199 patents
Utility
User experience computing system for gathering and processing user experience information
16 Jan 24
Enterprise organizations may use observational data to gather information about user experiences with their products and tools.
Daniel L. Sloat, Beth Kun, Brittany R. Aube, Benjamin N. Davies, Derek Merrikin
Filed: 23 Oct 20
Utility
System for tailoring dialysis treatment based on sensed potassium concentration, patient data, and population data
12 Dec 23
A dialysis system is provided that includes a dialysis machine and a potassium sensing device that is configured to measure the concentration of potassium in the patient's blood, in spent dialysate resulting from treating the patient, or in both.
Stephen Merchant, Roland Levin, Chris Chau, Shakil Aslam
Filed: 26 Oct 22
Utility
Systems and methods for measuring electrical characteristic of medical fluids
12 Dec 23
A device for measuring conductivity of a fluid.
Philip Scott James, Jon F. Moss, Lynn E. Jensen, Mary Hoover, Spencer Barrett
Filed: 21 Apr 20
Utility
Integrated cross contamination sensors
5 Dec 23
In some embodiments, a medical system includes a dialysis machine having at least one outer surface to be disinfected at a given location, at least one disinfection sensor connected to the dialysis machine at the given location, the disinfection sensor including two or more electrode in fluid contact with the outside surface of the dialysis machine, and a conductivity sensor component in electrical contact with the two or more electrodes, the conductivity sensor component configured to send an electrical signal indicating a conductivity of a liquid on an outside surface of the dialysis machine and in contact with the two or more electrodes, a processor configured to receive the electrical signal and thereby determine a disinfection status of the given location, and a user interface configured to indicate the disinfection status of the given location.
Martin Joseph Crnkovich, Colin Weaver, Christian Schlaeper
Filed: 2 Dec 22
Utility
Optical blood detection system
28 Nov 23
The present invention relates to an optical blood detector system that rapidly detects the presence of blood due to a blood leak in a system.
Philip Scott James
Filed: 8 Sep 16
Utility
Home dialysis supplies delivery robot, network, and method
28 Nov 23
A delivery robot is provided for the delivery of home dialysis supplies to a home dwelling of a home dialysis patient.
Eric Bergman, Jessica Steuber, David Yuds, Jonathan Leclerc
Filed: 24 Mar 21
Utility
Syringe warmer
7 Nov 23
A method includes, after an extracorporeal blood treatment, connecting a fluid source to an access line that is connected to a patient, and delivering a fluid from the fluid source to the access line to infuse blood from the access line to the patient, wherein the fluid delivered to the access line has a temperature from about 30 degrees Celsius to about 38 degrees Celsius.
David Yuds, Samiullah K. Durrani, Martin Joseph Crnkovich
Filed: 6 Dec 19
Utility
Voice interface for a dialysis machine
17 Oct 23
A dialysis system, comprising: a dialysis machine; a voice recognition component configured to identify a voice command in audio information received by a microphone of the dialysis system; an authentication component configured to determine a source of the voice command; and a processor configured to perform a function determined based on the voice command.
Lee Daniel Tanenbaum, Fei Wang, Mario Gumina, Thomas Merics, Eric Hoffstetter, Matthew Doyle, Aleo Nobel Mok, Wayne Raiford
Filed: 29 Mar 21
Utility
Augmented reality-based training and troubleshooting for medical devices
10 Oct 23
Augmented reality-based training and troubleshooting is described for medical devices.
Harvey Cohen, Matthew Buraczenski, John E. Tremblay, Kulwinder S. Plahey, Stephen A. Merchant, James Peterson
Filed: 30 Apr 21
Utility
Systems and methods for delivery of peritoneal dialysis (PD) solutions with integrated inter-chamber diffuser
10 Oct 23
The invention provides, in some aspects, a container system for medical solutions such as peritoneal dialysis (PD) solutions.
Lynn E. Jensen, Venugopal R. Ghatikar, DeLoy Lindley, Melvin D. Jensen
Filed: 9 Oct 20
Utility
Electrical plug for a medical device
3 Oct 23
A dialysis machine comprising: a power supply for providing power to the dialysis machine, the power supply including a power supply cable that includes a first ground wire electrically connected to a first ground prong; and a hydraulics system for making dialysate, supplying the dialysate to a dialysate circuit, and draining spent dialysate from the dialysate circuit, the hydraulics system including a hydraulics grounding cable that includes a second ground wire electrically connected to a second ground prong.
Martin Joseph Crnkovich, Colin Weaver, David Yuds
Filed: 8 Apr 22
Utility
Safety mechanism for a dialysis system
19 Sep 23
A dialysis machine (e.g., a peritoneal dialysis (PD) machine) can include a safety feature that is used to isolate individual fluid lines attached to a disposable cassette.
Kulwinder Plahey
Filed: 15 Sep 20
Utility
Parabiotic dialysis systems and techniques
19 Sep 23
The present teachings generally include parabiotic dialysis systems and techniques.
Stefan Weiss, Peter Kotanko, Roland Sander
Filed: 21 Jun 21
Utility
On demand dialysate mixing using concentrates
12 Sep 23
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: 2 Sep 21
Utility
Intradialytic monitoring of hemodynamic status based on detection of oxygen signature phase shift
5 Sep 23
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
Fluid line connectors
15 Aug 23
A male luer connector includes a body having a first end configured to be connected to a fluid line, a second end opposed to the first end, and a body longitudinal axis.
Lynn E. Jensen, Melvin D. Jensen
Filed: 11 Feb 19
Utility
Authentication of medical device computing systems by using metadata signature
15 Aug 23
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: 11 Aug 21
Utility
Administering dialysis treatment using a hybrid automated peritoneal dialysis system
8 Aug 23
A dialysis machine (e.g., a peritoneal dialysis (PD) machine) can include a control unit configured to operate in a hybrid automated mode during a PD treatment.
Kulwinder Plahey, James Peterson
Filed: 4 Jun 20
Utility
Medical system with docking station and mobile machine
25 Jul 23
A computer-implemented medical system is provided.
David Yuds, Samiullah K. Durrani
Filed: 24 Dec 19
Utility
Resource-generating dialysis system
18 Jul 23
A dialysis system (e.g., a hemodialysis (HD) system) can be designed to operate in alternative environments, such as disaster relief settings or underdeveloped regions.
Roger Caluya, Martin Joseph Crnkovich, Bert D. Egley, David Charles Griffith, Jr., Roland Levin, Houssein Nasseri, Kulwinder S. Plahey, David Yuds
Filed: 16 Mar 20