinally from a proximal end to a distal end and a flexible insertion tube extending longitudinally from a proximal end to a distal end, wherein the body includes an elongated channel along the longitudinal length of the body extending from the proximal end of the body to the distal end of the body, wherein the channel is configured to receive an elongate needle. The body further comprises one or more cutting edges extending rearwardly from a distal end of the body. Furthermore, the flexible insertion tube of the catheter device is coupled to the distal end of the body and comprises a tubular elongated passage aligned with the tubular elongated channel of the body forming a lumen. Kits including such catheter devices and methods for accessing a hollow organ are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: VASCULAR BARCELONA DEVICES, S.L.Inventor: Enrique Roche Rebollo
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Patent number: 10507305Abstract: The present application includes a sheath that is suitable for use in a variety of medical procedures. In one or more implementations, the sheath includes a shunt member, and a curvable portion. The curvable portion may be configured in various orientations to facilitate an intervention, such as a hemodialysis intervention, or the like, by an operator. The curvable portion may be configured to bend between a substantially straight configuration and a curved configuration. In implementations, the sheath may be configured to have detachable and/or interchangeable components (e.g., shunt member, curvable portion, etc.).Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of NebraskaInventor: Gregory Gordon
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Patent number: 10507306Abstract: An optical guidewire system employs an optical guidewire (10), an optical guidewire controller (12), a guide interface (13) and an optical connector (15). The optical guidewire (10) is for advancing a catheter (20) to a target region relative to a distal end of the optical guidewire (10), wherein the optical guidewire (10) includes one or more guidewire fiber cores (11) for generating an encoded optical signal (16) indicative of a shape of the optical guidewire (10). The optical guidewire controller (12) is responsive to the encoded optical signal (16) for reconstructing the shape of the optical guidewire (10). The guidewire interface (13) includes one or more interface fiber core(s) (14) optically coupled to the optical guidewire controller (12). The optical connector (15) facilitates a connection, disconnection and reconnection of the optical guidewire (10) to the guidewire interface (13) that enables a backloading the catheter (20) on the optical guidewire (10).Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Luis Felipe Gutierrez, Robert Manzke, Raymond Chan
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Patent number: 10507307Abstract: The present invention is directed to a guidewire configured to reduce the incidence of medical accidents when using guidewires including, but not limited to, the incidence of guidewires accidentally being pushed completely into a patient through a needle in the patient, guidewires accidently being left inside patients after the placement of central venous (and other) catheters, and guidewires accidently being left inside patients after removal of the catheter (at the end of an operation of other medical procedure). In particular, an intermediary portion (either in the form of a new shape (referred to herein as “an obstruction portion”) or an alternate (e.g., more flexible) material) of the guidewire inhibits further advancement into the needle with pushing motion. (The intermediary portion can be implemented as an additional portion connected between the patient-side portion and the doctor-side portion of the guidewire as well.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Horizon Patents, LLCInventors: Mark M. Gottlieb, James B. Solomon
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Patent number: 10507308Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a carrying support that grasps work tubes different in length and type such that the lower ends are at the same height, is easy for the worker to carry by hand and realize automatic carrying, and is further capable of fixing the tube end portions to be processed in many cases at a constant height, thereby to assure the degree of freedom of designing manufacturing devices when the carrying support is also used as a jig for the devices. The carrying support is provided with a first grasping part (11) and a second grasping part (12) that grasp both end sides of work tubes (W) bent in middle parts at an upper position and extending downward.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuyuki Tsuneoka, Masayasu Shimaru
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Patent number: 10507309Abstract: Embodiments herein include apparatus and methods for coating medical devices. In an embodiment, a coating apparatus is included having a coating application unit including a movement restriction structure, a fluid applicator having a lengthwise major axis, a fluid distribution bar having a body angled with respect to the major lengthwise axis of the fluid applicator between 0 and 20 degrees, a rotation mechanism and an axial motion mechanism. The axial motion mechanism configured to cause movement of at least one of the coating application unit and the rotation mechanism with respect to one another. Other embodiments are also included herein.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Surmodics, Inc.Inventors: Ralph A. Chappa, Andrew G. Bach, Mark MacGregor
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Patent number: 10507310Abstract: An apparatus includes a guide member configured with stress limiting features which function to prevent the stress from bending the guide member causing ovalization of the guide member. An apparatus for bending a guide member includes a ram die and a pressure die which are configured to fully encircle the portion of the guide member during the bending operation. A fixture for supporting a guide member during bending is configured to fully encircle sections of the guide member during bending.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Acclarent, Inc.Inventors: George L. Matlock, Jason R. Phillips
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Patent number: 10507311Abstract: A system for treatment of a wound area of a patient including a first treatment pad comprising a plurality of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) for cleaning and exposing a wound area to ultraviolet light, a second treatment pad comprising removal ports for exposing the wound area to a negative pressure, and a control unit interoperably connected to the first and second treatment pads for providing a negative pressure and the ultraviolet light to the wound area.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ThermoTek, Inc.Inventor: Tony Quisenberry
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Patent number: 10507312Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a microneedle enabling product quality and efficiency in production to be improved by reducing the time needed for spotting a viscous material. The method for manufacturing a microneedle, according to the present disclosure, comprises the steps of spotting a viscous material on a plurality of spots on a film by supplying the viscous material to the upper surface of the film by means of a plurality of through-holes provided on an injection plate, elongating the viscous material spotted on the film; and coagulating the elongated viscous material.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Raphas Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jung Dong Kim, Do Hyeon Jeong, Beom Joon Kim, Hong Kee Kim
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Patent number: 10507313Abstract: Various embodiments provide an apparatus, system method for treating neurological conditions by delivering solid form medication to the ventricles or other areas of the brain. Particular embodiments provide an apparatus and method for treating epilepsy and other neurological conditions by delivering solid form medication to ventricles in the brain wherein the medication is contained in a diffusion chamber so as to allow the medication to dissolve in the cerebrospinal fluid of the brain and then diffuse out of the diffusion chamber to be delivered to the ventricles and brain tissue. In one or more embodiments, portions of apparatus have sufficient flexibility to conform to the shape of the ventricles of the brain when advanced into them and/or to not cause deformation of the ventricle sufficient to cause a significant physiologic effect.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: InCube Labs, LLCInventors: Mir Imran, Phillip Morgan, Ben Tranchina, Paul Spehr, Kyle Horlen
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Patent number: 10507314Abstract: The present invention provides a controlling apparatus for a skin resurfacing device performing a surgical procedure on a human skin with a surgical needle, including: a controller 20; a voltage regulator 50 configured to regulate a voltage supplied to the skin resurfacing device from a power supply 10 according to a control of the controller; and a starting switch 80 configured to turn on/off a supply of power between the voltage regulator and the skin resurfacing device, in which the controller controls the voltage regulator so as to output a preset jump start voltage to the skin resurfacing device every time the starting switch is turned on, if a jump start function that is a function of starting the skin resurfacing device is set by a starting voltage when an operating voltage of the skin resurfacing device is lower than the starting voltage of the skin resurfacing device at the time of the surgical procedure.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventor: Seung-Ho Lee
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Patent number: 10507315Abstract: A catheter system including an elongate tubular member having a proximal end portion, a distal end portion and a lumen extending through at least a portion of a length of the elongate tubular member. The distal end portion of the elongate member is dimensioned and adapted to advance to or in proximity to a treatment site of a subject. A microbubble device is in fluid communication with the lumen. The microbubble device includes at least one input port for receiving a flow of material into the device and an output port configured to output microbubbles from the microbubble device. A second tubular member is in fluid communication with one of the at least one input ports. A pressure fitting arrangement is adapted to maintain a seal between the second tubular member and the input port.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: University of Virginia Patent FoundationInventors: John A. Hossack, Brian R. Wamhoff, Alexander L. Klibanov, Johnny Chen, Brent A. French
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Patent number: 10507316Abstract: An implantable fluid router is described that includes one or more inlets, one or more outlets and at least one gas vent for removing gas from liquid routed from the one or more inlets to the one or more outlets, The implantable router may be used with implantable drug delivery apparatus. A catheter device including such a fluid router is also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: RENISHAW (IRELAND) LIMITEDInventors: Paul D. Fielder, David E. Johnson, Maxwell R. Woolley
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Patent number: 10507317Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include a medical device assembly. The medical device assembly can comprise an elongate hollow cylindrical body that extends along a longitudinal axis. A distal cap portion can extend along the longitudinal axis. A proximal end of the distal cap portion can be connected to a distal end of the elongate hollow cylindrical body. A wire management port can be defined in the distal cap portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ST JUDE MEDICAL INTERNATIONAL HOLDING S.À R.L.Inventors: Andrew Oliverius, James Marrs, Varun Bansal, Timothy S. Marass
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Patent number: 10507318Abstract: A bag connector system includes a first coupling element, with a self-closing seal and a housing having a fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port, and a second coupling element, with a housing having a fluid inlet end and a fluid outlet end. The fluid inlet end is configured to displace the self-closing seal when inserted into the fluid outlet port of the first coupling element. A bag connector system optionally includes a locking mechanism to maintain the first coupling element and second coupling element in a coupled state. Uncoupling of the first and second coupling elements results in minimal fluid contamination on the outer surfaces of the coupling elements. The bag connector systems provided herein are included in medical appliances for waste management.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ConvaTec Technologies Inc.Inventors: Yun Jin, Bret Alexander Weig, John Cline, Mingliang Lawrence Tsai
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Patent number: 10507319Abstract: A multi-use disposable set (MUDS) has at least one syringe having a proximal end and a distal end spaced apart from the proximal end along a longitudinal axis. The MUDS further has a plunger reciprocally movable within a syringe interior between the proximal end and the distal end. A manifold is in fluid communication with the distal end of the at least one syringe. At least one valve is in fluid communication with the syringe interior. The at least one valve is operable between a filling position for filling the syringe interior with fluid and a delivery position for delivering the fluid from the syringe interior. At least one connection port is in fluid communication with the manifold and the syringe interior when the at least one valve is in the delivery position. A multi-fluid delivery system having the medical convector and MUDS is also provided. Various features of the MUDS system are also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: John A. Haury, Michael Swantner, Richard Sokolov, Benjamin James Cullen, Alison Ruth Norcott, Ernesto Hueso Monis, Kamman Law, Mark Silvio Profaca, Patrick Spence, Michael A. Spohn, Justin Angert
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Patent number: 10507320Abstract: A catheter control system the system can include a control unit having a first connection port. The control unit can have a first visual indicator associated with the first connection port. The system can also include a first catheter interface connector connected to the first connection port of the control unit. The first catheter interface connector can have a first visual indicator corresponding to the first visual indicator on the control unit. The first visual indicator on the first catheter interface connector can be to be active to indicate that the first catheter interface connector is connected to the first connection port on the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: EKOS CORPORATIONInventors: Curtis Genstler, Douglas R. Hansmann