3m Innovative Properties Company

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Graseby Medical Limited

Peter M Eisenberg

Mitchell B Grunes

Martin A Kenner

Cindy L Munson

David T Berquist

John M Kruse

Timothy A Mertens

Jia Hu

Thomas G Skulley

Robert J Schilling

Donald George Peterson

Steven B Heinecke

Richard E Raby

Naimul Karim

Bernard A Gonzalez

Chaodi Li

Nicholas A Stark

Phong VanThanh Ha

Paul A Sevcik

Jennifer N Hanson

Daniel P Decabooter

Matthew H Fryxell

Shilpi K Sanghi

Diane E Morel

Brian Westover

Casey L Carlson

Scott D Pearson

Jon A Kirschhoffer

Chester Piotrowski

Robert A Sainati

Jonathan P Van Dore

Edward D Goff

Michele A Waldner

Janet T Keller

David P Erickson

Theresa M Meyer

Daniel K McIntyre

Edmund J Ring

William J Kelliher, Jr

Phong V Ha

Michael E O'Brien

Richard H Schmidt

Janelle J Kozak

Gene J Hickok

Althea M Robins

Anne F Mickelson

Stella D Larson

Dale R Bohnert

A securement device for securing a medical article is disclosed. The securement device comprises a base and a first securing portion comprising a strap that is movable between an open position and a closed position and a connector disposed on the base. The strap cooperates with the connector in the closed position to form an enclosure. The strap further comprises a curvilinear segment that projects inwardly into the enclosure in a convex orientation when the strap is in the closed position. Securement systems for securing medical articles and methods of securing at least a portion of a medical article to a patient are also provided.

Catheter securement device

Brackets, systems comprising a bracket, and methods for securing medical articles. The bracket can include a base, a post coupled to the base and extending upwardly from the base in a direction generally normal to a first major surface of the base, and an arm coupled to the base and extending generally parallel to the first major surface of the base. The arm can be spaced a distance from the first major surface of the base to define a channel under the arm that is dimensioned to receive at least a portion of the medical article. The arm can be cantilevered, and the post and the arm can each be fixed with respect to the base. Methods can include abutting an external surface of the medical article against the post; and moving a portion of the medical article into the channel defined by the arm.

Medical article securement systems and methods of using same

Securement device

A medical article securement system comprising a bracket and a flap for securing a medical article. The bracket can include a base, and an arm coupled to the base and extending generally parallel to the first major surface of the base. The arm can be spaced a distance from the first major surface of the base to define a channel under the arm that can be dimensioned to receive at least a portion of the medical article. The flap can include a fixed end, and a free end that is movable with respect to the bracket between a first position in which the flap is not positioned over the bracket, and a second position in which at least a portion of the flap is positioned over the bracket to further inhibit movement of the medical article. The fixed end of the flap can be coupled to the bracket.

Medical article securement systems comprising a bracket and a flap

First program code is executed at a content recipient so as to identify a content provider having posted content of interest to the content recipient. Second program code is executed at the content recipient so as to automatically access the content provider and initiate receipt by the content recipient of the posted content.

Display of software notes accessed by content recipient from content provider site

Techniques are described for providing an environment to model and depict a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a patient's dental arch, i.e., a virtual dental arch, and a separate cross section tool, such as a graphical user interface (GUI), as a visual aid to an orthodontic practitioner for selecting a position of cross section planes relative to the virtual dental arch. The GUI may display a control image and two moveable parallel lines. The position of the parallel lines relative to the control image approximates the position of the cross section planes relative to the virtual dental arch. Thus, by interacting with the GUI, the practitioner is able to change the position of the cross section planes within the 3D environment. Consequently, the practitioner can visualize the cross sections of the virtual dental arch within the 3D environment while selecting the position of the cross section planes.

User interface having cross section control tool for digital orthodontics

Computer-based techniques are described that use orthodontic prescription templates to assist an orthodontic practitioner in creating a patient-specific orthodontic prescription. In particular, an orthodontic practitioner may retrieve a stored electronic orthodontic prescription template. The practitioner may then generate an orthodontic prescription that is specific to a patient's teeth by modifying one or more bracket attributes of the template within orthodontic modeling software. Subsequently, the practitioner may communicate the patient-specific orthodontic prescription to a manufacturing facility that constructs an indirect bonding tray for use in physically placing brackets on the patient's teeth.

Orthodontic prescription form, templates, and toolbar for digital orthodontics

The present invention relates to various methods of collecting and using data from RFID tags associated with items of interest. In one embodiment, the permissible error tolerance associated with the location of an RFID-tagged item may be altered, either manually or automatically. In another embodiment, RFID-tagged items may be associated with certain categories of items, based either on default or user-specified categories.

RFID data collection and use

Various systems and methods of handling items such as files are disclosed, including systems and methods for polling RFID-tagged items while they are stored in storage areas.

Radio frequency identification in document management

The present invention implements, in a data processing environment, many of the attributes of paper Post-it&#xae; notes. The note program of the present invention need not be resident in an application program, and the notes of the present invention may be moved directly between windows or between regions without being saved in an intermediate memory, may be easily dispensed either from a note dispenser of a window or on a desktop, may overlap the boundary of a window, may be automatically saved, may be attached to a document within a window so that the note moves with the document, may overlap a boundary of a window, may be resized with the constraint that the note may not be resized off of a window, may be moved across a window boundary, and may be attached to an object, such as a character, a word, a sentence, or paragraph of a document.

Software notes

Display of software notes indicating that content from a content provider site is available for display

A user interface for a radio frequency identification interrogation system is disclosed, which interface may include graphics, sounds, lights, or combinations of the foregoing that provide information to a user in regard to the materials being interrogated.

User interface for portable RFID reader

Handheld interrogator

Printed articles such as flag or tab media can be printed with text and/or graphic objects specified by a user. The flag or tab media are useful in marking and indexing functions. The printed text and/or graphic objects can enhance the communicative and organizational effects of the tab or flag media, conveying information indicative of order, sequence, or identification. The flag or tab media can be arranged on a print sheet that is fed into a desktop printer. The layout of the flag or tab media on the print sheet can necessitate &ldquo;upside-down&rdquo; printing of the objects in certain areas to achieve an appropriate orientation during use, particularly for folded or inverted media. In this manner, the orientation of an object is flipped according to its position on the media. A design application program executed by a computing system allows an end user to design objects on flag or tab media without worrying about the necessary flipping functions. The application automates the flipping functions, and incorporates them into the workflow of the design process.

Design of text and graphic imagery on flag or tab media

The present invention implements, in a data processing environment, many of the attributes of paper Post-it&reg; notes. The note program of the present invention need not be resident in an application program, and the notes of the present invention may be moved directly between windows or between regions without being saved in an intermediate memory, may be easily dispensed either from a note dispenser of a window or on a desktop, may overlap the boundary of a window, may be automatically saved, may be attached to a document within a window so that the note moves with the document, may overlap a boundary of a window, may be resized with the constraint that the note may not be resized off of a window, may be moved across a window boundary, and may be attached to an object, such as a character, a word, a sentence, or paragraph of a document.

Topography of software notes

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Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Peter M Eisenberg