441 patents
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Utility
Implantable Fluid Conduit System
21 Oct 21
A fluid conduit includes a first portion having a first porosity, a second portion disposed immediately adjacent to the first portion, the second portion having a second porosity that is greater than the first porosity, and a third portion of the fluid conduit disposed immediately adjacent to the second portion, the third portion having a third porosity that is less than the second porosity.
Claudy J. Mullon
Filed: 1 Jul 21
Utility
System for Assessing and Mitigating Potential Spread of Infectious Disease Among Dialysis Patients
14 Oct 21
A method for mitigating the spread of infectious diseases among dialysis patients is provided.
Caitlin Kelly Monaghan, Peter Kotanko, John Larkin, Jeffrey Hymes, Kathleen Belmonte, Len Usvyat, Ines A. Dahne-Steuber, Franklin W. Maddux
Filed: 8 Apr 21
Utility
Blood Treatment Systems and Related Components and Methods
14 Oct 21
This disclosure relates to a blood treatment system including a blood treatment machine, a dialyzer configured to be coupled to the blood treatment machine, a blood line having a first end configured to be connected to the dialyzer and a second end configured to be connected to a needle for insertion into a patient, and one or more sensors operable to transmit, to the blood treatment machine, data related to tension along the blood line.
Eric Bergman, Lynn E. Jensen
Filed: 14 Apr 20
Utility
System and method for dialyzer evaluation
12 Oct 21
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for evaluating dialyzers used in different medical applications (e.g., hemodialysis).
Louis LeeGrande Barrett, Chih-Hu Ho, Eric Stroup
Filed: 30 Jul 20
Utility
Smart connector for a medical device
12 Oct 21
A sensor assembly measures characteristics of a fluid entering or exiting a patient via a catheter.
John Aaron Biewer, Kulwinder S. Plahey
Filed: 15 Jun 18
Utility
Intradialytic Monitoring of Hemodynamic Status Based on Detection of Oxygen Signature Phase Shift
7 Oct 21
A hemodialysis system includes: a hemodialysis machine configured to provide hemodialysis treatment to a patient, wherein the hemodialysis treatment includes circulating extracorporeal blood of the patient through an extracorporeal blood circuit; a first oxygen saturation sensor device configured to measure oxygen saturation corresponding to the extracorporeal blood of the patient in the extracorporeal blood circuit; a second oxygen saturation sensor device configured to measure oxygen saturation corresponding to blood flowing within the patient; and at least one controller configured to determine one or more oxygen saturation phase shift (OSPS) values or one or more transcutaneous travel time values corresponding to the patient based on oxygen saturation measurements from the first oxygen saturation sensor device and the second oxygen saturation sensor device.
Peter Kotanko, Stephan Thijssen, Priscila Preciado, Israel D. Campos, Xia Tao
Filed: 6 Apr 20
Utility
On demand dialysate mixing using concentrates
5 Oct 21
A dialysate mixing machine may be configured to make dialysate on demand using, among other things, a plurality of concentrates in solid tablet form.
Shashikant Dattatraya Kalaskar, Justin Clark, Tao Jiang
Filed: 10 May 17
Utility
Blood Monitoring System for Determining a Calibrated Hemoglobin Concentration Value for a Patient Based on Patient-specific Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration Data
30 Sep 21
A hemodialysis system includes a hemodialysis machine and a blood monitoring system.
Stephan Thijssen
Filed: 31 Mar 20
Utility
Sorbent Cartridge for Dialysate Regeneration
30 Sep 21
A sorbent cartridge device and a dialysis system comprising a dialysate generation machine dialysate generation machine, a pump adapted to move fluid through the dialysate generation machine, and a sorbent cartridge are described.
Kerissa Adams, Jon Moss, Lynn Jensen, Stephen Merchant
Filed: 31 Jul 19
Utility
Charging systems for devices related to dialysis treatments
28 Sep 21
In one aspect of the invention, a method of charging a medical device includes receiving radiofrequency signals from a remote machine remote from the medical device via a receiver of the medical device.
Donovan Halliburton, Alexander Joseph Brown, Kelly Yik
Filed: 2 Sep 20
Utility
Calculating a depletion time during dialysis
21 Sep 21
The disclosure relates to a dialysis machine that comprises a dialyzer, a fluid source, a first line connected to the fluid source, and a container containing bicarbonate.
David Yuds, Martin Joseph Crnkovich, Ken Chhi
Filed: 20 Jun 18
Utility
Authentication of medical device computing systems by using metadata signature
21 Sep 21
Computer code embedded in an electronic component (e.g., a processor, a sensor, etc.) of a medical device, such as a dialysis machine, can be authenticated by comparing a metadata signature derived from the computer code of the electronic component to a key derived from a pre-authenticated code associated with the electronic component.
Norbert Leinfellner, Joseph Edwin Inase Manakkil, Paolo Pochendorfer
Filed: 4 Sep 19
Utility
Methods and systems for measuring and heating dialysate
7 Sep 21
The present specification provides a dialysate management system for generating, weighing, and heating a dialysate fluid during a dialysis treatment.
Barry Neil Fulkerson, Brian Thomas Kelly
Filed: 7 Apr 17
Utility
Systems and Methods for Treating and Estimating Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease
26 Aug 21
Exemplary systems and methods for estimating progression of chronic kidney disease in a patient and applying clinical interventions may include determining historic values of at least one patient parameter that varies as a function of the progression of the chronic kidney disease over time, and computationally estimating a trend corresponding to the historic values.
Thomas C. Blanchard, Len Usvyat, Yuedong Wang, Peter Kotanko, Dugan W. Maddux, Franklin W. Maddux
Filed: 7 May 21
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Performance enhancing additives for fiber formation and polysulfone fibers
24 Aug 21
The present invention relates to the use of additives in processes to form polymeric fibers.
Cheryl Ford, Jiunn Teo, Leslie Schmidt
Filed: 27 Dec 18
Utility
Microporous Membrane And Methods To Make Same
12 Aug 21
A method is disclosed for forming a microporous membrane that incorporates an additive having low water solubility at the membrane's active surface from a precipitation fluid.
Praveen Kosaraju, Monica P. Hall, Jiunn Teo
Filed: 26 Apr 21
Utility
Augmented Reality-Based Training and Troubleshooting for Medical Devices
12 Aug 21
Augmented reality-based training and troubleshooting is described for medical devices.
Kulwinder S. Plahey, Stephen A. Merchant, James Peterson, Harvey Cohen, Matthew Buraczenski, John E. Tremblay
Filed: 30 Apr 21
Utility
Implantable fluid conduit
10 Aug 21
A fluid conduit includes a first portion having a first porosity, a second portion disposed immediately adjacent to the first portion, the second portion having a second porosity that is greater than the first porosity, and a third portion of the fluid conduit disposed immediately adjacent to the second portion, the third portion having a third porosity that is less than the second porosity.
Claudy J. Mullon
Filed: 14 Oct 19
Utility
Optical detection of air bubbles in either saline or blood or a mixture of both
10 Aug 21
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a system and method for detection of a transient air bubble in an arterial blood flow path during dialysis (e.g., hemodialysis).
Mohammad M. Khair
Filed: 22 Jan 20
Utility
Rotary valves for dialysis systems
10 Aug 21
In one aspect, a dialysis fluid cassette includes an inlet fluid line, multiple outlet fluid lines, and a valve including an actuation feature by which the valve can be rotated to fluidly communicate the inlet fluid line with a selected fluid line of the multiple outlet fluid lines.
Jon F. Moss, Bert D. Egley, Philip Scott James, James Peterson
Filed: 23 Jul 19