Patents by Inventor Claudio Immekus
Claudio Immekus 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).
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Patent number: 10617340Abstract: The present invention includes a system for withdrawing body fluids. The system includes a drive unit having a plunger which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process and a lancing unit containing a lancet with a needle. The plunger and lancet are coupled together by a form fit in order to carry out a lancing process. The invention additionally concerns a method for temporarily extending a needle from a device for withdrawing body fluid as well as a lancing unit that can be attached to the drive unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Michael Fritz, Klaus-Dieter Sacherer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Publication number: 20180160957Abstract: The invention concerns lancets with a lancet needle, the tip of the lancet needle being embedded in an elastic material. Furthermore the invention concerns lancets where the tip of the lancet needle is surrounded by a hollow body which partially consists of an elastic material that can be pierced by the tip of the lancet needle during the lancing process and which reseals the tip of the lancet needle in the hollow body when it is retracted. In addition the invention concerns a lancet magazine in which the lancets are accommodated in individual chambers, each chamber having an opening through which the tip of the lancet needle can pass, which is sealed by an elastic material. Finally the invention concerns the use of an elastic material as a component of a lancet or a lancet magazine to maintain the sterility of at least the tip of a lancet needle in the unused state and to hygienically protect at least the tip of a lancet needle in the used state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Michael Fritz, Herbert Argauer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Publication number: 20180055431Abstract: The present invention includes a system for withdrawing body fluids. The system includes a drive unit having a plunger which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process and a lancing unit containing a lancet with a needle. The plunger and lancet are coupled together by a form fit in order to carry out a lancing process. The invention additionally concerns a method for temporarily extending a needle from a device for withdrawing body fluid as well as a lancing unit that can be attached to the drive unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicant: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Michael Fritz, Klaus-Dieter Sacherer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Patent number: 9901296Abstract: The invention concerns lancets with a lancet needle, the tip of the lancet needle being embedded in an elastic material. Furthermore the invention concerns lancets where the tip of the lancet needle is surrounded by a hollow body which partially consists of an elastic material that can be pierced by the tip of the lancet needle during the lancing process and which reseals the tip of the lancet needle in the hollow body when it is retracted. In addition the invention concerns a lancet magazine in which the lancets are accommodated in individual chambers, each chamber having an opening through which the tip of the lancet needle can pass, which is sealed by an elastic material. Finally the invention concerns the use of an elastic material as a component of a lancet or a lancet magazine to maintain the sterility of at least the tip of a lancet needle in the unused state and to hygienically protect at least the tip of a lancet needle in the used state.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Michael Fritz, Herbert Argauer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Patent number: 9839387Abstract: The present invention includes a system for withdrawing body fluids. The system includes a drive unit having a plunger which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process and a lancing unit containing a lancet with a needle. The plunger and lancet are coupled together by a form fit in order to carry out a lancing process. The invention additionally concerns a method for temporarily extending a needle from a device for withdrawing body fluid as well as a lancing unit that can be attached to the drive unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Michael Fritz, Klaus-Dieter Sacherer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Publication number: 20170035280Abstract: A stereoscopic endoscope system for concurrently imaging at both visible and NIR wavelengths includes an endoscope operable to transmit both visible and NIR wavelengths and a light source operable to generate visible light and NIR excitation light. An intensity of the visible light is independent of an intensity of the NIR excitation light. The stereoscopic endoscope system also includes a stereoscopic camera having a single image sensor operable to detect a left eye image or a right eye image at both visible and NIR wavelengths, a controller coupled to the light source and the stereoscopic camera, and a display device operable to be viewed using stereoscopic spectacles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Chunxin Yang, Xing Hui, Baiyu Wang, Claudio Immekus
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Patent number: 9547165Abstract: A method of operating an endoscopy system includes concurrently illuminating a tissue with NIR excitation light and visible light, imaging the tissue using a single detector, and independently adjusting an intensity of the NIR excitation light and an intensity of the visible light.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: REINROTH GMBHInventors: Chunxin Yang, Xing Hui, Baiyu Wang, Claudio Immekus
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Publication number: 20160062103Abstract: A method of operating an endoscopy system includes concurrently illuminating a tissue with NIR excitation light and visible light, imaging the tissue using a single detector, and independently adjusting an intensity of the NIR excitation light and an intensity of the visible light.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Chunxin Yang, Xing Hui, Baiyu Wang, Claudio Immekus
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Publication number: 20140135808Abstract: The present invention includes a system for withdrawing body fluids. The system includes a drive unit having a plunger which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process and a lancing unit containing a lancet with a needle. The plunger and lancet are coupled together by a form fit in order to carry out a lancing process. The invention additionally concerns a method for temporarily extending a needle from a device for withdrawing body fluid as well as a lancing unit that can be attached to the drive unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Michael Fritz, Klaus-Dieter Sacherer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Patent number: 8636758Abstract: The present invention includes a system for withdrawing body fluids. The system includes a drive unit having a plunger which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process and a lancing unit containing a lancet with a needle. The plunger and lancet are coupled together by a form fit in order to carry out a lancing process. The invention additionally concerns a method for temporarily extending a needle from a device for withdrawing body fluid as well as a lancing unit that can be attached to the drive unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Michael Fritz, Klaus-Dieter Sacherer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Publication number: 20120035505Abstract: The present invention includes a system for withdrawing body fluids. The system includes a drive unit having a plunger which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process and a lancing unit containing a lancet with a needle. The plunger and lancet are coupled together by a form fit in order to carry out a lancing process. The invention additionally concerns a method for temporarily extending a needle from a device for withdrawing body fluid as well as a lancing unit that can be attached to the drive unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventors: Michael Fritz, Klaus-Dieter Sacherer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Patent number: 8043317Abstract: The present invention includes a system for withdrawing body fluids. The system includes a drive unit having a plunger which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process and a lancing unit containing a lancet with a needle. The plunger and lancet are coupled together by a form fit in order to carry out a lancing process. The invention additionally concerns a method for temporarily extending a needle from a device for withdrawing body fluid as well as a lancing unit that can be attached to the drive unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2001Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Michael Fritz, Klaus-Dieter Sacherer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Publication number: 20090043325Abstract: The invention concerns lancets with a lancet needle, the tip of the lancet needle being embedded in an elastic material. Furthermore the invention concerns lancets where the tip of the lancet needle is surrounded by a hollow body which partially consists of an elastic material that can be pierced by the tip of the lancet needle during the lancing process and which reseals the tip of the lancet needle in the hollow body when it is retracted. In addition the invention concerns a lancet magazine in which the lancets are accommodated in individual chambers, each chamber having an opening through which the tip of the lancet needle can pass, which is sealed by an elastic material. Finally the invention concerns the use of an elastic material as a component of a lancet or a lancet magazine to maintain the sterility of at least the tip of a lancet needle in the unused state and to hygienically protect at least the tip of a lancet needle in the used state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventors: Michael Fritz, Herbert Argauer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Patent number: 7244266Abstract: Lancet system for pain-reduced blood withdrawal comprising an impulse generator which exerts an impulse on a body part in a sequence which is synchronized with the movement of a lancet. Method for the pain-reduced blood withdrawal in which an impulse is exerted on an adjacent body part in a sequence which is synchronized with the generation of an opening in the skin.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2003Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Claus-Dieter Garthe, Peter Ruschke, Guenther Schmelzeisen-Redeker, Claudio Immekus, Uschi Wolf, Klemens Masuch, Hans List
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Publication number: 20040034318Abstract: The present invention includes a system for withdrawing body fluids. The system includes a drive unit having a plunger which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process and a lancing unit containing a lancet with a needle. The plunger and lancet are coupled together by a form fit in order to carry out a lancing process. The invention additionally concerns a method for temporarily extending a needle from a device for withdrawing body fluid as well as a lancing unit that can be attached to the drive unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2003Publication date: February 19, 2004Inventors: Michael Fritz, Klaus-Dieter Sacherer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Publication number: 20030225429Abstract: Lancet system for pain-reduced blood withdrawal comprising an impulse generator which exerts an impulse on a body part in a sequence which is synchronized with the movement of a lancet. Method for the pain-reduced blood withdrawal in which an impulse is exerted on an adjacent body part in a sequence which is synchronized with the generation of an opening in the skin.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2003Publication date: December 4, 2003Inventors: Claus-Dieter Garthe, Peter Ruschke, Guenther Schmelzeisen-Redeker, Claudio Immekus, Uschi Wolf, Klemens Masuch, Hans List
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Patent number: 6616616Abstract: The invention concerns a lancet system comprising a plurality of essentially needle-shaped lancets, a drive unit which has a drive element which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process, a storage area to store the lancets, a withdrawal area to guide at least the tip of the lancet out of the system during the lancing process and a transport unit which can transport lancets from the storage area into the withdrawal area, wherein the drive element is arranged in such a manner that in the withdrawal area it can act on the lancet located there to carry out a lancing process and thus move the lancet from a resting position into a lancing position and wherein the system has a retraction device in the withdrawal area which can interact with the lancet located in the withdrawal area in order to move the lancet after completion of the lancing process from the lancing position into the resting position and it concerns a lancet magazine adapted to the system, a corType: GrantFiled: September 26, 2001Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Roche Diagnostics CorporationInventors: Michael Fritz, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Herbert Argauer, Claudio Immekus
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Publication number: 20030153939Abstract: The invention concerns lancets with a lancet needle, the tip of the lancet needle being embedded in an elastic material. Furthermore the invention concerns lancets where the tip of the lancet needle is surrounded by a hollow body which partially consists of an elastic material that can be pierced by the tip of the lancet needle during the lancing process and which reseals the tip of the lancet needle in the hollow body when it is retracted. In addition the invention concerns a lancet magazine in which the lancets are accommodated in individual chambers, each chamber having an opening through which the tip of the lancet needle can pass, which is sealed by an elastic material. Finally the invention concerns the use of an elastic material as a component of a lancet or a lancet magazine to maintain the sterility of at least the tip of a lancet needle in the unused state and to hygienically protect at least the tip of a lancet needle in the used state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2002Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventors: Michael Fritz, Herbert Argauer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Publication number: 20020120216Abstract: TOe invention concerns a lancet system comprising a plurality of essentially needle-shaped lancets, a drive unit which has a drive element which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process, a storage area to store the lancets, a withdrawal area to guide at least the tip of the lancet out of the system during the lancing process and a transport unit which can transport lancets from the storage area into the withdrawal area, wherein the drive element is arranged in such a manner that in the withdrawal area it can act on the lancet located there to carry out a lancing process and thus move the lancet from a resting position into a lancing position and wherein the system has a retraction device in the withdrawal area which can interact with the lancet located in the withdrawal area in order to move the lancet after completion of the lancing process from the lancing position into the resting position and it concerns a lancet magazine adapted to the system, a corType: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2001Publication date: August 29, 2002Inventors: Michael Fritz, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Herbert Argauer, Claudio Immekus
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Patent number: D629112Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Rudolf Medical GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Claudio Immekus