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Vividose®

Technology and IP

Issued patent. Registered trademark. Pathway still ahead.

Vividose® is intellectual property commercialized by Treble Innovations, LLC. The summary below is plain language from the patent disclosure. It is not the official text of the issued claims, and it is not legal advice.

Utility patent

US 11,071,828

Colored Seal System, Method, and Apparatus

Issued
July 27, 2021
Application
16/257,891, filed September 18, 2018
Priority
62/622,279, filed January 26, 2018
Inventors
Scott Carper; Brian D. Owens; Roland Clifford Park
Rights
Exclusive license to Treble Innovations, LLC to develop, manufacture, and sell the technology. Effective February 20, 2017.

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Trademark

Vividose®

U.S. Registration 6,455,942

Registered
August 17, 2021
Serial
87/611,162, filed September 16, 2017
Owner
Treble Innovations, LLC
Mark
Standard characters
Class 10
Medical instruments, including syringes, plungers, plunger seals, needles, and IV sets.
Class 17
Non-metal seals for plungers, syringes, and dosing equipment.
Counsel of record
Brian D. Owens

What the invention covers

Ordinary language, taken from the patent disclosure. Not a quotation of the issued claims, and not legal advice.

  1. 01

    A dosing system you can align by eye

    A barrel with measurement markings and fill indicators, and a colored seal that slides in the barrel. When the seal lines up with an indicator, the color is visible inside that indicator.

  2. 02

    Preferred form

    A fluorescent seal. A transparent or semi-transparent barrel. Black printed markings. Hollow shapes, such as circles, or pairs of lines, sized to the bevel of the seal.

  3. 03

    Devices and a method

    Syringe and other dosing-device forms, and a method: connect the system to a reservoir, retract the plunger, align the seal in a fill indicator, and deliver the agent.

Design patent

U.S. Design Patent D900,310, issued October 27, 2020, covers ornamental appearance in this family. Additional design applications were filed.

View design patent D900,310

Materials

Materials research has included the Mediprene 500M thermoplastic elastomer series, which is made for syringe plunger seals and can be compounded in color. Supplier literature for that raw material references USP Class VI and food-contact grades. That is not a finished-device certification. Biocompatibility, sterility, and packaging evaluation are part of the planned program.

The patent figures also show a manufacturing sequence: compound a colored material, mold the seals, mold the barrels, and print markings that include fill indicators, numbers, and lines. That is the sequence in the disclosure, not an announcement of a factory in operation.

Composite of patent figures showing plunger seal shapes, syringe views, fill-indicator alignment, a dosing method, and a manufacturing sequence.
Figures from the patent disclosure: seal geometry, syringe views, fill-indicator alignment, the dosing method, and a manufacturing sequence.

Regulatory status

Vividose is a medical device in development. Planning and budgeting have included FDA establishment registration and a 510(k) submission. No 510(k) clearance number exists in the company record used for this site, and no FDA approval is claimed. Do not read this website as clearance to market a finished device.

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