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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8439863 | Methods for controlling medical fluid injections The present invention is directed to control of medical fluid injection systems. For instance, in some embodiments, an injection protocol may be initiated, and an actual flow rate of the medical fluid utilized in the injection protocol may be adjusted based, at leas... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8435209 | Connection and alignment detection systems and methods A medical device includes a first housing portion (FHP) and a second housing portion (SHP) configured to be to be movable relative to each other from a first position to operatively engage at a second position to couple at least one of a drive device and a needle-in... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8414522 | Fluid delivery systems and methods A method of dispensing fluid includes three processes. A first one of these processes includes pumping fluid into a resilient variable-volume dispensing chamber. The dispensing chamber is in series with a normally present finite fluid impedance and an output. The im... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8414523 | Infusion pump with add-on modules This document discusses, among other things, an apparatus comprising a pump configured to deliver a fluid, a wireless communication port, a controller, and a housing to enclose the apparatus. The controller is configured to communicate with a second device via the c... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8409134 | Power injector having calibrated pressure monitoring functionality Control logic (110) for a power injector is disclosed, where this power injector control logic (110) includes a syringe fill protocol (114), a pressure calibration protocol (116), a pressure monitoring protocol (118), and an inject... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8398582 | Fluid pressure sensing chamber A pressure sensing chamber having a tubing extension with a reduced diameter portion extending through the chamber. The tubing contains a plurality of ports so as to allow the purging of air from the chamber, but the ports are sized so that bubbles entering the tubi... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8394051 | Micro-fluidic dead-end channel structure for pressure measurement within a fluid channel on the basis of the change of the volume of a trapped gas bubble A device for detecting pressure and/or temperature changes in a fluid-channel and method thereof are disclosed. The device includes a main duct with an inlet and an outlet, a branch ductwork with a first branch end branching off the main duct downwards the inlet and... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8382701 | Method for ensuring constant speed of a motor in an injection device The present invention relates to a method for ensuring a constant target speed of a battery driven electrical motor, the battery driven electrical motor being adapted to move a piston rod in an injection device so as to inject a set dose of medicine from the injecti... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8382702 | Fluid injection device and medical instrument including fluid injection device Fluid is pressurized and supplied to a fluid chamber with a fluid pressurizing and supplying unit. The pressurized fluid within the fluid chamber is ejected through an injection nozzle by reduction of the volume of the fluid chamber caused by applying a driving volt... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8382703 | Piezoelectric dual-syringe insulin pump The piezoelectric dual-syringe insulin pump includes a single piezoelectric motor configured to pump insulin. The pump is controlled by a single controller. The pump uses two insulin reservoirs (in the form of two syringes), one of which is filled with a rapid-actin... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8376985 | Hand-held electronically controlled injection device for injecting liquid medications A medication delivery device includes a housing, a door coupled to the housing and moveable between a closed position and an open position. The door permits insertion of a medication container, containing liquid medication, into the housing in the open position. A d... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8361010 | Infusion pump including pain controlled analgesic (“PCA”) apparatus An infusion pump includes: a housing, a pump actuator supported by the housing, electronics configured to control the pump actuator, a pain controlled analgesic (“PCA”) input device, a cord having a remote end connected to the PCA input device and a local end co... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8353864 | Low cost disposable infusion pump Disclosed is a low cost, disposable, infusion pump. The infusion pump can include an integrated occlusion detector that detects both upstream and downstream occlusions in an infusion tube. In addition, the infusion pump can easily monitor flow rates through the infu... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8343093 | Fluid delivery device with autocalibration A micro fluid delivery device is particularly useful in medical applications. The device may be worn or carried by the user and may deliver drugs or other medicaments to the user or patient. The device has a control system that accepts input from the user and contro... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8323234 | Medication delivery device The medication delivery device is designed to receive a replaceable medication container and to determine an adjusted medication dose AD for each medication container received if the amount of medication contained in the medication container is not a multiple of a p... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8308680 | Selective alarms for an infusion device An infusion system to administer a fluid includes an infusion pump with a pump processor, a pump memory to store a plurality of configurable alarms and a pump radio to enable bi-directional communication. The infusion system further includes a controller that has a ... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8308679 | Alignment systems and methods A delivery system for delivering fluidic media may include a second housing configured to be selectively operatively engaged with and disengaged from a first housing portion adapted to be carried by a user. One of the housing portions may support a reservoir for con... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8303535 | Delivery device for use with a therapeutic drug A compact and one time use, self-administration device (10) for administering medication is disclosed. The device includes a housing (12) having a start button (26), a status indicator (28), a window (30), and a surface removably a... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8292842 | Automatically indentifying therapy delivery component connected to implantable medical device A therapy delivery component is connected to an IMD with a coupling that has a known physical property, based upon which the type and/or connection status of the therapy delivery component is automatically identified. ... | 10/23/2012 |
| 8292843 | Device and method for the automatic initiation of an injection A system and method to automatically initiate an injection procedure of a medicament into a patient. In the system, a delivery assembly includes an injector for infusing the medicament into the patient. Further, the system includes a monitor for detecting a paramete... | 10/23/2012 |
| 8287488 | Holographic occlusion detection system for infusion pumps A holographic occlusion detection system has a white-light holographic label placed onto a sensing portion or surface of a pressure sensor connected to infusion tubing. The pressure sensor at the sensing portion can have a relatively thin wall section and may be wid... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8282595 | Powerhead of a power injection system A contrast media injection system detects the absolute position of the syringe ram using a non-contact sensor. A series of magnets and Hall-Effect sensors may be used or an opto-reflective system. Illuminated knobs that are connected to the drive mechanism for the s... | 10/09/2012 |
| 8273052 | Fully automated control system for type 1 diabetes An augmented, adaptive algorithm utilizing model predictive control (MPC) is developed for closed-loop glucose control in type 1 diabetes. A linear empirical input-output subject model is used with an MPC algorithm to regulate blood glucose online, where the subject... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8262603 | Surgical fluid management A fluid flow device includes a housing configured to releasably mate with a surgical control unit for controlling fluid flow during a surgical procedure. First and second ports measure fluid pressure within a fluid path provided within the housing. The fluid flow de... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8231566 | Fluid delivery system and flow control therefor A fluid delivery system having a closed-loop control process for delivering a medical fluid to a patient. A fluid infusion system includes a pump for delivering a fluid to a patient via an administration tube. A flow sensor associated with the administration tube pr... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8226597 | Fluid delivery system and flow control therefor A fluid delivery system having a closed-loop control process for delivering a medical fluid to a patient. A fluid infusion system includes a pump for delivering a fluid to a patient via an administration tube. A flow sensor associated with the administration tube pr... | 07/24/2012 |
| 8221346 | Blood sugar level control system The present invention relates to a blood sugar level control system equipped with an insulin dispensing device 2 and a blood sugar measuring device 3. An attachment mechanism 4 is provided which serves to couple the insulin dispensing device ... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8216177 | Implantable drug delivery systems and methods Devices, systems and methods for delivering one or more drugs to one or more internal body locations (such as the cerebrospinal fluid) are disclosed. In various aspects, the systems and methods may involve catheters having infusion sections with permeable membranes ... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8211054 | System and method for controlling administration of medical fluid A system for controlling administration of medical fluid includes a fluid passageway to which is attached a first flow regulator, a second flow regulator, and a flow detector. The system also includes a controller for controlling the first and second flow regulators... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8206342 | Fluid management system A fluid management system with a detection circuit for detecting whether an attached surgical device is operational. The fluid management system changes at least one operation mode when the surgical device is detected as being operational. The fluid management syste... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8206341 | Device and process for controlling the depth of sedation of a mechanically respirated patient A device is provided for controlling the depth of sedation of a respirated patient. The device includes a respirator (2) and a sensor array (1) for detecting the tidal volume and/or the respiration rate of the patient being respirated. A computing unit... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8202243 | Fluid pressure sensing chamber A pressure sensing chamber having a tubing extension extending through the chamber. The tubing contains a plurality of ports so as to allow the purging of air from the chamber, but the ports are sized so that bubbles entering the tubing cannot easily flow into the c... | 06/19/2012 |
| 8197438 | Medicinal fluid delivery systems and methods for priming the same Medicinal fluid delivery systems and methods for priming the same are disclosed. The systems may be configured to measure an electro-transmissive quality of a medicinal fluid when: medicinal fluid is dispensed into a fluid delivery path, a proximal end of the fluid ... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8197439 | Fluid volume determination for medical treatment system A volume of fluid moved by a pump, such as a pump in an APD system, may be determined without direct measurement of the fluid, such as by flow meter, weight, etc. For example, a volume of a pump chamber (181) (having a movable element that varies the volume o... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8197437 | Systems and methods of modeling pharmaceutical propagation in a patient An injection system includes an injector for injecting a fluid into a patient and a controller in operative communication with the injector for control thereof. The controller controls a diagnostic injection of the fluid based upon at least one mathematical model in... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8182445 | Method and system for controlled infusion of therapeutic substances Programmable infusion systems and method for controlled infusion of diagnostic or therapeutic substances (e.g., drugs, biologics, fluids, cell preparations, etc.) into the bodies of human or animal subjects. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177739 | Rapid infusion system A rapid infusion system for the intravenous delivery of fluids at standard and rapid flow rates. The system includes a pump assembly, a drive assembly to power the pump, and a fluid containment system that keeps the infused fluid out of direct contact with the pump ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8162874 | Medical pump with fixed stroke length A method comprises measuring a volume of fluid delivered per pump stroke for each of a plurality of substantially identical medical pumps. The substantially identical medical pumps each have a fixed stroke length. The method further comprises: storing indications of... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8157763 | Insufflating system, method, and computer program product for controlling the supply of a distending media to an endoscopic device The present invention is directed to a system, method, and computer program product for controlling the supply of a distending media (such as an insufflating gas) from a distending media source to an endoscopic device so as to prevent the excess venting and/or waste... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8147447 | High precision infusion pump controller A controller for closed loop control of infusion devices is described. A variety of infusion systems are described that use the closed loop control architecture. In some embodiments the closed loop control may be adapted to current commonly used infusion means such ... | 04/03/2012 |
