Robert Aaron Henson

US Patent:

8348674, Jan 8, 2013

Filed:

Aug 12, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/202764

Inventors:

Robert Aaron Henson - High Point NC, US

Assignee:

Educational Testing Service - Princeton NJ

International Classification:

G09B 7/00

US Classification:

434322, 434156, 434308, 434319, 434365, 273429

Abstract:

A method, system and computer-readable carrier for using a discrimination index to select test items from an item bank for a test are disclosed. At least one parameter may be identified for each of a plurality of test items in an item bank. A first test item may be selected from the item bank based on at least the parameter for the test item. Each unselected test item may be evaluated to determine whether one or more constraints would be satisfied if the test item were selected. A next test item may be selected from the unselected test items that satisfy the one or more first constraints based on at least the parameter for each test item. The Evaluation and test item selection processes may be repeated until one or more second constraints are satisfied.

US Patent:

20190321262, Oct 24, 2019

Filed:

Apr 22, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/390477

Inventors:

- New York NY, US
Amichai TREVES - Deerfield IL, US
Benjamin L. RUSH - Glenview IL, US
Jay Colton ZIGNEGO - Bahama NC, US
Robert William HENSON - Fuquay-Varina NC, US
Edward Paul BROWKA - Sherrill NY, US
David Lee FOSHEE - Apex NC, US
Theodore J. MOSLER - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

Hospira, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

A61J 1/20
A61J 1/14

Abstract:

A safety vial system has a vial adapter subsystem irreversibly mountable to the top of a vial containing a hazardous medicament and a vial base subsystem sealingly engaging a lower portion of the vial adapter subsystem and telescopically movable therein from a first position providing a path for gas sterilization around the vial to a second position wherein the path is closed to form a sterilized expandable, neutral pressure bellows chamber around and below the vial. The device has a removable top cap, a pierceable barrier film, a normally closed needleless valve in fluid communication with a dual lumen spike initially disposed above the film and a frangible product integrity ring holding the activation housing in place for sealed telescopic movement on a main body that surrounds the vial. The user pulls the product integrity ring and removes it, and then pushes the activation housing axially downward until it clicks to lock the device in the activated position wherein both lumens of the spike are in communication with the inside of the vial. The user removes the top cap on the activation housing assembly, and then uses a needleless syringe with an adapter thereon to add diluent and mixes if needed and withdraw drug from the vial via the valve.