Patents by Inventor Cino Rossi

Cino Rossi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20090143649
    Abstract: A speculum for the electropharmacological treatment of vaginal diseases has a pair of elongated blades interconnected such that an opening adapted for observation and passage of instruments is defined between the blades. There is at least one electrode connected to one of the blades on an inner face of the blade. The electrode has a proximal insulated portion and a distal uninsulated portion. To treat vaginal diseases, the speculum is placed in a vagina so that the electrode is located proximate to the vaginal disease, and a drug solution is injected into the vagina. An electric current is then applied to the electrode, which causes the migration of the drug solution toward the vaginal disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventor: Cino Rossi
  • Publication number: 20080015573
    Abstract: The medical device, suitable for cutting and/or coagulating portions of human and animal tissues, comprises sheath means; cutting means slidingly insertable into said sheath means and defining a proximal extremity and an opposing distal extremity, said cutting means further comprising cannula means which have longitudinal passage means and administration means for administration of substances, placed on said distal extremity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventor: Cino Rossi
  • Publication number: 20050101909
    Abstract: Apparatus (1) for topical inoculation of pharmaceuticals comprises a tubular body (2), an inoculation needle (3) that can be inserted in said tubular body (2) in an axially guided sliding manner, at least one outlet opening (7) of a distal section of said inoculation needle (3) obtained in said tubular body (2), that is obtained laterally in said tubular body (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventor: Cino Rossi
  • Patent number: 5843016
    Abstract: A method of treating acute urinary outflow system obstruction caused by disease of the prostate gland by localised electromotive drug administration. The treatment comprises insertion within the prostatic urethra and within the bladder cavity of a urethral catheter which incorporates a specific electrode and is adapted to perform the electromotive administration of a drug or drug mixture into diseased prostatic tissues thereby resolving the pathologies without resorting to surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Physion S.r.L.
    Inventors: Franco Lugnani, Manfred Stohrer, Augustinus Kramer, Robert L. Stephen, Umberto Fontanella, Cino Rossi, Silvio Eruzzi
  • Patent number: 5779661
    Abstract: An intravesical method of treating dysfunctional bladder syndromes by Electromotive Drug Administration (EMDA) of local anaesthetic drugs, anti muscarinic drugs and sympathomimetic agents. The administration of said drugs combined with hydraulic bladder dilatation causes relaxation of the detrusor muscle, reversing the hypertonicity associated with dysfunctional bladder syndromes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Physion, S.r.l.
    Inventors: Robert L. Stephen, Manfred Stohrer, Umberto Fontanella, Donald P. Griffith, Franco Lugnani, Cino Rossi, Silvio Eruzzi
  • Patent number: 5607940
    Abstract: A morphine formulation for use by electromotive administration comprising morphine citrate salts of the formula:M.sub.np Ct.sub.(3-n)p (C.sub.6 H.sub.5 O.sub.7).sub.pwherein M is protonated morphine, Ct is a physiologically acceptable cation, n is an integer or fractional number greater than 0 and less than or equal to 3, and p is an integer from 1 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Inventors: Robert L. Stephen, Cesare Bonezzi, Cino Rossi, Silvio Eruzzi
  • Patent number: 5486160
    Abstract: Device for the combined electropharmacological treatment of the bladder and the prostatic urethra including a bougie comprising a flexible tubular body, openings for connection to the outside, an opening in its tip and elastic sealing elements arranged perimetrically around it, the bougie being internally provided with a stem-like electrode having two independent conductors, one shorter than the other, and suitable to perform a combined electropharmacological treatment of the bladder and of the prostatic urethra.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Physion S.r.l.
    Inventors: Cino Rossi, Silvio Eruzzi, Robert L. Stephen, Franco Lugnani
  • Patent number: 5401239
    Abstract: A method of treating recalcitrant indewelling catheter-associated infections including the following procedures: inserting into the lumen of the catheter, a primary electrode whose uninsulated distal section is of a spiral or filamentous configuration physically contacting the internal surface of the catheter; positioning and sealing a secondary electrode-receptacle on the skin area around the exit site of the catheter and around an external section of the catheter so as to form a conical container for holding liquids; infusion of a solution of antimicrobial drugs through the catheter; instilling a solution of antimicrobial drugs into the secondary electrode-receptacle; and applying a voltage differential between the primary and secondary electrodes, in which an electric field is applied to the internal and external surfaces of the catheter, and this field both disrupts hitherto priviledged sites for microorganisms on the surfaces of the catheter and drives antimicrobial drugs into these same surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Physion s.r.l.
    Inventors: Robert L. Stephen, Cino Rossi, Silvio Eruzzi
  • Patent number: 5301688
    Abstract: Intravesical electromotive administration of specified dye substances for localisation and treatment of occult bladder cancers, is disclosed. Innocuous dye substances will provide differential staining of cancerous and normal urothelium; and anticancer dye substances will demonstrate differential staining and also initiate therapy of cancerous lesions. The addition of vasodilating agents will accentuate the differential staining and further promote therapy of the cancerous sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Physion S.r.l.
    Inventors: Robert L. Stephen, Franco Lugnani, Cino Rossi, Silvio Eruzzi
  • Patent number: 5232441
    Abstract: A method of treating schistosomal infestations by both adult worms and eggs-miracidia, residing in the veins, venules and nearby tissues either of the bladder and ureters or of the colorectal regions of the intestines, including the locally administration by iontophoresis of at least an antischistosomal drug in the form of a solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Physion S.r.l.
    Inventors: Robert L. Stephen, Franco Lugnani, Cino Rossi, Silvio Eruzzi
  • Patent number: 5222936
    Abstract: A method of intracorporeal iontophoretic treatment of an internal hollow body organ containing a physiological ion-rich fluid environment by delivery to said hollow body organ of drug ions by means of an iontophoretic device inserted into said hollow body organ and comprising an active electrode which has the same polarity as the drug ions to be delivered. The method comprises direct measurement of the pH of said physiological fluid environment, whereby indirectly measuring its ionic composition and selecting accordingly the material of said active electrode so that it either can interact with ions contained in said physiological environment or allow the interaction of said environmental ions with water hydrolysis products so as to reduce the ionic species competitive with said drug ions during the iontophoretic process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Inventors: Robert L. Stephen, Franco Lugnani, Cino Rossi, Silvio Eruzzi