94 patents
Utility
Tube seal and cut device
2 Jan 24
A tube seal apparatus including a sealing iron having a tube sealing end, an insulating shroud having a tube clamping end, wherein the sealing iron is at least partially disposed within the insulating shroud.
Cameron Keller, Robert Alister Neil
Filed: 19 Mar 20
Utility
Apparatus and method for reprocessing a medical device
21 Nov 23
An apparatus and method for reprocessing a medical device includes a decontamination basin, a first flush conduit, a second flush conduit, and a manifold.
Sungwook Yang, Dang Minh Ngo
Filed: 29 Jan 21
Utility
Liquid-chemical sterilization system with biological indicator
14 Nov 23
A sterilization system includes a vial, a carrier of microorganisms disposed in the vial, and a fluid management system having an output connectable to the vial for delivering a liquid chemical sterilant and a neutralizer thereto.
Yan Fang, Prabhakaran Jayabalan, Benjamin M. Fryer
Filed: 17 Dec 19
Utility
Ampoule breaker for a biological indicator
24 Oct 23
A device for breaking an ampoule of a biological indicator includes: a main body; a pivoting body attached to the main body at a main pivot point; a receiving area in the main body and configured to receive the biological indicator; a pressing surface inside the pivoting body; and a compressing element including a compressing surface, the compressing surface being operable between a first position and a second position located in the receiving area.
Nick N. Nguyen, Samuel J. Rhodes, Mark J. Lubong, Derrick C. Tan
Filed: 4 Nov 21
Utility
Apparatus and method to asynchronously fill and purge channels of endoscope simultaneously
24 Oct 23
A method is provided for reprocessing an internal channel of a medical device with a reprocessing system having a valve, a fluid line fluidly coupled with the valve, and at least one sensor coupled with the fluid line.
Sungwook Yang
Filed: 5 Apr 22
Utility
Instrument reprocessor and instrument reprocessing methods
24 Oct 23
An instrument reprocessor for cleaning, disinfecting, and/or sterilizing a medical instrument is disclosed.
Nick N. Nguyen, Ujjal Bhaumik
Filed: 18 Sep 19
Utility
Systems, methods and apparatus for dispensing fluid to an object
10 Oct 23
Systems, methods and apparatus related to pre-wetting an edge portion of a bonded wafer prior to wetting a flat, horizontal portion of the bonded wafer.
Young-Shin Kwon, Paul Ivan John Keeton, James C. McKeon
Filed: 29 Oct 20
Utility
Apparatus and method to repeatedly fill and purge channels of endoscope
3 Oct 23
A medical device reprocessor is operable to perform a method of cleaning an internal channel of a medical device.
Sungwook Yang
Filed: 12 Oct 21
Utility
Estimation of unknown electronic load
26 Sep 23
A test and measurement instrument including a voltage source configured to output a source voltage, a current sensor, and one or more processors.
William C. Weeman
Filed: 5 Jun 20
Utility
Method of sterilizing medical devices, analyzing biological indicators, and linking medical device sterilization equipment
26 Sep 23
A biological indicator analyzer includes a plurality of wells, a plurality of organism detector features, and a user input feature such as a touch screen.
Brian J. Thompson, Jacob S. Childs, Chunhui Xie, Marco A. Mangiaterra, Darius D. Eghbal, Margaret D. Shaffer, Jeremy M. Yarwood, Benjamin M. Fryer, Howell B. Schwartz, Philippe Kanh Dang, Yaeer Lev, Venkata Danam
Filed: 10 Feb 20
Utility
User interface and method to configure sourcing and measurement timing
12 Sep 23
A configuration device in a test and measurement system including an event generator and a Device Under Test (DUT) to receive one or more events generated by the event generator includes an output display structured to graphically illustrate a first event timeline that includes source event markers for a first test channel for a second test channel, in which the first event timeline and the second event timeline appear on the output display as separate timelines vertically separated from one another.
Jeffrey J. Trgovich, James H. Hitchcock
Filed: 14 Apr 22
Utility
Systems and methods for ai-assisted electrical power grid fault analysis
22 Aug 23
Systems, methods, and processor-readable storage media for AI-assisted electrical power grid fault analysis predict the cause of a fault and cause the fault to be remedied by receiving an indication that a first fault has occurred, identifying a plurality of additional fault records associated with the first fault, obtaining a first prediction of the cause of the fault based on the first fault record and the plurality of fault records by applying the fault records to a machine learning model, obtaining a second prediction of the cause of the fault by applying the fault records to a rules-based model, and obtaining a final prediction of the cause of the first fault based on the first prediction and the second prediction.
Aaron Acton, Peter Glover, Mark Diamond, Peter Brett, David Cole, Paul Donegan
Filed: 27 Jul 22
Utility
Apparatus and method for adjusting a volume of a basin of a treatment apparatus
1 Aug 23
An apparatus and a method for adjusting a void volume of a basin of a treatment apparatus are provided.
Navid Omidbakhsh
Filed: 17 Oct 19
Utility
Apparatus and method for detecting improper positioning of removable component of sterilizing system
1 Aug 23
A sterilization system includes a sterilization chamber, a processor, and a sterilization module.
Doug Vo Truong, Lawrence Y. Mok
Filed: 29 Oct 19
Utility
Pulsed high current technique for characterization of device under test
18 Jul 23
A test and measurement circuit including a capacitor in parallel with a device under test, a direct current voltage source configured to charge the capacitor, a pulse generator configured to generate a pulse for testing the device under test, and a sensor for determining a current in the device under test.
Gregory Sobolewski
Filed: 24 Aug 20
Utility
Apparatus and method for sterilizing endoscope
11 Jul 23
A method of sterilizing an article includes receiving the article in a sterilization chamber.
Keyvan Nowruzi, Navid Omidbakhsh
Filed: 8 Apr 20
Utility
Apparatus and method for sterilizing medical devices
30 May 23
A sterilizing cabinet performs a method of processing a medical device, such as a used medical device or an otherwise non-sterile medical device.
Brian J. Thompson, Jacob S. Childs, Chunhui Xie, Marco A. Mangiaterra, Darius D. Eghbal, Margaret D. Shaffer, Jeremy M. Yarwood, Benjamin M. Fryer
Filed: 7 May 20
Utility
Apparatus and method for sterilizing endoscope
16 May 23
A method of sterilizing an article such as a flexible endoscope is performed in a sterilization chamber.
Keyvan Nowruzi, Navid Omidbakhsh
Filed: 19 Dec 18
Utility
Apparatus and method for detecting moisture in a vacuum chamber
16 May 23
A method of using a vacuum chamber to assist in detecting and removing moisture from an instrument having a lumen, e.g., an endoscope is disclosed.
Doug Vo Truong, Todd Morrison
Filed: 29 Oct 19
Utility
Method and system for determining rotational speed by means of video camera
28 Mar 23
A method for determining a rotational speed of a rotatably mounted component of a machine is disclosed, wherein image data of a marked region of the machine component are obtained in the form of a plurality of frames via a video camera, and the image data are evaluated, in order to determine the periodicity of the rotation of the machine component from the change over time of the image data in the frames of the machine component.
Cornelius Sommerer, Bhamy Narasimha Shenoy, Frank Votteler
Filed: 7 Aug 20