Battelle Memorial Institute

Careside, Inc.

Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc

Gas Research Institute

Owens Corning Fiberglas Technology, Inc.

Pocared Diagnostics Ltd.

Gp Technologies, Inc.

Eli Lilly and Company

American Metal Door Company, Inc.

Safety Medical Manufacturing, Incorporated

Douglas E Boyd

William Godwin Atterbury

Jan B Yates

Samuel Colachis

Collin F Dunlap

Michael L Marshall

David A Friedenberg

Nicholas Annetta

Charles A Burton

Herbert S Bresler

Po-Hsu Chen

Ian W Baumgart

James S Belt

Gal Ingber

Jason A Schaefer

Sherwood G Talbert

John S Laudo

Thomas Alan Klausing

John P Tallarico

Dave Holley

Ronald K Coleman

Russell H Barnes

Jonathan Gurfinkel

K Bryan Scott

Steven E Huckaby

Kevin Sadeski

Carol Stillman

Joseph D Dennis

Raymond Francis Jakubowicz

Kenneth E Hughes

Richard A Riedel

Donald James Moran, Jr

Mark Sawczuk

David A Easter

Gilbert Gonzales

Michael L Dee

Thomas D Haubert

Gaurav Sharma

Roger W Smith

David E Storvick

Daniel L Kennedy

Mark Gerard Diller

James S Hutchison

Peter Andrew Gaydos

John Stoughton

Glen Mathews

Roger Hammer

Joshua R Branch

Bobby Lee Walters

Elgene R Gillespie

James S Hutchinson

James J Ramey

Shannon Marie-Lynn Hoste

Lee R Van Dixhorn

Donald L Cooper

William Reid

Herb S Bresler

John Tallarico

A functional electrical stimulation (FES) device includes electrodes arranged to apply functional electrical stimulation to a body part of the user. FES stimulation is performed by: receiving values of a set of user metrics for the user; receiving a target position of the body part represented as values for a set of body part position measurements; determining a user-specific energization pattern for producing the target position based on the received target position and the received values of the set of user metrics for the user; and energizing the electrodes of the FES device in accordance with the determined user-specific energization pattern. The determination may utilize an FES calibration database with records having fields containing: values of the set of user metrics for reference users; energization patterns; and values of the set of body part position metrics for positions assumed by the body part in response to applying the energization patterns.

Calibration of electrode-to-muscle mapping for functional electrical stimulation

The invention provides methods and apparatus for injecting a medicine, especially a highly viscous medicine. Conventional methods and apparatus for injecting viscous medicines suffers suffer from a variety of problems such as excessive force during the initial needle insertion and initial injection. In an inventive method, during the initial phase of the injection, energy is stored in a torsion spring that is subsequently released during a later stage of the injection. The present invention also provides for an improved autoinjector; especially via the use of a combination compression and torsion spring that powers the injection through controlling force applied to a plunger via a screw flange or nut having pins that ride in a prescribed path down the length of the autoinjector.

Process and autoinjector device for injections with increased patient comfort

An activity assistance system includes a video camera arranged to acquire video of a person performing an activity, an output device configured to output human-perceptible prompts, and an electronic processor programmed to execute an activity script. The script comprises a sequence of steps choreographing the activity. The execution of each step includes presenting a prompt via the output device and detecting an event or sequence of events subsequent to the presenting of the prompt. Each event is detected by performing object detection on the video to detect one or more objects depicted in the video and applying one or more object-oriented image analysis functions to detect a spatial or temporal arrangement of one or more of the detected objects. Each event detection triggers an action comprising at least one of presenting a prompt via the output device and and/or going to another step of the activity script.

Activity assistance system

The invention provides methods and apparatus for injecting a medicine, especially a highly viscous medicine. Conventional methods and apparatus for injecting viscous medicines suffer from a variety of problems such as excessive force during the initial needle insertion and initial injection. In an inventive method, during the initial phase of the injection, energy is stored in a torsion spring that is subsequently released during a later stage of the injection. The present invention also provides for an improved autoinjector; especially via the use of a combination compression and torsion spring that powers the injection through controlling force applied to a plunger via a screw flange or nut having pins that ride in a prescribed path down the length of the autoinjector.

A system for conducting the identification and quantification of micro-organisms, e.g., bacteria in urine samples which includes: 1) several disposable cartridges for holding four disposable components including a centrifuge tube, a pipette tip having a 1 ml volume, a second pipette tip having a 0.5 ml volume, and an optical cup or cuvette; 2) a sample processor for receiving the disposable cartridges and processing the urine samples including transferring the processed urine sample to the optical cups; and 3) an optical analyzer for receiving the disposable cartridges and configured to analyze the type and quantity of micro-organisms in the urine sample. The disposable cartridges with their components including the optical cups or cuvettes are used in the sample processor, and the optical cups or cuvettes containing the processed urine samples are used in the optical analyzer for identifying and quantifying the type of micro-organism existing in the processed urine samples.

System for conducting the identification of bacteria in urine

A medication injector apparatus such as an injection pen. The injection pen may include a doseable quantity identifier that uses a rotational matrix and a sensor for electrically sensing the arrangement of the dose setting mechanism of the the pen, which identifier may be part of a therapeutic dose indicating system that utilizes a cartridge recognizer to recognize a concentration of medication so as to allow an automatic determination of a therapeutic dose.

Medication injector apparatus with drive assembly that facilitates reset

An immunodiagnostic test card includes a flat planar member and at least one dilution chamber that is supported by the flat planar member. The at least one dilution chamber can be disposed adjacent chambers used for testing a patient sample that are provided on the immunodiagnostic test card or can be provided separately.

Diluent wells produced in card format for immunodiagnostic testing

High-throughput centrifugation of batches of samples is achieved by dividing a single centrifugation run of a batch of samples into two or more staggered, discrete spins with fewer samples and in which the availability of centrifuge slots for loading or unloading of samples and the subsequent delivery of experimental results can be enhanced. The methodology is particularly useful in situations where multiple samples need to be processed rapidly, for example, as part of a STAT blood typing program in urgent care facilities prior to blood transfusion.

Split spin centrifugation of test elements

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Dublin, OH, United States of America

Douglas E Boyd