Treating Material Forced Into Or Out Of Body By Self-acting Fluid Pressure, Motor-driven, Or Mechanical Energy Storing Means (e.g., Pressure Infusion Or Aspiration, Etc.) Patents (Class 604/131)
  • Patent number: 11819668
    Abstract: An injector apparatus includes a housing (101, 102) for a cartridge or syringe, a plunger (40) for cooperating in use with the cartridge or syringe to express successive doses, a dose setting arrangement (16, 20) to select a dose volume, and a drive mechanism (22, 24) releasable to advance the plunger in respective predetermined increments of magnitude to express the successive doses. The drive mechanism includes a drive spring (22) for imparting movement directly or indirectly to the plunger (40), and the dose setting arrangement includes a dose setting element (16) moveable in a dose setting routine to define a magnitude of an increment of movement of the plunger for a given dose. The drive mechanism further includes a clutch arrangement (56) operable during the dose setting routine to inhibit forward movement of the plunger and/or to isolate the dose setting element from the force of the drive spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Owen Mumford Limited
    Inventor: Toby Cowe
  • Patent number: 11806507
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for administering an antibody treatment via an infusion device, e.g., a rapid infusion device, e.g., for the treatment of a disease or condition that requires one or more infusions of monoclonal and/or polyclonal antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventor: Regina E. Herzlinger
  • Patent number: 11806397
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for administering a monoclonal and/or polyclonal antibody treatment via a rapid infusion device, e.g., for the treatment of a disease, e.g., a disease caused by a pathogen, e.g., for the treatment of COVID-19, caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2, or for the treatment of other conditions/diseases, such as neurological diseases, organ and/or tissue transplants, or certain forms of cancer, that require infusions of monoclonal and/or polyclonal antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventor: Regina E. Herzlinger
  • Patent number: 11805819
    Abstract: A heating assembly for use with a vaporizer, the heating assembly includes a bucket having an interior area configured to receive a vaporizing oil, the bucket having one or more legs extending therefrom to engage with spring clips of an electrical connection, the bucket composed of silicon carbide, and the bucket configured to receive and heat the oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventor: Brent Spendlove
  • Patent number: 11793997
    Abstract: The application relates to a pump, in particular blood pump. The pump comprises a drive shaft (3) which runs in an axial direction, a delivery element (6) which is connected to the drive shaft (3) in a distal region of this, and a housing (5) which surrounds the delivery element (6). The delivery element (6) and the housing (5) are designed in a manner such that these automatically unfold after a forced compression. The housing (5) moreover comprises an inlet region (22) with at least one inlet opening (23), a fluid-tight region (20) which surrounds a region of the delivery element (6), and an outlet region (24) with at least one opening (23) for the exit of the pump medium. The delivery element (6) is arranged in a manner such that it projects into the outlet region (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Siess, Mario Scheckel, Jörg Schumacher
  • Patent number: 11786669
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a cartridge driving module comprises a motor and a shaft extending along a rotational axis of the motor, a power transmission screwed to the shaft and moving forward when the shaft rotates in a forward direction and moving back when the shaft rotates in a backward direction, a pusher connected to the power transmission and exerting a pressure to a medicine cartridge containing a medicine when the power transmission moves forward, and a position maintaining unit exerting an external force to the power transmission in a direction along which the power transmission moves forward, when the power transmission moves back up to a predetermined stop position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventors: Woo Hyek Choi, Jeong Sik Kim, Seung Won Lee, Young Min Park
  • Patent number: 11781101
    Abstract: A 3D-printed in vitro model biological microenvironment in examples discussed below may have one or more of the following features: (a) a gel matrix 3D-printed scaffold, wherein the gel matrix comprises a chemical composition configured to culture a first type of live cells, (b) a target chemical disposed at one or more locations within the gel matrix, the target chemical forming a chemical depot from which a chemical gradient is created within the gel matrix, (c) a conduit disposed within the gel matrix and defining a lumen comprising a second type of live cells, wherein the conduit is configured to enable at least some of the first type of live cells to migrate through the conduit and facilitate flow of at least: some of the live cells to an outlet of the conduit, or enable introduction of at least one of other cells, Achemical mediators, or drugs into the 3D-printed microenvironment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Michael C. McAlpine, Fanben Meng
  • Patent number: 11730887
    Abstract: An injection device is presented. The injection device comprises a housing configured to receive a syringe which has a barrel and a plunger received in the barrel. The injection device further comprises a vibration generator operable to vibrate at least one of the barrel and plunger when said syringe is received in the housing. Methods of dispensing medicament from an injection device are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventor: Catherine Ebner
  • Patent number: 11707572
    Abstract: A cartridge adapter includes: a cartridge holder having a space that can accommodate therein a drug cartridge, the drug cartridge including a cylinder having a tubular internal space extending in a longitudinal direction, a gasket supported in the internal space so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction, and a drug held in the internal space; a piston that moves the gasket in the longitudinal direction in the internal space of the cylinder; a piston guide that movably supports the piston and connected to the cartridge holder; and a piston driving mechanism that drives the piston in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Murakami, Mitsuteru Fujimoto, Seiji Kikuchi, Toru Aoki, Masakazu Mori, Ryosuke Tani, Shinichi Kojima, Yoshihiro Kataoka, Katsumi Nakanishi, Tsuguhiro Kondo, Takashi Morimoto, Akio Inoki
  • Patent number: 11701167
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to systems and methods for therapeutically modulating nerves in or associated with a nasal region of a patient for the treatment of a rhinosinusitis condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Neurent Medical Limited
    Inventors: David Townley, Brian Shields
  • Patent number: 11690954
    Abstract: An optical sensor for a delivery device having a piston that displaces a substance, such as a fluid, from a reservoir. The optical sensor has a light source and a detector array for imaging encoding features disposed along a plunger rod coupled to the piston. By virtue of the pattern of encoding features, an absolute position of the plunger rod relative to a fiducial position may be determined uniquely. Thus, the volume of fluid remaining in the reservoir, the rate of fluid delivery, and proper loading of the reservoir may be accurately ascertained. Additionally, the encoding may serve to uniquely identify a version of the reservoir which may be supplied in various versions corresponding, for example, to differing concentrations of a therapeutic agent to be dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: Marc A. Mandro, Larry B. Gray
  • Patent number: 11684721
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an apparatus (1) for measuring and recording the remaining quantity of medicament in a medicament dosing device (2). The apparatus (1) has a location where the medicament dosing device (2) can be inserted. Combined with that location the apparatus (1) has equipment for measuring and analysing. The apparatus is characterised in that this equipment for measuring and analysing comprises a contact image sensor (3) combined with that location for the medicament dosing device, and a software in connection with the contact image sensor. In addition the object of this invention is the corresponding method for measuring and recording the remaining quantity of medicament in a medicament dosing device (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SALECRON OY
    Inventors: Eero Salin, Kari Leinonen
  • Patent number: 11670414
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process for providing failure safety for a medical monitoring procedure (40) of patient data (41), wherein the medical monitoring procedure (40) is carried out by a standard computer (10), wherein the patient data (41) are sent, furthermore, to the standard computer (10) and are compared with threshold values there. The present invention further pertains to a control device (20), to a computer program product (30) as well as to a system (1) for providing failure safety for a medical monitoring procedure (40) of patient data (41), wherein the medical monitoring procedure (40) is carried out by a standard computer (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Maximilian Merkel, Tobias Klotz
  • Patent number: 11654232
    Abstract: An infusion pump assembly includes a locking tab and a pump barrel inside a pump barrel housing, where the pump barrel accommodates a reservoir assembly. The reservoir assembly includes a reservoir and a plunger rod. The infusion pump assembly also includes a locking disc at a terminus of the pump barrel. The locking disc includes a clearance hole for the plunger rod. The locking disc also includes at least one locking tab notch in close proximity with the locking tab. The locking tab is in moveable engagement with the locking tab notch, and the reservoir moves the locking tab from a locked position to an unlocked position when the plunger rod is inserted through clearance hole. The locking disc rotates upon torque being applied to the reservoir assembly, the locking disc rotating from a non-loaded position to a loaded position with respect to the plunger rod and a drive screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: Kevin L. Grant, Brian D. Tracey
  • Patent number: 11653860
    Abstract: Recommendations based on continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) are described. Given the number of people that wear CGM systems and because CGM systems produce measurements continuously, a platform that provides a CGM system may have an enormous amount of data. This amount of data is practically, if not actually, impossible for humans to process. In implementations, a CGM platform includes a data analytics platform that obtains glucose measurements provided by a CGM system and also obtains additional data associated with a user. The data analytics platform processes these measurements and the additional data to predict a health indicator by using models. This prediction serves as a basis for generating a recommendation, such as a message recommending the user take action or adopt a behavior to mitigate a predicted negative health condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Parker, Neha Vyas, Christopher Hannemann
  • Patent number: 11648348
    Abstract: A medicament delivery device includes a generally elongated tubular housing having opposite proximal and distal parts; a needle shield sleeve slidably and coaxially arranged inside the housing with a proximal part of the sleeve protruding a distance outside the proximal part of the housing; a syringe carrier mechanism having a syringe carrier slidably and coaxially arranged within the needle shield sleeve, a syringe having a stopper, a medicament, and a needle, the syringe being coaxially arranged within the syringe carrier; and a holding member connected to the syringe carrier; a first activator member an a second activator member; a drive mechanism adapted to accumulate a drive force for moving the syringe carrier mechanism in a first step and a second step. The second activator member is arranged within an information device for producing audible, visual, and/or tactile feedback to a user about a completed injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AG
    Inventor: Oscar Alexandersson
  • Patent number: 11617830
    Abstract: A medical pump includes a reader configured to read drug identification information, a storage unit that stores the drug identification information read by the reader, a notification unit, and a control unit, in which when the reader reads drug identification information anew while the drug identification information is stored in the storage unit, the control unit compares the drug identification information being stored in the storage unit with the drug identification information read anew by the reader, and when the drug identification information being stored in the storage unit does not match the drug identification information read anew by the reader, the control unit causes the notification unit to notify of non-matching between drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Katsunuma
  • Patent number: 11612691
    Abstract: According to the invention, an auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament (M) comprises of a substantially cylindrical housing arranged to contain a pre-filled syringe filled with the medicament (M), a needle shroud slibably arranged with respect to the housing and adapted to rest on the skin of a patient receiving an injection, a releasable drive means arranged within the housing that is capable of, upon release, translating the needle shroud in a proximal direction (P) towards a safe position (PS) and a rotating collar rotatably arranged within the housing. The needle shroud in the safe position (PS) surrounds the injection needle after the injection has been carried out. The rotating collar engages the needle shroud in a manner that forces the rotating collar to rotate within the housing when the needle shroud is translated in the proximal direction (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Yannick Hourmand, Timothy Donald Barrow-Williams, Matthew Ekman
  • Patent number: 11612689
    Abstract: An adapter for releasably attaching a syringe to an injector. The adapter comprises a mounting mechanism positioned at a rear end of the adapter to mount the adapter in a desired position relative to a front wall of the injector; and a syringe carrier section adapted to seat at least a portion of the syringe. The syringe carrier section defines a first opening on a top thereof to allow placement of the syringe therein from the top and a second opening in a rear section thereof to allow the drive member of the injector to communicate forward force to the plunger. A cover portion extends over a rearward end of the first opening and has a first end configured to abut the flange of the syringe when the syringe is positioned within the syringe carrier section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Molly Bingaman, Erin Novickoff, Patrick O'Rourke, Stephen Schulte
  • Patent number: 11590291
    Abstract: Apparatus is described for administering a substance to a subject. A vial contains the substance and a stopper is disposed within the vial and is slidably coupled to the vial. A first threaded element is (a) rotatable with respect to the vial and (b) substantially immobile proximally with respect to the vial during rotation of the first threaded element. A second threaded element is threadedly coupled to the first threaded element. At least a distal end of the second threaded element is substantially non-rotatable with respect to the vial, and the distal end of the second threaded element defines a coupling portion that couples the second threaded element to the stopper. The first threaded element, by rotating, linearly advances the stopper and at least the distal end of the second threaded element toward a distal end of the vial. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yossi Gross, Oz Cabiri
  • Patent number: 11583628
    Abstract: A medical fluid therapy system having a multi-state alarm feature is disclosed. An example medical fluid therapy system includes a pumping apparatus configured to pump a medical fluid from a fluid container. The example system also includes a processor configured to generate a first alarm signal associated with a first low level event of the medical fluid in the fluid container, generate a second alarm signal associated with a second low level event of the medical fluid in the fluid container, and receive an activation of a snooze element for deactivating the first alarm signal after the first low level event has occurred and enabling the second alarm signal to be activated upon occurrence of the second low level event. The system further includes a server configured to receive and route at least one of the first alarm signal or the second alarm signal for display at a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Baxter International Inc.
    Inventors: Janice Stewart, Randolph Meinzer, Debra K. Bello, Janet Mullan, Lai H. Wong, Brett Todd, Todd Kivlehan
  • Patent number: 11565054
    Abstract: Drug delivery systems and methods of use thereof for recording administration of a drug dose to a subject are provided. Aspects of the invention include a syringe stopper rod comprising a sensor component that is configured to detect a delivery signature, and to transmit a report comprising a drug dose completion signal to a data management component, e.g., a mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven N. Roe
  • Patent number: 11559627
    Abstract: The invention relates to an autoinjector 59 for administering a fluid medicament to a subject comprising: a housing 1 for receiving a cartridge holder; a driver assembly 8; the driver assembly on actuation may move the cartridge 3 forward in the cartridge holder 2; a needle cover 4 may be coupled to the housing wherein the needle cover 4 travels in a linear or translational movement; said needle cover 4 is adapted to protect a needle when the needle cover may be in first locking position 17 and second locking position 18; the linear or translational movement may be achieved by a cam profile 13 and a cam follower 14; the cam profile 13 may be provided on outside surface of housing and the cam follower 14 located between the needle cover 4 and the housing 1; a first biasing member 15; and a second biasing member 16 configured to bias the cartridge 3 and the needle cover 4 respectively; and a safety cap 11 to control the actuation of the autoinjector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: WOCKHARDT LIMITED
    Inventors: Loganathan Shanmugam, Jayant Shrikant Karajgi, Suresh Kumar Natarajan, Vasanthan Mani, Cyril Lourdnathan Joseph Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11547798
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for injecting a radioactive product to a patient, wherein the system includes: a first syringe containing the radioactive product, whose plunger cooperates with an injection mass, acting by gravity, associated with deactivatable holding element; a mobile stop arranged to constitute an end-of-travel stop for the retraction of the plunger, as a function of the volume of radioactive product to be injected to the patient; a second syringe containing a rinsing product, whose plunger cooperates with a rinsing mass, acting by gravity, associated with deactivatable holding element; a trigger control element for triggering the injection of the radioactive product to the patient; and a management element including a unit for displacing the mobile stop structure as a function of the prescribed activity to be injected to the patient, and a unit for controlling the deactivatable holding element of the masses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: LEMER PAX
    Inventors: Pierre-Marie Lemer, Xavier Setoain
  • Patent number: 11547801
    Abstract: An injection device includes a carrier, a needle, a driver coupled to the needle, the driver being slidable relative to the carrier between a retracted configuration and a deployed configuration, a shuttle configured to move the driver between the retracted configuration and the deployed configuration, and a stop configured to move from a first configuration to a second configuration, wherein the stop is configured to maintain the driver in the deployed configuration, and movement of the stop from the first configuration to the second configuration allows the shuttle to move the driver from the deployed configuration to the retracted configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Bryan C. Grygus, Alfred Marino, Rachel P. Arnott, Scott Barton, Bart E. Burgess, Richard Gildersleeve, Alexei Goraltchouk, Daniel Halbig, Christopher Kanel, Trevor Langley
  • Patent number: 11547875
    Abstract: A device which utilizes low intensity extracorporeal shock therapy for purposes of treating soft tissue damage, cellulite reduction, or erectile dysfunction, to permit a simple, inexpensive, robust, home use solution which permits self-applied treatment for various parts of the user's body with a form factor, display, information, guidance, tutorials and training, marketing communication and purchase opportunities, viewing angle, timers, annunciators, sound attenuation, and payment options which provide an untrained amateur user with all tools and guidance necessary to properly, effectively, safely and affordably self-administer treatments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: MOON POOL LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Hoffman
  • Patent number: 11541170
    Abstract: The present application provides a self-powered drug-delivery device. The device includes a chamber having a wall. The chamber contains a fluid and is in connection with an administration means. The device also includes a displacement-generating battery cell. The device further includes an electrically-controlled battery unit, which includes the displacement-generating battery cell coupled to the chamber by a coupling means. The displacement-generating battery cell includes an element that changes shape as a result of charge or discharge of the battery cell so as to cause a displacement within the battery unit. The arrangement of the battery unit, the coupling means, the wall, the chamber, and the administration means is such that the displacement derived from the battery unit is conveyed by the coupling means to cause displacement of the wall of the chamber such that the fluid is expelled from the chamber to force a drug towards the administration means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: United Therapeutics Corporation
    Inventors: Amir Genosar, Doron Aurbach, Elena Markevich, Grigory Salitra, Jonathan Goldstein, Mikhail Levi, Niles Fleischer, Yehuda Bachar, Yossi Aldar
  • Patent number: 11541168
    Abstract: A drug delivery device includes a housing, a reservoir, a cannula, one or more light sources, a label, and a controller. The reservoir is disposed within the housing. The cannula is connected to the reservoir for delivering a drug from the reservoir to the patient. The light sources are disposed adjacent the exterior surface of the housing, and each serves to indicate one of one or more operational conditions of the device. The label is fixed to the housing adjacent the light sources, and includes one or more informational messages. Each informational message is aligned with one of the light sources for conveniently conveying to a user an operational condition of the device as indicated by the corresponding light source. Finally, the controller is operably connected to the reservoir and the light sources. The controller is configured to actuate the reservoir to deliver the drug, and to selectively illuminate the one or more light sources based on the operational condition of the drug delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: AMGEN INC.
    Inventor: Brian Stonecipher
  • Patent number: 11523972
    Abstract: A filling aid device for filling a reservoir. The device includes a cover portion comprising a septum window; a slider beam comprising a septum cover; and a first filling aid tab attached to the slider beam, the first filling aid tab in slidable relation to the cover from a first position to a second position, wherein when the filling aid device is in an unlocked position, the septum cover is located below the septum window, wherein when the first filling aid tab is moved from the first position to the second position, the septum cover is moved from below the septum window, and the filling aid device is in the locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Kevin L. Grant, Richard J. Lanigan, Cory L. Adams
  • Patent number: 11517663
    Abstract: A drug delivery device includes a housing with at least one pressure communication channel or aperture, which distributes a negative fluid pressure across its base to draw tissue against the device. The device can also include a porous, adhesive layer over the channel(s) or aperture(s), for attaching to tissue. The device can also include a pressure sensor for determining whether there is proper attachment. Further, a bladder may be used instead of the adhesive layer for attaching the device. The bladder, in a partially inflated state, can apply constant pressure across a contact surface causing a flexible adhesive layer attached to the bladder to confirm and adhere to the tissue. Subsequent evacuation of the bladder causes it to deflate and collapse or retract, thereby causing the flexible adhesive layer to pull and stretch the tissue toward the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Adam B. McCullough, Lawrence S. Ring
  • Patent number: 11517664
    Abstract: An automatic injection device with flow regulation. The automatic injection device has an insertion needle configured to be inserted into a patient and a drug container which contains a pharmaceutical product and includes a plunger. The automatic injection device also has a fluid path which fluidly connects the drug container to the patient via an insertion needle, a potential energy source, and a regulator configured to restrict release of potential energy and restrict linear movement of the plunger and the pharmaceutical product into the fluid path at a proscribed pace. The regulator includes a clock escapement mechanism and a wire and pulley system including a wire coupled to at least one pulley. The potential energy source may be a spring that surrounds the drug container and may be directly coupled to the plunger and the wire such that movement of the spring and the wire is restricted over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FLEX LTD.
    Inventors: Eyal Barmaimon, Lior Shtram, Shai Finkman
  • Patent number: 11504249
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for near-simultaneous and integrated delivery of bone graft material during the placement of surgical cages or other medical implants in a patient's spine. The integrated fusion cage and graft delivery device according to various embodiments delivers and disperses biologic material through a fusion cage to a disc space and, without withdrawal from the surgical site, may selectively detach the fusion cage for deposit to the same disc space. The integrated fusion cage and graft delivery device is formed such that a hollow tube and plunger selectively and controllably place bone graft material and a fusion cage in or adjacent to the bone graft receiving area. In one embodiment, the integrated fusion cage is an expandable integrated fusion cage. In another embodiment, the bone graft material is loaded into a breech area in the hollow tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Spinal Surgical Strategies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Milella, Jr., Jeffrey Kleiner, Edward J. Grimberg, Jr., Gregory Causey, Alan Burkholder
  • Patent number: 11490831
    Abstract: Sensors are disclosed that detect whether a cannula is properly inserted to its full depth in a subject's skin. The sensors may be used with a blood glucose monitor, or with a continuous insulin infusion pump, infusion set, or other system involving intermittent or continuous testing and/or drug delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Amit Limaye, Keith Knapp, Elizabeth Nelson, Patrick Allen, Amanda Masotta
  • Patent number: 11478577
    Abstract: A fluid handling cassette, such as that useable with an automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) cycler device or other infusion apparatus, may include a generally planar body having at least one pump chamber formed as a depression in a first side of the body and a plurality of flowpaths for a fluid that includes a channel. A patient line port may be arranged for connection to a patient line and be in fluid communication with the at least one pump chamber via at least a first one of said flowpaths, and an optional membrane may be attached to the first side of the body over the at least one pump chamber. In one embodiment, the membrane may have a pump chamber portion with an unstressed shape that generally conforms to the depression of the at least one pump chamber in the body and is arranged to be movable for movement of the fluid in a useable space of the at least one pump chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: David W. McGill, James D. Dale, Simon C. Helmore, Richard J. Lanigan, Jason A. Demers, Dean Kamen
  • Patent number: 11478583
    Abstract: Drug delivery system, injection device, transfer apparatus, vial holder and method of administering and transferring are disclosed which provide for passive warming of chilled injectable transferred through the transfer apparatus and into the injection device. The injection device may include a skin-facing surface including a skin boundary displacement extension or structure around a needle injection site to create a high pressure zone in the tissue. Radio frequency tracking and monitoring features for tracking patient compliance also may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Enable Injections, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Hooven, Matthew J. Huddleston, Joetta Renee Palmer, David Stefanchik
  • Patent number: 11471622
    Abstract: An inhaler article includes a body extending along a longitudinal axis from a mouthpiece end to a distal end and a capsule cavity defined within the body. A mouthpiece air channel extends from the capsule cavity to the mouthpiece end. An end cap is disposed within the distal end and extends to the capsule cavity. The end cap extends from an end cap distal end to an end cap inner end. The end cap includes an air channel extending from the end cap distal end to the end cap inner end. The air channel is non-parallel with the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Christopher John Grant, Gerard Zuber, Daniele Sanna, Gianluca Sechi, Judith Waller, Niki Meloncelli
  • Patent number: 11471599
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a medicament delivery device comprising a housing (10), which housing is arranged to accommodate a medicament container (20); a power unit (88) comprising: a drive force element (98), an actuation unit (90, 102) operably connected to said drive force element (98); which actuation unit (90, 102) is movable, upon activation of said drive force element (98), for expelling a dose of medicament from said medicament container (20); a monitoring unit (130) provided with an electrical power source (140) for operating said monitoring unit (130). The invention is characterised in that the medicament delivery device further comprises an activation element (160) operably connected to said actuation unit (90, 102), to said monitoring unit (130) and to said electrical power source (140), wherein said activation element (160) is arranged to allow connection between said electrical power source (140) and said monitoring unit (130) when said actuation unit (98, 102) is moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AG
    Inventors: Daniel Säll, Rasmus Renstad, Nikolaj Hautaviita
  • Patent number: 11450411
    Abstract: A testing system and method for providing a testing system includes a user interface having a display for displaying information relating to measurements of health data and an input device for receiving information from a user relating to the health data. Provided in connection with the user interface is an autologging feature adapted to provide the user with user-selectable options on the display. Also provided is a statistical operation adapted to provide the user with enhanced information relating to the measurements of health data. Also provided is at least one indicator for indicating information relating to the number of health data readings that are within a target range, the number of health data readings that are above the target range and the number of health data readings that are below the target range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AG
    Inventors: Jacob Brauer, Darren Brown, Jun Chen, Richard Kates, Jennifer M. Levin, Harris Lieber, Amy Schwartz, Raymond Yao
  • Patent number: 11439748
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an infusion device comprising a housing; a compartment inside said housing for positioning a medicament container, an infusion needle arranged to said housing, being connectable to said medicament container for delivering a dose of medicament, a piston plunger arranged in said housing capable of acting on said medicament container for delivering a dose of medicament, mechanical drive means capable of acting on said piston plunger for delivering a dose of medicament. The invention is characterised in that said piston plunger comprises a number of distinct segments being inter-connectable to each other for forming an elongated piston plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AG
    Inventors: Lucio Giambattista, Antonio Bendek
  • Patent number: 11434458
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improved flow properties in fluidic and microfluidic systems are disclosed. The system includes a microfluidic device having a first microchannel, a fluid reservoir having a working fluid and a pressurized gas, a pump in communication with the fluid reservoir to maintain a desired pressure of the pressurized gas, and a fluid-resistance element located within a fluid path between the fluid reservoir and the first microchannel. The fluid-resistance element includes a first fluidic resistance that is substantially larger than a second fluidic resistance associated with the first microchannel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Christopher David Hinojosa, Josiah Sliz, Daniel Levner, Guy Thompson, Hubert Geisler, Jose Fernandez-Alcon, Donald E. Ingber
  • Patent number: 11430201
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus acquires a plurality of captured images of characters captured in time series, each of the characters including a plurality of segments, recognize the characters captured for each of the plurality of captured images, and determine which one of the characters recognized from each of the plurality of captured images is to be output. The image processing apparatus determines, in accordance with a change aspect in time series of the characters recognized from each of the plurality of captured images, which one of the characters recognized from each of the plurality of captured images is to be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuuya Miyake
  • Patent number: 11406754
    Abstract: A disposable module that can be coupled to a reusable module in order to form a pump for dispensing a medicament substance to a user in a metered manner in a coupled state, comprising a housing that encases the following components: a reservoir for receiving the substance to be dispensed; and at least one extensible cannula, which is fluidically connected to the reservoir either after being inserted or in a permanent manner. The disposable module may also comprise an electrical energy store, wherein the electrical energy necessary for the reusable module can be obtained both from the disposable module and also from a rechargeable battery in the reusable module, in order to ensure redundancy of the energy necessary for the reusable module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TECMED AG
    Inventors: Ursina Streit, Seline Staub, Thomas Buri, Patrick Hostettler, Juerg Steck, Christophe Hofer, Andreas Koehli, Florian Kuehni, Marc Labudde, Thomas Leuzinger
  • Patent number: 11400237
    Abstract: Provided is a medicine infusion apparatus capable of infusing a liquid medicine into a human body by using a medicine container configured to discharge the liquid medicine contained therein, along a designated path when a pressure is applied from outside, the medicine infusion apparatus including one or more medicine pressing units including one or more inflatable parts capable of being inflated by air to apply a pressure to the medicine container, a first pumping unit capable of inflating one of the inflatable parts by including a first pump capable of generating air of a preset pressure, and a first pipe connectable to the one of the inflatable parts, and a heating unit including a thermoelectric module capable of heating the medicine within a preset temperature range. According to the present invention, the medicine infusion apparatus may be produced as a compact portable apparatus by using a low-capacity battery and be used for emergencies at accident sites where electricity may not be easily supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: IMPACT KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Moung Sook Lee
  • Patent number: 11400214
    Abstract: Methods and systems may quantify how much contrast fluid is injected into a patient by a powered fluid injector. A controller of the powered fluid injector can receive a command from a user to begin dispensing contrast fluid. The controller may determine whether a hemodynamic pressure signal is present from a pressure sensor in fluidic connection with the vasculature of the patient. The powered fluid injector may dispense a quantity of contrast fluid in response to the command. The controller may add the quantity of contrast fluid to an injection quantity if the hemodynamic pressure signal is present just prior to and/or just after the quantity of contrast fluid is dispensed. The controller may refrain from adding the quantity of contrast fluid to the injection quantity if the hemodynamic pressure signal is not present just prior to and/or just after the quantity of contrast fluid is dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: ACIST MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Blaise D. Porter
  • Patent number: 11389584
    Abstract: Priming systems and infusion assemblies are provided. For example, a priming system comprises a priming conduit having a priming portion and a pressure portion. The priming portion is in fluid communication with a first fluid source, with an inlet and an outlet for ingress and egress of a first fluid from the first fluid source. The pressure portion is in fluid communication with a second fluid source connected by a connector. Disposed within the priming conduit are a biasing member and a valve having an open position and a closed position. The biasing member is in operable communication with the valve to urge the valve into the closed position such that the valve defaults to the closed position. The open position allows the first fluid to flow from the inlet to the outlet and the closed position prevents the first fluid from flowing from the inlet to the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Avent, Inc.
    Inventor: Hector Dung Truong
  • Patent number: 11389585
    Abstract: A pressure jacket configured for connecting to an injector head of a fluid injector has an open distal end, an open proximal end, and a sidewall defining a throughbore extending between the distal end and the proximal end along a longitudinal axis. The throughbore is configured for receiving at least a portion of a syringe. The pressure jacket has at least one syringe retaining element positioned at least partially within the throughbore. The at least one syringe retaining element is configured for engaging at least a portion of the syringe during pressurized delivery of fluid from the syringe to prevent or limit a distal movement of the syringe relative to the pressure jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Michael Spohn, Kevin Cowan, Barry Tucker, Michael McDermott
  • Patent number: 11383029
    Abstract: An injector system for injecting fluid includes a syringe and an injector. The syringe includes a body and a plunger movably disposed within the body. The plunger has at least one flexible leg extending toward the rearward end of the body. The injector has a housing with a front plate, a drive member at least partially disposed within the housing and operable to engage the plunger, and a syringe release assembly operable to release the syringe. The syringe assembly includes a syringe release gear that forms an enclosure for receiving the syringe when the syringe is fully seated within the housing and a plunger release tube surrounding at least a portion of the drive member. The plunger release tube has a first end rotationally engaged with the syringe release gear. Rotation of the syringe release assembly releases the at least one flexible leg from the drive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Charles Lang, Christopher Swenglish, Luis Castillo, Stephen Schulte
  • Patent number: 11376363
    Abstract: A medicament delivery device includes a generally elongated tubular housing having opposite proximal and distal parts; a needle shield sleeve slidably and coaxially arranged inside the housing with a proximal part of the sleeve protruding a distance outside the proximal part of the housing; a syringe carrier mechanism having a syringe carrier slidably and coaxially arranged within the needle shield sleeve, a syringe having a stopper, a medicament, and a needle, the syringe being coaxially arranged within the syringe carrier; and a holding member connected to the syringe carrier; a first activator member an a second activator member; a drive mechanism adapted to accumulate a drive force for moving the syringe carrier mechanism in a first step and a second step. The second activator member is arranged within an information device for producing audible, visual, and/or tactile feedback to a user about a completed injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AG
    Inventor: Oscar Alexandersson
  • Patent number: 11369769
    Abstract: An anesthetic administration device comprising an infusion device, which is in fluid connection with a regional anesthetic needle by means of a feed tube. The infusion device comprises one or more anesthetic flow devices capable of triggering forward flow, and optionally backward flow, of the local anesthetic through the regional anesthetic needle. Forward, and optionally backward flow, of the local anesthetic through the regional anesthetic needle is controlled by a controller that comprises one or more actuator switches. The one or more actuator switches are positioned on the device 1 such that they may be operated by hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
    Inventors: Peter Jeffrey Young, Joseph Joachim Carter, Emad Eldin Fahmy Fawzy, John Edward Gibson
  • Patent number: 11369747
    Abstract: A syringe has a syringe body configured to receive a product for injection. Gripping wings are arranged at one end of the syringe body. A piston rod is mounted so as to be able to slide inside the syringe body. A stop is arranged at a first end of the piston rod and has an end-of-travel position inside the syringe body. A pusher is arranged at a second end of the piston rod. The pusher has a mass greater than or equal to a threshold value beyond which the syringe has a center of gravity situated outside the syringe body when the stop is in the end-of-travel position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Laboratoires Vivacy
    Inventors: Ludovic Heim, Denis Gantin