Joseph J Flaherty

US Patent:

D545438, Jun 26, 2007

Filed:

Apr 1, 2005

Appl. No.:

29/226834

Inventors:

Eileen Huang - Cambridge MA, US
Joseph Flaherty - Westford MA, US
Sonny Vu - Dorchester MA, US

Assignee:

Agamatrix, Inc. - Salem NH

International Classification:

2401

US Classification:

D24186

US Patent:

7438694, Oct 21, 2008

Filed:

Mar 7, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/276598

Inventors:

Brad Boozer - Marblehead MA, US
Joseph Flaherty - Westford MA, US
Timothy Golnik - Boxford MA, US

Assignee:

Agamatrix, Inc. - Salem NH

International Classification:

A61B 5/00
A61B 17/32

US Classification:

600583, 606181, 606182, 600584

Abstract:

A lancing device is used with a lancet for lancing body tissue to result in a wound for bleeding. An improved lancing device has a priming knob having a slanted priming notch rotatably connected to the lancing device about an axis of rotation generally parallel to a central axis of the lancing device and a strike path of a lancet carrier. Rotation, translation, or both rotation and translation of the priming knob allows a user to prime the lancing device.

US Patent:

7927345, Apr 19, 2011

Filed:

Nov 2, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/555974

Inventors:

Frederick Berkovitch - Cambridge MA, US
Brad Boozer - Marblehead MA, US
Joseph Flaherty - Westford MA, US
Timothy Golnik - Boxford MA, US
Sridhar Iyengar - Salem NH, US
Malia Kilpinen - Cambridge, GB
Sonny Vu - Salem NH, US

Assignee:

AgaMatrix, Inc. - Salem NH

International Classification:

A61B 5/151

US Classification:

606181

Abstract:

A lancet cartridge has a U-shaped support with a pair of anchor portions, a base portion, and a pair of deformable leg portions connecting the anchor portions to the base portion. The pair of deformable leg portions change shape from an initial shape to an extended shape in response to an external applied force and recover to a retracted shape upon removal of the force. The lancet cartridge also has a lancet having a tip end, an opposing base end, and an axis extending between the tip end and the base end. A portion of the lancet is disposed between the pair of deformable leg portions of the U-shaped support. The lancet is movable between a starting position, an extended puncturing position, and an ending position along the axis of the lancet in a path defined by the U-shaped support. When the lancet is in the starting position, the tip end of the lancet is disposed at least partially through the base portion of the U-shaped support, and the U-shaped support is in the initial shape. When the lancet is in the extended puncturing position, the tip end of the lancet is extended through the base of the U-shaped support, and the U-shaped support is in the extended shape.

US Patent:

7964146, Jun 21, 2011

Filed:

Apr 15, 2005

Appl. No.:

10/907790

Inventors:

Ian Harding - Somerville MA, US
Sridhar G. Iyengar - Salem NH, US
Baoguo Wei - Salem NH, US
Sonny Vu - Salem NH, US
Eileen Huang - Somerville MA, US
Joseph Flaherty - Westford MA, US
Steven Diamond - Somerville MA, US
Martin Forest - Nashua NH, US

Assignee:

AgaMatrix, Inc. - Salem NH

International Classification:

G01N 27/403
G01N 27/416

US Classification:

422 8201, 204775, 204792, 205400, 205409, 205410, 205411, 205412

Abstract:

The ability to switch at will between amperometric measurements and potentiometric measurements provides great flexibility in performing analyses of unknowns. Apparatus and methods can provide such switching to collect data from an electrochemical cell. The cell may contain a reagent disposed to measure glucose in human blood.

US Patent:

8162968, Apr 24, 2012

Filed:

Apr 9, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/733032

Inventors:

Brad Boozer - Marblehead MA, US
Joseph Flaherty - Westford MA, US
Timothy Golnik - Boxford MA, US

Assignee:

Agamatrix, Inc. - Salem NH

International Classification:

A61B 17/32

US Classification:

606182, 606167, 606181, 606184, 606185

Abstract:

A lancing device is used with a lancet for lancing body tissue to result in a wound for bleeding. The lancing device has a cantilevered priming arm having a first arm portion that is generally parallel to an internal channel of the device and a second arm portion that is generally perpendicular to the internal channel. The second arm portion is connected to a lancet carrier and movement of the first arm portion toward the internal channel draws the lancet carrier to a primed position and stores energy in a lancet driver.

US Patent:

D696404, Dec 24, 2013

Filed:

Mar 2, 2011

Appl. No.:

29/386518

Inventors:

Timothy Golnik - Stoneham MA, US
Joseph Flaherty - Salem NH, US

Assignee:

Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH - Frankfurt am Main

International Classification:

2401

US Classification:

D24169

US Patent:

20050276133, Dec 15, 2005

Filed:

Apr 15, 2005

Appl. No.:

10/907788

Inventors:

Ian Harding - Somerville MA, US
Sridhar Iyengar - Somerville MA, US
Baoguo Wei - Lowell MA, US
Sonny Vu - Cambridge MA, US
Eileen Huang - Hillsborough NJ, US
Joseph Flaherty - Westford MA, US
Steven Diamond - Somerville MA, US
Martin Forest - Cambridge MA, US

Assignee:

AGAMATRIX, INC. - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

G11C007/00

US Classification:

365203000

Abstract:

The ability to switch at will between amperometric measurements and potentiometric measurements provides great flexibility in performing analyses of unknowns. Apparatus and methods can provide such switching to collect data from an electrochemical cell. The cell may contain a reagent disposed to measure glucose in human blood.

US Patent:

20060233666, Oct 19, 2006

Filed:

Apr 15, 2005

Appl. No.:

10/907807

Inventors:

Sonny Vu - Cambridge MA, US
Gary Tsai - Cambridge MA, US
Joseph Flaherty - Westford MA, US
Stuart Blitz - Cambridge MA, US
Eileen Huang - Hillsborough NJ, US

Assignee:

AgaMatrix, Inc. - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

G01N 33/48
G01N 33/487

US Classification:

422068100, 204403010

Abstract:

Abstract of the DisclosureA test meter has a display, and has a test strip containing an electrochemical cell disposed to analyze a bodily fluid for a property of interest. While the analysis is in progress, the display is changed no less often than once per half second.