Patents Issued in December 29, 2020
  • Patent number: 10874773
    Abstract: A novel two-step process for batch coating surgical needles with cross-linked silicone coatings is disclosed. The surgical needles are cured using a two-step process. The coatings on the needles are partially cured in the first step and mechanically separated. The coatings on the needles are then fully cured in the second step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.
    Inventor: Duan Li Ou
  • Patent number: 10874774
    Abstract: An active implantable medical device comprises an expandable stent, a flexible cover material positioned on at least an outer surface of the expandable stent, a nanoscale source of electrical energy embedded within the cover material, where the nanoscale source of electrical energy is mechanically activatable to produce the electrical energy, and antimicrobial particles distributed on or within a surface region of the cover material. The antimicrobial particles are electrically connected to the nanoscale source of electrical energy. When the active implantable medical device is placed in a body vessel and exposed to pressure changes and/or mechanical stresses, mechanical activation of the nanoscale source occurs, thereby enabling production of the electrical energy and powering of the antimicrobial particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Lauren Kucera, Ralf Spindler
  • Patent number: 10874775
    Abstract: Disclosed and claimed is any one of long-dwelling body lumen apparatus, such as a catheter or stent (c/s), said c/s comprising: at least one lumen fittingly disposed within a tubular member; a scaffold circumferentially disposed around at least one of an outer surface of at least the tubular member; said scaffold radially extending for at least a portion of the length of the at least tubular member. Furthermore, the scaffold comprised of any one of a pattern of interlocking struts with individual well-like reservoirs disposed; each reservoir having a depth sufficient enough to house at least a first agent of any one of a chemical moiety, each of the reservoirs capped to form an enclosure; and wherein a delayed degradation of said cap results in a sudden release of the housed at least first agent. Any number of agents, reservoirs, and cap configurations may be possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen Kuperberg, Yitzhak Rosen
  • Patent number: 10874776
    Abstract: Various exemplary methods, systems, and devices for joint to pump elevation level user interfaces, autocalibration for joint elevation, and joint pressure estimation are provided. In general, an arthroscopic pump can be configured to estimate fluid pressure at a surgical site, e.g., at a joint, to provide an accurate indication of fluid pressure to users. In an exemplary embodiment, the fluid pressure estimation is based on a fluid pressure measurement at the pump that is adjusted at the pump, e.g., by a processor at the pump that executes instructions stored in a memory at the pump, using one or more control algorithms that adjust for one or more factors, such as pressure loss in tubing and sheath through which fluid flows between the pump and the surgical site and elevation difference between the pump and the surgical site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL
    Inventors: Oliver Dumas, Eduard Grinberg, Andre Francisco Guilherme, Michael Confoey, Jacob A. Marks
  • Patent number: 10874777
    Abstract: A tissue separating device (100) is provided. The tissue separating device (100) includes a canister device (20) including a canister body (21) defining a volume. A tissue retrieval port (36) can be arranged on the canister device (20) and is capable of being arranged in fluid communication with a harvesting device (300) for directing a fatty liposuction aspirate into the volume of the canister device (20). An adjustable height filtration mesh assembly (50) can be arranged within the canister body (21) and can include a filtering mesh (62). A tissue harvesting port (24) can be arranged in the sidewall of the canister body (21) and can be capable of being arranged in communication with a collection device (400) to allow the tissue harvesting port (24) to atraumatically receive a filtered pure fat collected on the filtering mesh (62).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Mark Louis Venturi
  • Patent number: 10874778
    Abstract: A process for the sequential processing of opaque and transparent biological fluids such as whole blood, apheresis blood, bone marrow blood, umbilical cord blood, buffy coat or cultured cells by processing steps in a hollow cylindrical centrifugal processing chamber (300) which is part of a disposable set. At least three different procedures selected from washing, incubation, transduction, separation, density gradient separation, dilution and volume adjustment are each carried out once or repeated a number of times according to a given processing profile in the processing chamber. Each procedure involves an input into the processing chamber, an operation in the processing chamber and an output from the processing chamber by displacement of a piston (310). The at least three different procedures are sequentially chained one after the other to constitute an overall sequential operation in the processing chamber and its disposable set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: BioSafe S.A.
    Inventors: Julien Camisani, Oliver Link
  • Patent number: 10874779
    Abstract: There is described an artificial heart comprising a pump, the pump comprising a housing (10) defining a substantially spherical cavity and comprising four vascular connectors (15in, 15out, 15?in, 15?out), namely two inlet connectors (15in, 15?in) and two outlet connectors (15out, 15?out) to connect the pump to the pulmonary and systemic circulation. A rotatable disc (11) is mounted within the housing (10) and secured to rotate about a fixed axis (12). Two oscillating palettes (16a, 16b) are mounted to rotate about a mobile axis (17) movable within a plane perpendicular to the fixed axis (12), wherein said palettes (16a, 16b) are connected together and are arranged on both sides of the rotatable disc (11), in a diametrically opposed fashion, to create two pumping units comprising each two variable sized chambers (20a, 20b, 20c, 20d) in fluid communication with one corresponding inlet and outlet connector respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (C.H.U.V.)
    Inventors: Tozzi Piergiorgio, Jonathan Emery, Audrey Maertens, Francois Avellan, Vincent Berruex
  • Patent number: 10874780
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, an implantable blood pump includes a housing defining a flow path, a rotor positioned within the flow path, and a motor including a stator, positioned outside of said housing, the stator including a length of silver wire, wherein the silver wire is not positioned within a hermetically sealed compartment once the blood pump is ready for implantation into a patient in need thereof. The present invention may also include a method of implanting the implantable blood pump including the step of implanting the blood pump within the patient and within or adjacent to the vasculature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: HeartWare, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. Larose
  • Patent number: 10874781
    Abstract: The invention resides in the field of introducing fluid pumps into a lumen and relates to a system for introducing a pump into a lumen which comprises a first sheath and a pump to be introduced into the first sheath, or a system which has a pump with a distal pump unit and a shaft catheter which emerges proximally to the pump unit. According to the invention one or two sheaths are used, the distal pump unit being pulled firstly into the distal end of one sheath, in order to avoid damage to a shaft catheter. Subsequently, the sheath receiving the pump unit is transferred into a further sheath or a receiving lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventor: Thomas Toellner
  • Patent number: 10874782
    Abstract: A rotary machine is provided which may include a rotor and a stator within a housing. The stator may be for generating a rotating magnetic field for applying a torque to the rotor. A commutator circuit may provide a plurality of phase voltages to the stator, and a controller may adjust the plurality of phase voltages provided by the commutator circuit to modify an attractive force of the stator on the rotor to move the rotor in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventors: Shunzhou Yu, Alexander Medvedev, Ren You
  • Patent number: 10874783
    Abstract: The catheter device comprises a drive shaft connected to a motor, and a rotor mounted on the drive shaft at the distal end section. The rotor has a frame structure which is formed by a screw-like boundary frame and rotor struts extending radially inwards from the boundary frame. The rotor struts are fastened to the drive shaft by their ends opposite the boundary frame. Between the boundary frame and the drive shaft extends an elastic covering. The frame structure is made of an elastic material such that, after forced compression, the rotor unfolds automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: AIS GMBH AACHEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
    Inventors: Joachim-Georg Pfeffer, Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Rolf W. Günther
  • Patent number: 10874784
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling pressure of a medical gas during treatment of a patient includes is a balloon (1) that through a catheter (2) is introducable into an arterial system of the patient, and a damping bag (20), of greater volume than that of the balloon (1), adapted to be loaded with medical gas at a compliance pressure (Pc) and placed in direct fluid communication with the balloon (1). The damping bag (20) is kept in direct fluid communication with the balloon (1) for the entire duration of the treatment of the patient. The apparatus further includes fine adjusting means (30) for acting on the damping container in such a way that the compliance pressure (Pc) is maintained between the systolic pressure and the diastolic pressure of the patient when the balloon is introduced into the arterial system of the patient and during the treatment of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Sebastiano Zannoli
  • Patent number: 10874785
    Abstract: A component concentration sensing system includes a first component concentration sensor, a collector and a second component concentration sensor. The first component concentration sensor is provided to a channel through which flows a liquid whose component concentration is to be sensed, and is configured to irradiate the liquid with light and sense the component concentration in the liquid from a degree of light absorption. The collector is arranged to collect the liquid flowing through the channel. The second component concentration sensor is configured to irradiate the liquid collected in the collector with light and sense the component concentration in the liquid from the degree of light absorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TORAY ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsukasa Niwa
  • Patent number: 10874786
    Abstract: A dialysis device implantable in a patient for dialysis includes a filtration unit. The filtration unit includes at least one dialysis chamber for containing and/or circulating dialysate; and at least one blood chamber for containing and/or circulating blood of the patient, disposed on at least one dialysis chamber and being in communication with the at least one dialysis chamber. Each of the at least one dialysis chamber and the at least one blood chamber comprise at least one inlet for circulating fluid into and/or out of the at least one dialysis chamber and the at least one blood chamber. The at least one dialysis chamber and the at least one blood chamber are configured such that the blood in the at least one blood chamber and the dialysate in the at least one dialysis chamber operably interact with each other for dialysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: NEPHRODITE LLC
    Inventors: Hiep Nguyen, Nikhil Shah, Julie Wilderman
  • Patent number: 10874787
    Abstract: The invention relates to a degassing vessel and related systems and methods that can remove certain gases such as carbon dioxide from a dialysis system with minimal foaming inside the degassing vessel. The invention further relates to mechanical systems and methods for degassing a dialysate or any fluid used for, during or resulting from dialysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas E. Meyer, Samuel J. Schmidt, William P. Hajko, Carl Wilbert Gomes, II
  • Patent number: 10874788
    Abstract: The invention relates to an infusate caddy for carrying, organizing, and operating infusate containers containing solutes for preparing dialysate and related fluids for use in dialysis. The infusate containers can be seated in the infusate caddy, and the infusate containers removed from the infusate caddy for restocking, cleaning, or resupply, as needed. The infusate caddy can be positioned or seated in a receiving compartment of a dialysis machine, and can also be removed, as needed, from the dialysis machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: David B. Lura, Christopher M. Hobot, Martin T. Gerber, Thomas E. Meyer
  • Patent number: 10874789
    Abstract: An assembly for adding a medication or like substance to a liquid solution in a flexible bag (10) is provided. The flexible bag (10) contains a liquid solution, such as dialysate. An adapter (14) extends from the flexible bag (10) and includes a skirt (20) having an array of resilient sections (22) for engaging and snapping onto a neck finish (106) of a separate vial (100) containing a medication or like substance. A locking device (16) is adapted to be secured about the skirt (20) in a locking position that prevents outward movement of the array of resilient sections (22) and thereby prevents disengagement of the vial (100) from the adapter (14). A method of transferring the liquid solution from the bag (10) to the vial (100), mixing the medication with the liquid solution, and returning the mixture to the bag (10) is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: DREXEL UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Cies, Arun Chopra, Moses Noh
  • Patent number: 10874790
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods for making intracycle adjustments to an osmotic agent concentration of peritoneal dialysate inside the peritoneal cavity of a patient. The systems and methods include osmotic agent sources, flow paths, and processors to adjust the osmotic agent concentration of dialysate in the peritoneal cavity of the patient. The method can include infusing peritoneal dialysate containing an osmotic agent into the peritoneal cavity of a patient; monitoring one or more patient parameters; and adjusting the osmotic agent concentration of the peritoneal dialysate in the peritoneal cavity of the patient by infusing a concentrated osmotic agent solution or by infusing sterile fluid into the peritoneal cavity of the patient using an on-line peritoneal dialysis machine. The system can include a peritoneal dialysis cycler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin T. Gerber, Christopher M. Hobot
  • Patent number: 10874791
    Abstract: A medical fluid bag rack for hanging bags containing medical fluid that includes at least one base section; at least two support arms which extend from the base section; and at least one bag rack arm. The at least one bag rack arm extends from the base section or from one of the support arms. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing the fluid bag rack and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Mager, Stefan Oesterreich, Udo Waeber
  • Patent number: 10874792
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for the aseptic delivery of a biologic medication in a wearable form factor. The apparatus and method allow for standard off-the-shelf drug cartridges to be utilized without compromising the sterility of the biologic. Further, by utilizing a two part assembly, manufacturing costs are minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: FLEXTRONICS AP, LLC
    Inventors: Connor Meehan, Lopa Patel
  • Patent number: 10874793
    Abstract: An infusion system for being operatively connected to a fluid delivery line and to an infusion container includes a pump, a plurality of different types of sensors connected to the pump or the fluid delivery line, at least one processor, and a memory. The plurality of different types of sensors are configured to indicate whether air is in the fluid delivery line. The memory includes programming code for execution by the at least one processor. The programming code is configured to, based on measurements taken by the plurality of different types of sensors, determine: whether there is air in the fluid delivery line; whether there is a partial occlusion or a total occlusion in the fluid delivery line; or a percentage of the air present in the fluid delivery line or the probability of the air being in the fluid delivery line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: ICU Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Meriyan Oruklu, Timothy L. Ruchti, Paul T. Kotnik, Anatoly S. Belkin, Brian G. Markey
  • Patent number: 10874794
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media are provided for transitioning a clinical care room from a first scene to a second scene in order to facilitate completion of a medication-administration process. The first scene in the clinical care room is presented where the clinical care room has one or more zones. The first scene is associated with a first group of setting for components within the one or more zones. An input indicating that the medication-administration process has been initiated is received. Incident to receiving the input, the second scene is provided. The second scene is associated with a second group of settings for the components. The second group of settings is optimized to facilitate completion medication-administration process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Stephanie Palmer Bechtel, Mark Nolte
  • Patent number: 10874795
    Abstract: An infusion safety device comprises a tag reader which is adapted to read a medication tag provided at an infusion medication reservoir, in particular during the whole infusion and a processing unit which is connected with said tag reader and is provided to be connected with an infusion pump in which an infusion protocol is stored and is adapted to recognize a change of the medication reservoir, to read out the infusion protocol from the infusion pump, to cause said tag reader to carry out a reading operation at the latest in case it recognizes a change of the medication reservoir and to give an alarm in case there is no match between the medication read by said tag reader and the medication required by the infusion protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Micrel Medical Devices S.A.
    Inventor: Achilleas Tsoukalis
  • Patent number: 10874796
    Abstract: A device for locating and operating a medical device having different operational modes is provided. The device comprises a first database, wherein from a plurality of different operational modes for the medical device and from a plurality of different geographical positions of use for operation of the medical device, a predetermined operational mode is assigned to a geographical position of use. A positioning means is adapted to be provided at the medical device and to determine the geographical position of the medical device, and a control means is connected to the positioning means and the database and is adapted to determine, by mapping the determined geographical position of the medical device with the geographical positions of use stored in the first database, the predetermined operational mode which is assigned to the geographical position where the medical device is located, and to set the medical device to said predetermined operational mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Micrel Medical Devices, S.A.
    Inventor: Achilleas Tsoukalis
  • Patent number: 10874797
    Abstract: A drug administration controller has a sensor that generates a sensor signal to a physiological measurement device, which measures a physiological parameter in response. A control output responsive to the physiological parameter or a metric derived from the physiological parameter causes a drug administration device to affect a treatment of a person, such as by initiating, pausing, halting or adjusting a dosage of drugs administered to the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventor: Massi Joe E. Kiani
  • Patent number: 10874798
    Abstract: Described herein is the use of CSF, more particularly external CSF or CSF-like compositions for the treatment and prevention of different diseases. More particularly, the application provides for the administration of CSF to the intrathecal space or the cerebral ventricles of a patient to increase intracranial pressure and/or CSF flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: P&X Medical NV
    Inventor: Peter Wostyn
  • Patent number: 10874799
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medicament delivery device comprising: a housing configured to receive a cartridge containing a medicament; an injection needle having a proximal end and a distal end; an injection needle holder to which the injection needle is fixed, the injection needle holder being moveable relative to the housing between a rest position and a use position; and an injection needle cap detachably connected to the injection needle holder and enclosing the proximal end of the injection needle. The medicament delivery device is configured such that pushing the injection needle cap towards the cartridge causes the injection needle holder to move from the rest position in which the distal end of the injection needle is spaced from the cartridge towards the use position in which the distal end of the injection needle can engage the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventor: Michael Helmer
  • Patent number: 10874800
    Abstract: A medicament injection device is provided. The device includes a main body configured to receive a medicament cartridge sealed with a penetrable holder. The device can further include a needle holder holding a needle, a needle sleeve arranged to be axially movable with respect to the main body, and a retainer coupled to the needle holder and to the needle sleeve. The retainer can be axially movable with respect to the main body along the main axis of the device. Upon displacement of the needle sleeve and the retainer by a predefined distance towards a proximal end of the main body, the needle holder and the needle can be displaced axially towards the proximal end of the main body and decouple from the retainer. The needle sleeve can be configured to disengage from the needle holder upon displacement of the needle sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Schader, Michael Helmer, Sebastian Braun, Michael Varga
  • Patent number: 10874801
    Abstract: A system comprising a drug delivery device and a cartridge provided with a bung and and a method of identifying the cartridge The present invention relates to a bung (20), to a drug containing cartridge (10) and to a drug delivery device, wherein the bung (20) comprises a coding feature (28) for carrying information regarding at least one of the cartridge (10) and the content of the cartridge (10). Furthermore, it relates to a method for identifying a cartridge (10) containing a medicinal product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Pommereau, Anke Liewald, Michael Jugl, Axel Teucher
  • Patent number: 10874802
    Abstract: A data collection device comprises: a first portion having one or more features configured for attaching of the first portion to a dosage knob of an injection device; a second portion rotatably coupled with the first portion, wherein at least part of the second portion is movable axially relative to the first portion; a sensor arrangement configured to detect rotation of the first portion relative to the second portion; and a processor arrangement configured to, based on said detected movement, determine a medicament amount expelled by the injection device, wherein the coupling arrangement is configured to provide a non-permanent coupling between the first portion and the dosage knob of the injection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deustschland GMBH
    Inventors: Maurice Toporek, Matthias Felber, Christoph Matthias Gugl, Marcus-Meinolf Dittrich, Christian Nessel, Stephan Riedel, Armin Koller, Alexander Heinrich, Florian Eberli, Philipp Muller, Sven Zwicker
  • Patent number: 10874803
    Abstract: Drive systems for a drug delivery device are provided. The drive systems can be positioned within a container that stores a liquid drug to be delivered to a user. The drive systems can be coupled to a plunger positioned within the container. The drive systems can be incrementally advanced to drive the plunger further into the container, thereby expelling a portion of the stored liquid drug from the container for delivery to the user. The container can be any type of container including a pre-filled, standardized drug cartridge. The drive systems and container can be components of a wearable drug delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: INSULET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven Cardinali, David Nazzaro, Daniel Allis, Maureen McCaffrey
  • Patent number: 10874804
    Abstract: A medicament delivery device includes a housing having proximal and distal ends; a delivery member connected to the housing; a medicament container operably arranged within the housing; a drive mechanism configured to act on the medicament container for priming and for expelling a dose of medicament; and an activator mechanism configured to interact with the drive mechanism, such that a first interaction between the activator mechanism and the drive mechanism causes the container to move toward the delivery member, in which the container is primed, and such that a subsequent interaction between the activator mechanism and the drive mechanism causes a dose of medicament to be expelled through the delivery member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AG
    Inventors: Lucio Giambattista, Antonio Bendek, Mattias Daniel, Sebastian Karlsson
  • Patent number: 10874805
    Abstract: An apparatus having an outer wall that encompasses an interior chamber that holds a predetermined volume of fluid and gas where the gas rises to one end of the interior chamber and the fluid flows to the other end of the interior chamber. The apparatus also has an inlet port that allows for fluid to ingress into the interior chamber and an outlet port that allows for fluid to egress out of the interior chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: AILNH, LLC
    Inventors: Norton Herrick, David Saloff, Richard Green
  • Patent number: 10874806
    Abstract: An apparatus having an outer wall that encompasses an interior chamber that holds a predetermined volume of fluid and gas where the gas rises to one end of the interior chamber and the fluid flows to the other end of the interior chamber. The apparatus also has an inlet port that allows for fluid to ingress into the interior chamber and an outlet port that allows for fluid to egress out of the interior chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: AILNH, LLC
    Inventors: Norton Herrick, David Saloff, Richard Green
  • Patent number: 10874807
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention disclose a combined ultrasonic atomizer, an atomization method thereof and electronic cigarette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: China Tobacco Hunan Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianfu Liu, Kejun Zhong, Xiaoyi Guo, Wei Huang, Yuangang Dai, Xinqiang Yin, Jianhua Yi, Hong Yu, Lizhou Shen
  • Patent number: 10874808
    Abstract: An over-pressure control device prevents over-pressure conditions during the delivery of pressure treatment therapy to a patient with a respiratory treatment apparatus. The device may prevent delivered pressure from exceeding a first maximum pressure threshold. The device may also prevent the delivered pressure from exceeding a second maximum pressure threshold when the delivered pressure exceeds another pressure threshold for a period of time. In some embodiments, the second maximum pressure threshold may be lower than the first maximum pressure threshold. In an example embodiment, a set of comparators are configured to compare pressure with a maximum pressure threshold and to control a reduction in the pressure if the pressure exceeds the maximum pressure threshold. The set may also be configured to compare the pressure with a pressure threshold and to control reduction in the maximum pressure threshold if the pressure exceeds the pressure threshold for a period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Kingsley Blunsden, Ronald James Huby, Graham Stephen Cutcliffe, Jack Wei Cheng, Zhuo Ran Tang
  • Patent number: 10874809
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for delivering respiratory treatment to a patient. For example, a treatment system may include a mechanism for delivering a positive pressure breath to a patient, and one or more limb flow control assemblies which modulate gas flow to and from the patient. Exemplary treatment techniques are embodied in anesthesia machines, mechanical ventilators, and manual ventilators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: James Homuth, Greg Voss, Anja Metzger, Keith Lurie
  • Patent number: 10874810
    Abstract: A blower includes a housing including a proximal opening and a distal opening that are co-axially aligned, a stator component) provided to the housing, an impeller positioned between the proximal opening of the housing and the stator component, and a motor adapted to drive the impeller. The impeller includes a plurality of impeller blades. The stator component includes a plurality of air directing grooves along its exterior surface. The leading edge of the air directing grooves extend tangentially outwards from the outer tips of the impeller blades and are configured to collect the air exiting the impeller blades and direct it from a generally tangential direction to a generally radial direction by dividing the air from the impeller and directing the air along a curved path towards the distal opening so that airflow becomes substantially laminar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: ResMed Motor Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Tsun-Fai Fu, Dion Charles Chewe Martin, Philippe Auguste Chalvignac, Quangang Yang, David Creusot
  • Patent number: 10874811
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system that automatically detects patient-ventilator asynchrony and trends in patient-ventilator asynchrony. The present disclosure describes a framework that uses pressure, flow, and volume waveforms to detect patient-ventilator asynchrony and the presence of secretions in the ventilator circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Autonomous Healthcare, Inc.
    Inventors: Behnood Gholami, Timothy S. Phan
  • Patent number: 10874812
    Abstract: An add-on device and method for an Endo-Tracheal Tube (ETT), the add-on device including a lengthy body having a major arc-shaped cross section sized and shaped to tightly fit over an ETT, at least one longitudinal cavity passing along the lengthy body, including a distal suction cavity ending with a suction inlet at a distal end of the lengthy body; and a distal suction outlet channel extending from a proximal end of the lengthy body, the channel is a continuous extension of the distal suction cavity and configured to provide suction to the distal suction cavity. The add-on device senses moisture at a distal end of the add-on device, and in case of detection of excessive wetness, provides suction to the distal end of the device through a cavity passing along the device, the suction is provided via a suction outlet channel extending from a proximal end of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: ART Healthcare Ltd.
    Inventors: Liron Elia, Gavriel J. Iddan
  • Patent number: 10874813
    Abstract: A respiratory mask arrangement that can be used in the framework of CPAP therapy for treating sleep-related disturbances, for example. The respiratory mask arrangement may include a sealing lip device to be placed on a facial surface of a mask user, a covering device which defines a mask interior in cooperation with the sealing lip device, and a respiratory gas conduit unit for delivering respiratory gas to the mask interior that is defined by the covering device and is connected to the nostril and/or oral opening of the mask user. At least some sections of the covering device may be embodied as an air-permeable structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: RESMED PTY LTD
    Inventors: Stefan Rolf Madaus, Caspar Graff Stauffenberg, Harald Wolfgang Vögele
  • Patent number: 10874814
    Abstract: A headgear system and/or an interface assembly incorporating a headgear system that, in some configurations, is configured to transform from elasticated or “stretchy” behavior to “inelastic” behavior at least in response to normal or expected forces encountered during the intended therapy. In some configurations, upon fitment to the head of a user, the system automatically adjusts toward or to an appropriate size. A headgear portion or assembly for use in combination with a breathing apparatus in some configurations is at least substantially inelastic and is three dimensional in shape. The headgear portion or assembly can comprise a plastic core and a textile casing. The headgear, or part thereof, may also have integrally moulded labels, connectors, adjustment mechanisms and/or grips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Brett John Huddart, Jeroen Hammer, Matthew Robert Geoff Slight, Vitaly Kapelevich, David Monroy Felix, Callum Ross Gordon, Bruce Michael Walls, Melissa Catherine Bornholdt, Matthew Roger Stephenson, Paul Mathew Freestone, Ryan Anthony Graham, Mark Arvind McLaren
  • Patent number: 10874815
    Abstract: A retention assembly is for a patient interface device. The patient interface device includes a cushion member structured to engage a face of a patient. The retention assembly includes: a retention member structured to be coupled to the cushion member; a headgear member; a first interconnect member removably coupled to the retention member; and a second interconnect member removably coupled to the headgear member. The second interconnect member is removably coupled to the first interconnect member in order to couple the headgear member to the retention member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Richard Thomas Haibach, Stephen George Hlopick, Robert Edward O'Grady
  • Patent number: 10874816
    Abstract: A collapsible joint for use with a nebulizer includes a housing connected to the source of carrier gas flow, an extensible and flexible airway and an extension connected to a patient applicator. A swivel joint for use with a nebulizer includes a swivel housing, a rotating airway pivoted in the swivel housing about a first axis of rotation; and an airway base coupling coupled to the swivel housing rotatable with respect to the swivel housing about a second axis of rotation. The first and second axes of rotation are mutually orthogonal at least in part to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Steve Islava
  • Patent number: 10874817
    Abstract: A pressure swing adsorption (PSA) system and methods for controlling each PSA cycle performed by the PSA system to produce oxygen enriched gas during productive portions of a user breathing cycle, and to cease production of oxygen enriched gas during non-productive portions of the user breathing cycle, is provided. The PSA system synchronizes PSA cycle phases including adsorption and desorption phases with a user's individual inhalation and exhalation phases, on a breath by breath basis, such that each PSA cycle can be dynamically varied from a succeeding PSA cycle, in real time in response to variations in the user's breathing cycle. An oxygen delivery device including a breathing cycle sensor provides breathing cycle inputs to a controller for use with at least one algorithm to detect breathing flow phases during each user breath, and to synchronize each PSA cycle to the user's breathing flow phases, on a breath-by-breath basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Aires Medical LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas L. Oddo, Peter D. Fitchen, Eugene H. Breniman
  • Patent number: 10874818
    Abstract: An aerosol delivery system, which includes an aerosol delivery unit, the aerosol delivery unit including: a cartridge receiver, which is configured to receive a cartridge assembly; and an inductor configured to receive the cartridge assembly and heat a liquid formulation within a capillary tube to produce an aerosol by induction heating. The cartridge assembly including an active part of the cartridge assembly including a capillary tube; a susceptor, the susceptor configured to partially surround the capillary tube; and a pair of displaceable covers, which surround at least the capillary tube and the susceptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Hassenpflug, Larry Keith Hooks, Jr., James A. Prescott, Ludwin Mora, Michael Scott Ulrich, Jane O'Loughlin, Steve Wilder, William G. Atterbury, Thomas D. Haubert, Ryan Somogye, Michael Ko, Stephen C. Schmitt, Michael Lorenz, Lawrence A. Weinstein, James Leamon
  • Patent number: 10874819
    Abstract: A gas humidification system can have a conduit defining a gas passageway. A mass of a first absorbent material can be located in the conduit. A mass of a second absorbent material can cover at least a part of the surface of the conduit. An orifice can be located on the conduit to allow communication between the first and second absorbent materials. A heating element can be placed within, on, around, or near the first absorbent material. The heating element can heat up moisture in or on the first absorbent material such that the moisture is encouraged to join gases passing through the gas humidification system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon, Guohua Bao, Nordyn Alami
  • Patent number: 10874820
    Abstract: A positive airway pressure (PAP) device for supplying a flow of breathable gas to a patient includes a flow generator configured to pressurize a flow of breathable gas and a humidifier configured to receive and humidify the pressurized flow of breathable gas from the flow generator. The PAP device also includes a power source. The flow generator, humidifier and power source are positioned so that heat generated by at least one of the flow generator and the power source is conveyed to water in the humidifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: ResMed Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Dion Charles Chewe Martin, Barton John Kenyon, Alexander Virr, Dmitri Anatolievich Doudkine, Philip Rodney Kwok, Richard Charles Napper, John Michael Snow
  • Patent number: 10874821
    Abstract: A gases humidifier includes a gases inlet and an outlet, a removable humidification chamber cartridge with a heater source adapted to vaporize fluid, and a metering arrangement adapted to connect to and transfer fluid from a fluid supply to the humidification chamber. A gases humidifier includes a humidification chamber adapted to vaporize fluid and a metering arrangement adapted to transfer fluid from a fluid supply to the humidification chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: James Samuel Wong Doo, Andrew John Partington, Nordyn Alami
  • Patent number: 10874822
    Abstract: An aircraft seat assembly for supporting a seat occupant, and a method for fabricating an aircraft seat assembly for supporting a seat occupant are provided. In one non-limiting example, the aircraft seat assembly includes a seat cushion supported by the seat structure. A vibration producing apparatus configured to produce vibrations conducive for inducing drowsiness. The vibration producing apparatus is disposed adjacent to or within the seat structure for transferring the vibrations to the seat occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Knight