Patents by Inventor Ralf Steiner
Ralf Steiner 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: 10583531Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a body implant comprising the steps of: providing a wire; producing predetermined cuts of the cross section of the wire by means of an ultrashort pulse laser in order to produce a predetermined shape of the body implant. This method can be used to produce, for example, a body implant, an assembly consisting of a guide wire and a body implant, or a medical instrument having a guide wire.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Admedes Schuessler GmbHInventors: Nils-Agne Feth, Alexander Lange, Ralf Steiner
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Patent number: 10434605Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a body implant comprising the steps of: providing a wire; producing predetermined cuts of the cross section of the wire by means of an ultrashort pulse laser in order to produce a predetermined shape of the body implant. This method can be used to produce, for example, a body implant, an assembly consisting of a guide wire and a body implant, or a medical instrument having a guide wire.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: ADMEDES SCHUESSLER GMBHInventors: Nils-Agne Feth, Alexander Lange, Ralf Steiner
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Patent number: 10271970Abstract: A perfusion device and a delivery system for repair of a damaged portion of a body vessel. Perfusion device can include a tubular body that is self-expandable, having a proximal portion, a distal portion, and an intermediate portion. One or more series of barbs can be disposed circumferentially along the intermediate portion. Barbs are capable of penetrating into the tunica intima and tunica media of said vessel wall upon insertion of said device into said body vessel, and not into said tunica adventitia. A graft can be associated with the tubular body. Graft has a proximal end and a distal end, and preferably extends entirely along a luminal wall of the tubular body. Graft may also extend along an exterior surface of the tubular body at the proximal and distal portions. Delivery devices for the perfusion implant and methods of delivering the perfusion implant are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2013Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLCInventors: Ram H. Paul, Richard A. Swift, Oliver Bach, Ralf Steiner, Angela R. Barnett, Keith R. Milner
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Publication number: 20180012133Abstract: Method and system for behavior control of AI-based systems comprising at least one processor connected to a clock to measure time and to a memory, wherein said AI-based system is independently operable.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Ralf Steiner, Elke Unbehaun
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Publication number: 20170173738Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a body implant comprising the steps of: providing a wire; producing predetermined cuts of the cross section of the wire by means of an ultrashort pulse laser in order to produce a predetermined shape of the body implant. This method can be used to produce, for example, a body implant, an assembly consisting of a guide wire and a body implant, or a medical instrument having a guide wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Nils-Agne Feth, Alexander Lange, Ralf Steiner
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Patent number: 9192463Abstract: A perfusion device and a delivery system for repair of a damaged portion of a body vessel. Perfusion device can include a tubular body that is self-expandable, having a proximal portion, a distal portion, and an intermediate portion. One or more series of barbs can be disposed circumferentially along the intermediate portion. Barbs are capable of penetrating into the tunica intima and tunica media of said vessel wall upon insertion of said device into said body vessel, and not into said tunica adventitia. A graft can be associated with the tubular body. Graft has a proximal end and a distal end, and preferably extends entirely along a luminal wall of the tubular body. Graft may also extend along an exterior surface of the tubular body at the proximal and distal portions. A remodelable covering can be applied along the intermediate portion. Delivery devices for the perfusion implant and methods of delivering the perfusion implant are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2011Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies, LLCInventors: Ram H. Paul, Jr., Richard A. Swift, Oliver Bach, Ralf Steiner
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Publication number: 20150165558Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a body implant comprising the steps of: providing a wire; producing predetermined cuts of the cross section of the wire by means of an ultrashort pulse laser in order to produce a predetermined shape of the body implant. This method can be used to produce, for example, a body implant, an assembly consisting of a guide wire and a body implant, or a medical instrument having a guide wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: Admedes Schuessler GmbHInventors: Nils-Agne Feth, Alexander Lange, Ralf Steiner
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Publication number: 20130138202Abstract: A perfusion device and a delivery system for repair of a damaged portion of a body vessel. Perfusion device can include a tubular body that is self-expandable, having a proximal portion, a distal portion, and an intermediate portion. One or more series of barbs can be disposed circumferentially along the intermediate portion. Barbs are capable of penetrating into the tunica intima and tunica media of said vessel wall upon insertion of said device into said body vessel, and not into said tunica adventitia. A graft can be associated with the tubular body. Graft has a proximal end and a distal end, and preferably extends entirely along a luminal wall of the tubular body. Graft may also extend along an exterior surface of the tubular body at the proximal and distal portions. A remodelable covering can be applied along the intermediate portion. Delivery devices for the perfusion implant and methods of delivering the perfusion implant are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2013Publication date: May 30, 2013Inventors: Ram H. Paul, Richard A. Swift, Oliver Bach, Ralf Steiner, Angela R. Barnett, Keith R. Milner
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Publication number: 20120035708Abstract: A perfusion device and a delivery system for repair of a damaged portion of a body vessel. Perfusion device can include a tubular body that is self-expandable, having a proximal portion, a distal portion, and an intermediate portion. One or more series of barbs can be disposed circumferentially along the intermediate portion. Barbs are capable of penetrating into the tunica intima and tunica media of said vessel wall upon insertion of said device into said body vessel, and not into said tunica adventitia. A graft can be associated with the tubular body. Graft has a proximal end and a distal end, and preferably extends entirely along a luminal wall of the tubular body. Graft may also extend along an exterior surface of the tubular body at the proximal and distal portions. A remodelable covering can be applied along the intermediate portion. Delivery devices for the perfusion implant and methods of delivering the perfusion implant are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: Cook Medical Technologies, LLCInventors: Ram H. Paul, JR., Richard A. Swift, Oliver Bach, Ralf Steiner
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Patent number: 8096855Abstract: An accessory with a hub for mounting on rotary tool mandrels of different types is disclosed. In one embodiment, the rotary tool accessory includes a work portion and a hub portion operably connected to the work portion for rotating the work portion. The hub portion includes a first mandrel mounting portion on a first side of the hub portion for mounting with a first mandrel type and a second mandrel mounting portion on a second side of the hub portion for mounting with a second mandrel type, wherein the second mandrel type is different from the first mandrel type.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2009Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gavin Jerome, Ralf Steiner
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Patent number: 7988662Abstract: The invention relates to a spreader structure (10) for introducing into a hollow organ, comprising spreader rods (12), which radiate from a first connection section (14) essentially in the longitudinal direction (36) of the spreader structure (10) up to a second connection section (16), are distributed around the periphery of the spreader structure (10) and can be placed against a wall of a hollow organ by means of radial expansion. The aim of the invention is to provide a spreader structure (10), which is versatile and cost-effective to produce. To achieve this, the spreader rods (10) have at least one zone (22) running in the longitudinal direction, which has a reduced flexural strength in comparison to neighboring zones (20, 24). The invention also relates to the use of said spreader structure, to a spreader device and to a method for positioning a spreader structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2003Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Admedes Schuessler GmbHInventors: Erik Flaxmeier, Ralf Steiner, Wolfgang Müller
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Publication number: 20100054886Abstract: An accessory with a hub for mounting on rotary tool mandrels of different types is disclosed. In one embodiment, the rotary tool accessory includes a work portion and a hub portion operably connected to the work portion for rotating the work portion. The hub portion includes a first mandrel mounting portion on a first side of the hub portion for mounting with a first mandrel type and a second mandrel mounting portion on a second side of the hub portion for mounting with a second mandrel type, wherein the second mandrel type is different from the first mandrel type.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gavin Jerome, Ralf Steiner
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Patent number: 7614940Abstract: An accessory with a hub for mounting on rotary tool mandrels of different types is disclosed. In one embodiment, the rotary tool accessory includes a work portion and a hub portion operably connected to the work portion for rotating the work portion. The hub portion includes a first mandrel mounting portion on a first side of the hub portion for mounting with a first mandrel type and a second mandrel mounting portion on a second side of the hub portion for mounting with a second mandrel type, wherein the second mandrel type is different from the first mandrel type.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2006Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gavin Jerome, Ralf Steiner
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Publication number: 20070248429Abstract: An accessory with a hub for mounting on rotary tool mandrels of different types is disclosed. In one embodiment, the rotary tool accessory includes a work portion and a hub portion operably connected to the work portion for rotating the work portion. The hub portion includes a first mandrel mounting portion on a first side of the hub portion for mounting with a first mandrel type and a second mandrel mounting portion on a second side of the hub portion for mounting with a second mandrel type, wherein the second mandrel type is different from the first mandrel type.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2006Publication date: October 25, 2007Applicants: Credo Technology Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gavin Jerome, Ralf Steiner
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Patent number: 7092857Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a neural network for computer-assisted knowledge management, based on a neural network (1) that is formed by a computer in its memory location. The invention method and neural network are especially for use in a decentralized, computer-assisted patent system that can be used via the Internet system, in the broad sense. The neural network (1) forms a system of artificial intelligence (KI), covering a fundamental knowledge base in the form of computer-readable texts. The neural network (1) consists of elements (2) that are associated with each other and weighted in relation to each other so that the sets of knowledge available can be managed and analyzed in relation to each other by computer means.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2000Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
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Publication number: 20060129143Abstract: The invention relates to a spreader structure (10) for introducing into a hollow organ, comprising spreader rods (12), which radiate from a first connection section (14) essentially in the longitudinal direction (36) of the spreader structure (10) up to a second connection section (16), are distributed around the periphery of the spreader structure (10) and can be placed against a wall of a hollow organ by means of radial expansion. The aim of the invention is to provide a spreader structure (10), which is versatile and cost-effective to produce. To achieve this, the spreader rods (10) have at least one zone (22) running in the longitudinal direction, which has a reduced flexural strength in comparison to neighbouring zones (20, 24). The invention also relates to the use of said spreader structure, to a spreader device and to a method for positioning a spreader structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2003Publication date: June 15, 2006Inventors: Erik Flaxmeier, Ralf Steiner, Wolfgang Muller
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Publication number: 20050015138Abstract: A stent to be implanted in a living body with an essentially tube-shaped wall (12) made of material with low radio-opaqueness, which is designed through the shaping of openings (14) as flexible wall structure. In order to provide a stent (10) and a process for its manufacturing, which can be better recognized in case of research with x-radiation, a material (22) with high radio-opaqueness is inserted inside the flexible wall structure (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2004Publication date: January 20, 2005Inventors: Andreas Schuessler, Martin Stobel, Ralf Steiner, Erik Flaxmeier
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Publication number: 20040153056Abstract: A probe for thermoablation is provided with an insulating hose at whose distal end a metal electrode is provided whose spatial extent is changeable. The metal electrode is formed by flexible arms which are electrically connected to a terminal for the supply of a radio frequency current.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Applicants: Berchtold Holding GmbH, a German Corporation, Admedes Schuessler GmbH, a German CorporationInventors: Wolfgang Muller, Erik Flaxmeier, Ralf Steiner
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Patent number: 6311176Abstract: The computer-aided official management system for developments described in patents and publications, which limits the official examination work for each development and substantially supports development management, permits data to be organized in a classification system with low redundancy. The management system contains a multiplicity of development systems (1) which emerge from one another by means of set operations via orientated relationships (4), in that each development system (1) is linked to a database (11), which contains, in particular, the definition of the development system (1) serving as a reference system (2), the formulation and status of each individual relationship (4) forming the development system (1), as well as unique indicators to further data. The development systems are uniquely defined as intersection sets in the data structure for linking previously separately considered reference systems via the relationships (4).Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1998Date of Patent: October 30, 2001