Patents by Inventor Martin Horn
Martin Horn 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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Publication number: 20240108868Abstract: An implant with which prostates of different sizes can be treated is achieved by the fact that the length of a deployed implant is modifiable to a variable extent. Through the change of length of a stretched-out wire structure of the implant, the implant can be adapted individually to the patient anatomy and the outcome of treatment can thus be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Christian BROCKMANN, Martin HORN
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Publication number: 20240094353Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system, which comprises: a distance measuring unit configured to emit a plurality of first pulses towards an object located in a field of view (FOV), wherein the object is associated with one or more markers; and a detector configured to receive at least one second pulse from the one or more markers of the object, wherein each of the at least one second pulse indicates object information identifying the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Ricardo Ferreira, Stefan Hadrath, Peter Hoehmann, Herbert Kaestle, Florian Kolb, Norbert Magg, Jiye Park, Tobias Schmidt, Martin Schnarrenberger, Norbert Haas, Helmut Horn, Bernhard Siessegger, Guido Angenendt, Charles Braquet, Gerhard Maierbacher, Oliver Neitzke, Sergey Khrushchev
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Publication number: 20240008918Abstract: An electrode instrument and a resectoscope, wherein a cross section of the at least one electrode carrier is locally enlarged between the distal end of the electrode carrier and a guide element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Martin HORN, Christian BROCKMANN
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Publication number: 20230301702Abstract: An electrosurgical generator for operating an electrosurgical instrument, wherein the electrosurgical generator includes a data storage device coupled to the control device for storing a warning time and a switch-off time, the warning and switch-off time each being assigned to a detected instrument in order to assign an instrument-specific warning and switch-off time to each detected instrument, a time tracking device for determining an instrument-specific activation duration, wherein the activation duration is a duration of time detected from a first connection or first activation of an electrosurgical instrument connected to the instrument terminal to an actual time value, and wherein an activation duration is detected for each detected instrument, and the activation duration is recorded continuously and independently of the electrosurgical instrument operating state, and the control device triggers warning indication by triggering the signaling device when the determined activation duration exceeds the insType: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Fabian JANICH, Anne KWIK, Jens KRÜGER, Martin HORN
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Publication number: 20230139522Abstract: High-frequency electrodes for handheld surgical devices are used above all in urology in electrosurgical work in the bladder, prostate, and urethra. These electrodes are known to be manufactured from a platinum-iridium alloy. The costs of these materials have proven to be particularly disadvantageous. A high-frequency electrode, an electrode instrument, and a resectoscope for which the production costs are reduced and the reliability of the electrode during the treatment is ensured. This is achieved in that the high-frequency electrode consists of a platinum-tungsten alloy, in particular is produced therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Christoph KNOPF, Christian BROCKMANN, Jiri LAVICKA, Martin HORN
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Publication number: 20230011205Abstract: An electrosurgical handheld device and also a contact body for an electrosurgical handheld device, with which both the required cleanliness and the necessary safety can be obtained. This is achieved by the fact that a contact body for an electrosurgical handheld device for receiving an optical guide and for coupling at least one electrical contact of an electrode instrument of the handheld device has an RF cable, which is fixedly connected to the contact body. By way of this RF cable, an RF voltage can be applied to the electrode instrument via the at least one electrical contact. The other end of the RF cable can be connectable to an RF generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Martin HORN, Christian BROCKMANN
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Publication number: 20220122731Abstract: Systems and methods for generating and delivering personalized healthcare insights are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes determining, with a processor, healthcare insights based on a knowledge graph constructed from data from a heterogeneous plurality of data sources, generating, with the processor and a machine learning model, a plurality of healthcare recommendations for a user based on the healthcare insights, selecting, with the processor, at least one healthcare recommendation from the plurality of healthcare recommendations based on user behavior, and outputting, to a user device for display to the user, the at least one healthcare recommendation. In this way, a large number of healthcare insights and recommendations may be determined for users, but only a subset of such healthcare insights and recommendations may be selectively provided to and personalized for users.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Lin Chen, Xiang Li, Mao Li, Sabin Kafle, Martin Horn
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Publication number: 20220059228Abstract: Systems and methods for healthcare insights with knowledge graphs are provided. In one example, a method includes constructing, with a processor, a knowledge graph with data from a heterogeneous plurality of data sources, generating, with the processor, healthcare insights from the knowledge graph, and outputting, to a user device for display to a user, a healthcare recommendation based on the healthcare insights. In this way, various types of data may be used to efficiently provide personalized healthcare recommendations for users.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Lin Chen, Xiang Li, Mao Li, Sabin Kafle, Martin Horn
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Publication number: 20210244463Abstract: An assembly aid tool for positioning a work instrument in a resectoscope for endoscopic surgery, wherein the assembly aid tool has a grip part in its distal end region, one or more holding elements for retention of a work instrument, and/or bearing faces, in its proximal end region, for supporting a work instrument. In addition, assembly aid systems and resectoscopes include such an assembly aid tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Martin HORN, Hannes MIERSCH, Christian BROCKMANN
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Patent number: 10515729Abstract: An insulated solution injector may include an outer tube and an inner tube arranged within the outer tube. The outer tube and the inner tube may define an annular space therebetween, and the inner tube may define a solution space within. The annular space may be configured so as to insulate the solution within the solution space. As a result, the solution may be kept to a temperature below its decomposition temperature prior to injection. Accordingly, the decomposition of the solution and the resulting deposition of its constituents within the solution space may be reduced or prevented, thereby decreasing or precluding the occurrence of a blockage.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLCInventors: Ronald Martin Horn, Peter Louis Andresen, Russell Seeman
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Publication number: 20180223410Abstract: A method for applying a coating to a defect area of a reactor component includes forming a patch on the reactor component at the defect area using a plasma-spray coating process. The plasma-spray coating process includes grounding the reactor component and a power supply of a plasma gun to a common ground such that a potential difference exists between the reactor component and a cathode of the plasma gun, and concurrently directing an ion-etching stream and a coating stream towards the region of the reactor component using the plasma gun while maintaining a desired distance between the plasma gun and the region of the reactor component. The directing the ion-etching stream includes heating the region of the reactor component using a plasma stream exiting a spray nozzle of the plasma gun. The coating stream includes droplets of a coating material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLCInventors: Henry Peter OFFER, David Jonathan KECK, Ronald Martin HORN
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Patent number: 10041163Abstract: A method for applying a coating to a defect area of a reactor component includes forming a patch on the reactor component at the defect area using a plasma-spray coating process. The plasma-spray coating process includes grounding the reactor component and a power supply of a plasma gun to a common ground such that a potential difference exists between the reactor component and a cathode of the plasma gun, and concurrently directing an ion-etching stream and a coating stream towards the region of the reactor component using the plasma gun while maintaining a desired distance between the plasma gun and the region of the reactor component. The directing the ion-etching stream includes heating the region of the reactor component using a plasma stream exiting a spray nozzle of the plasma gun. The coating stream includes droplets of a coating material.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: GE-HITACHI NUCLEAR ENERGY AMERICAS LLCInventors: Henry Peter Offer, David Jonathan Keck, Ronald Martin Horn
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Publication number: 20170125131Abstract: An insulated solution injector may include an outer tube and an inner tube arranged within the outer tube. The outer tube and the inner tube may define an annular space therebetween, and the inner tube may define a solution space within. The annular space may be configured so as to insulate the solution within the solution space. As a result, the solution may be kept to a temperature below its decomposition temperature prior to injection. Accordingly, the decomposition of the solution and the resulting deposition of its constituents within the solution space may be reduced or prevented, thereby decreasing or precluding the occurrence of a blockage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Applicant: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLCInventors: Ronald Martin HORN, Peter Louis ANDRESEN, Russell SEEMAN
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Patent number: 8632748Abstract: Compositions of high specific activity 117mSn with specific activity of greater than 100 Ci/g Sn and methods of producing the same. The method includes exposing 116Cd to an ?-particle beam of sufficient incident kinetic energy and duration to convert a portion of the 116Cd to 117mSn to form an irradiated material. The irradiated material is dissolved to form an intermediate solution containing 117mSn and 116Cd. The 117mSn is separated from the 116Cd to yield high specific activity 117mSn.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Clear Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Nigel Raymond Stevenson, Ian Martin Horn
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Patent number: 8614100Abstract: A method for depositing samples, in which at least one sample (10) is arranged on a substrate (30), comprises the following steps: positioning a sample dispenser (20) above the substrate (30), and actuating the sample dispenser (20) so that the sample (10) is moved from the sample dispenser (20) along a trajectory (11) to a predefined deposition position (32) on the substrate (30), wherein at least part of the trajectory (11) is shielded against electrical interference fields. Also described is a substrate (30) for receiving samples (10), comprising a substrate body (31), on the surface of which at least one deposition position (32) is provided, and a shielding electrode (40), which is designed so as to electrostatically shield the space above the at least one deposition position (32) against electrical interference fields.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2004Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Scienion AGInventors: Eckhard Nordhoff, Alan Bullock, Christine Lubbert, Antonin Schenk, Holger Eickhoff, Martin Horn
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Publication number: 20120321558Abstract: Compositions of high specific activity 117mSn with specific activity of greater than 100 Ci/g Sn and methods of producing the same. The method includes exposing 116Cd to an ?-particle beam of sufficient incident kinetic energy and duration to convert a portion of the 116Cd to 117mSn to form an irradiated material. The irradiated material is dissolved to form an intermediate solution containing 117mSn and 116Cd. The 117mSn is separated from the 116Cd to yield high specific activity 117mSn.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: CLEAR VASCULAR, INC.Inventors: Nigel Raymond Stevenson, Ian Martin Horn
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Patent number: 8257681Abstract: Compositions of high specific activity 117mSn with specific activity of greater than 100 Ci/g Sn and methods of producing the same. The method includes exposing 116Cd to an ?-particle beam of sufficient incident kinetic energy and duration to convert a portion of the 116Cd to 117mSn to form an irradiated material. The irradiated material is dissolved to form an intermediate solution containing 117mSn and 116Cd. The 117mSn is separated from the 116Cd to yield high specific activity 117mSn.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Clear Vascular Inc.Inventors: Nigel Raymond Stevenson, Ian Martin Horn
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Publication number: 20120101008Abstract: A method for depositing samples, in which at least one sample (10) is arranged on a substrate (30), comprises the following steps: positioning a sample dispenser (20) above the substrate (30), and actuating the sample dispenser (20) so that the sample (10) is moved from the sample dispenser (20) along a trajectory (11) to a predefined deposition position (32) on the substrate (30), wherein at least part of the trajectory (11) is shielded against electrical interference fields. Also described is a substrate (30) for receiving samples (10), comprising a substrate body (31), on the surface of which at least one deposition position (32) is provided, and a shielding electrode (40), which is designed so as to electrostatically shield the space above the at least one deposition position (32) against electrical interference fields.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2004Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventors: Eckhard Nordhoff, Alan Bullock, Christine Lubbert, Antonin Schenk, Holger Eickhoff, Martin Horn
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Publication number: 20100166653Abstract: Compositions of high specific activity 117mSn with specific activity of greater than 100 Ci/g Sn and methods of producing the same. The method includes exposing 116Cd to an ?-particle beam of sufficient incident kinetic energy and duration to convert a portion of the 116Cd to 117mSn to form an irradiated material. The irradiated material is dissolved to form an intermediate solution containing 117mSn and 116Cd. The 117mSn is separated from the 116Cd to yield high specific activity 117mSn.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2008Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: CLEAR VASCULAR, INC.Inventors: Nigel Raymond Stevenson, Ian Martin Horn
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Patent number: 7031779Abstract: A method of predicting component crack behavior in a nuclear reactor provides access to a crack growth behavior model over a global network. A user inputs water chemistry and material characteristics of a particular nuclear reactor and can perform crack growth rate predictions by accessing the behavior model over the computer network. A crack growth prediction profile or crack growth based result is output over the network according to an analysis by the behavior model.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2000Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ronald Martin Horn, F. Peter Ford, Peter L. Andersen, Jenny Y. Mui