Mark G Albrecht

US Patent:

6763728, Jul 20, 2004

Filed:

Oct 26, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/697943

Inventors:

Mark Christopher Albrecht - Chanhassen MN

Assignee:

Arizant Healthcare Inc. - Eden Prairie MN

International Classification:

G01N 300

US Classification:

73838

Abstract:

A method for evaluating a seal on a package is disclosed. The method includes determining the value of a burst test force parameter. The burst test force parameter being a parameter that results from a force placed on the package during a burst test. The method also includes using the value of the burst test force parameter to determine a value of a peel test force parameter for the package. The peel test force parameter being a parameter that results from a force placed on the package during a peel test.

US Patent:

7100394, Sep 5, 2006

Filed:

Sep 27, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/261160

Inventors:

Mark Thomas Bieberich - Minnetonka MN, US
Ryan S. Augustine - Bloomington MN, US
Scott D. Augustine - Bloomington MN, US
Mark Christopher Albrecht - Chanhassen MN, US

Assignee:

Arizant HealthCare Inc. - Eden Prairie MN

International Classification:

F25D 3/02

US Classification:

62420, 62421, 62425, 62460

Abstract:

An adaptor enables a convective treatment system to be modified for cooling by providing a bath of pressurized, cooled air intended to lower the body core temperature of a person. The adaptor may be constructed for being coupled between a blower assembly that provides a stream of pressurized air and a convective treatment device that receives the stream of pressurized air, distributes it, and provides it for bathing the body of a person in a general bath of cooled air in order to produce a desired clinical effect such as prevention or alleviation of hyperthermia or for thermal comfort. Such an adaptor may be embodied as an enclosure having a shaped internal cavity. The shape is useful for effectively and efficiently distributing a flow of pressurized over, around and through a bed of ice disposed in the cavity. Ports are provided in the enclosure for introducing a flow of pressurized air into, and receiving a flow of pressurized air from, the cavity.

US Patent:

7226454, Jun 5, 2007

Filed:

Dec 7, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/005883

Inventors:

Mark Christopher Albrecht - Chanhassen MN, US
Andrew Jacob McGregor - Minneapolis MN, US
Thomas P. Anderson - Savage MN, US
Gary L. Hansen - Eden Prairie MN, US

Assignee:

Arizant Healthcare Inc. - Eden Prairie MN

International Classification:

A61F 7/02

US Classification:

606104, 607108

Abstract:

A warming device includes a clinical garment having an inside surface supporting a convective apparatus with separately-inflatable sections, each adapted to enable a particular mode of warming. Each section has a surface or region with a permeability that varies from the permeability of a surface or region in another section.

US Patent:

7931682, Apr 26, 2011

Filed:

May 9, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/801292

Inventors:

Mark Christopher Albrecht - Chanhassen MN, US
Andrew Jacob McGregor - Minneapolis MN, US
Thomas P. Anderson - Savage MN, US
Gary L. Hansen - Eden Prairie MN, US

Assignee:

Arizant Healthcare Inc. - Eden Prairie MN

International Classification:

A61F 7/02

US Classification:

607108, 407104

Abstract:

A warming device includes a clinical garment having an inside surface supporting a convective apparatus with separately-inflatable sections, each adapted to enable a particular mode of warming. Each section has a surface or region with a permeability that varies from the permeability of a surface or region in another section.

US Patent:

8414671, Apr 9, 2013

Filed:

Oct 6, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/574539

Inventors:

Scott D. Augustine - Bloomington MN, US
Mark C. Albrecht - Minneapolis MN, US
Joshua P. Waldman - Edina MN, US
Randall C. Arnold - Minnetonka MN, US

Assignee:

Augustine Biomedical and Design, LLC - Eden Prairie MN

International Classification:

A47G 9/00
A62B 7/00

US Classification:

553852, 55467, 55DIG 29, 12820512, 12820527, 12820529

Abstract:

Devices, methods and systems for creating a zone of filtered air proximate a head of a user including an air filtration device including a blower being configured to be disposed within, below, or affixed to a bedding structure, an air plenum in flow communication with the blower and in support of the head of the user and having an air delivery surface configured to distribute the air flow to the zone of filtered air, and a filter disposed within the device for filtering the air flow before it is distributed to the zone of filtered air.

US Patent:

20070068932, Mar 29, 2007

Filed:

Sep 29, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/537065

Inventors:

Karen Hewes - Stillwater MN, US
Scott Augustine - Bloomington MN, US
Mark Albrecht - Minneapolis MN, US
Randall Arnold - Minnetonka MN, US
Thomas Neils - Minneapolis MN, US

International Classification:

H05B 3/10

US Classification:

219552000

Abstract:

Certain embodiments pertain to a heater for warming a patient's extremity in order to cause vasodilation for facilitating venous catheterization.

US Patent:

20080307970, Dec 18, 2008

Filed:

Feb 25, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/037079

Inventors:

Scott D. Augustine - Bloomington MN, US
Mark C. Albrecht - Minneapolis MN, US
Randall C. Arnold - Minnetonka MN, US
Ryan S. Augustine - Minneapolis MN, US
Ryan Barrows - Maple Grove MN, US
Andrew McGregor - Minnetonka MN, US

Assignee:

AUGUSTINE BIOMEDICAL AND DESIGN, LLC - Eden Prairie MN

International Classification:

B01D 46/02

US Classification:

95273, 55364

Abstract:

A neck-worn personal air filtration device for providing a zone of filtered air around or near a user's breathing zone is described. The device comprises a blower, a hose, and a neck-worn plenum including a filter. Air blown from the blower, passes through the hose and into the plenum exiting the plenum. The air is filtered by a filter for breathing by the user.

US Patent:

20080308106, Dec 18, 2008

Filed:

Feb 25, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/037078

Inventors:

Scott D. Augustine - Bloomington MN, US
Mark C. Albrecht - Minneapolis MN, US
Randall C. Arnold - Minnetonka MN, US
Ryan S. Augustine - Minneapolis MN, US
Ryan Barrows - Maple Grove MN, US
Andrew McGregor - Minnetonka MN, US

Assignee:

AUGUSTINE BIOMEDICAL AND DESIGN, LLC - Eden Prairie MN

International Classification:

A62B 23/02

US Classification:

12820529

Abstract:

A personal air filtration device and methods of using the same for providing a zone of filtered air proximate a breathing zone of a user are described. A blower provides an air flow to a head support which delivers the air flow to a zone proximate the users head. The air flow passes through a filter. The filter can be a point of delivery filter disposed about an air permeable surface of the head support. The delivered air flow can provide a laminar air flow defining a zone of filtered air about the user's breathing zone.