Patents by Inventor Roland Benz

Roland Benz 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: 20240101657
    Abstract: The present invention relates to anti-VEGF/anti-IL-1beta antibodies and methods of using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: ROLAND BECKMANN, JOERG BENZ, STEFAN DENGL, CHRISTIAN GASSNER, GUIDO HARTMANN, PETER MICHAEL HUELSMANN, SABINE IMHOF-JUNG, KRISTIAN HOBOLT JENSEN, HUBERT KETTENBERGER, STEFAN LORENZ, JOERG MOELLEKEN, OLAF MUNDIGL
  • Patent number: 10495881
    Abstract: Eyeglasses have at least one partially transparent screen as an eyeglass lens and multiple optical recording apparatuses for recording images in a field of vision of a user of the eyeglasses. The recorded images can be processed further by a processing apparatus, in such a manner that a position of the eyeglasses relative to a patient can be determined, and, based on this position, a position of a planned implant in the jaw of a patient can be represented on the at least one partially transparent screen in the form of a marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: bredent medical GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Benz, Gerald Micko
  • Publication number: 20180299675
    Abstract: Eyeglasses have at least one partially transparent screen as an eyeglass lens and multiple optical recording apparatuses for recording images in a field of vision of a user of the eyeglasses. The recorded images can be processed further by a processing apparatus, in such a manner that a position of the eyeglasses relative to a patient can be determined, and, based on this position, a position of a planned implant in the jaw of a patient can be represented on the at least one partially transparent screen in the form of a marking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: bredent medical GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland BENZ, Gerald MICKO
  • Patent number: 9907629
    Abstract: A dental prosthetic arrangement and a dental prosthetic system include a combination of a lower part assigned to a jaw implant and an upper part assigned to a prosthesis body in a connection section, wherein in particular two bearing faces are produced in the connection section when in the connected state, the bearing faces being cylindrical, preferably circular-cylindrical in relation to a center axis and being spaced apart from each other in the axial direction. The axial extent of the cylindrical bearing faces is advantageously small compared to the axial extent of the connection section. The two cylindrical bearing faces are preferably situated in axially opposite end regions of the connection section and are connected to each other by approximately conical wall faces of a cut-out in the upper part and a projection of the lower part that projects into the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Bredent GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wilfried Boehm, Peter Brehm, Roland Benz
  • Patent number: 9301818
    Abstract: The invention relates to an angled abutment for a dental-prosthetic arrangement, in which the abutment is divided into a first sub-component and a second sub-component, wherein the first sub-component can be fixed by means of a fixing screw to an implant and has a tool opening through which a tool is able to engage to reach the screw head of the fixing screw. After the first sub-component has been fixed to an implant, the second sub-component can be connected to the first sub-component, preferably via a screwed connection, and at the same time completely covers the tool opening of the first sub-component. A retaining structure facing away from the first sub-component is formed on the second sub-component and interacts with a counter-retaining structure on a prosthesis to provide a releasable connection, which can be produced without tools, between the abutment and the prosthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Bredent GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Benz, Wilfried Boehm
  • Publication number: 20150351877
    Abstract: A dental prosthetic arrangement and a dental prosthetic system include a combination of a lower part assigned to a jaw implant and an upper part assigned to a prosthesis body in a connection section, wherein in particular two bearing faces are produced in the connection section when in the connected state, the bearing faces being cylindrical, preferably circular-cylindrical in relation to a center axis and being spaced apart from each other in the axial direction. The axial extent of the cylindrical bearing faces is advantageously small compared to the axial extent of the connection section. The two cylindrical bearing faces are preferably situated in axially opposite end regions of the connection section and are connected to each other by approximately conical wall faces of a cut-out in the upper part and a projection of the lower part that projects into the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: BREDENT GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wilfried BOEHM, Peter BREHM, Roland BENZ
  • Publication number: 20130209958
    Abstract: The invention relates to an angled abutment for a dental-prosthetic arrangement, in which the abutment is divided into a first sub-component and a second sub-component, wherein the first sub-component can be fixed by means of a fixing screw to an implant and has a tool opening through which a tool is able to engage to reach the screw head of the fixing screw. After the first sub-component has been fixed to an implant, the second sub-component can be connected to the first sub-component, preferably via a screwed connection, and at the same time completely covers the tool opening of the first sub-component. A retaining structure facing away from the first sub-component is formed on the second sub-component and interacts with a counter-retaining structure on a prosthesis to provide a releasable connection, which can be produced without tools, between the abutment and the prosthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: BREDENT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Roland Benz, Wilfried Boehm
  • Patent number: 8474675
    Abstract: A device for automatically controlling the edges of a web of sheeting has a first deflecting roller and a second deflecting roller, which are arranged parallel to each other, and also a drive for shifting the deflecting rollers in opposite axial directions. A sensor detects the position of the sheeting. The drive shifts the deflecting rollers in opposite axial directions and the ratio between the friction of the sheeting on the first deflecting roller and the friction of the sheeting on the second deflecting roller is changed on the basis of the position of the sheeting detected by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Haehnel, Werner Goetz, Roland Benz
  • Publication number: 20100249985
    Abstract: A device for automatically controlling the edges of a web of sheeting has a first deflecting roller and a second deflecting roller, which are arranged parallel to each other, and also a drive for shifting the deflecting rollers in opposite axial directions. A sensor detects the position of the sheeting. The drive shifts the deflecting rollers in opposite axial directions and the ratio between the friction of the sheeting on the first deflecting roller and the friction of the sheeting on the second deflecting roller is changed on the basis of the position of the sheeting detected by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: UHLMANN PAC-SYSTEME GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: BERND HAEHNEL, Werner Goetz, Roland Benz
  • Patent number: 4432501
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the continuous production and laying down of yarn loops, in which the yarn loops are introduced onto a lap body by a revolving lap flyer and are transferred from the lap body onto a belt conveyor. To ensure yarn is laid down onto the belt conveyor without stretching, so that it can be drawn off again from above from the conveyor without obstruction, the lap body is a rotationally symmetrical body rotating about its axis of symmetry, the axis of rotation of the lap body extends transversely both to the axis of rotation of the lap flyer and to the running direction of the belt conveyor, and the lap body is driven so that its direction of rotation where it faces the belt conveyor is the same as the running direction of the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: Lucke Apparate-Bau GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Arendt, Roland Benz, Reinhold Engenhart, Viktor Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4383655
    Abstract: A yarn storage device has a plurality of vertically extending screw spindles spaced around a circle. The lower ends of the spindles are received in a bearing plate and are coupled to drive means for rotating each spindle about its own axis. A lap flyer is rotatable around said spindles by said drive means for applying loops of yarn around said spindles. An upwardly conically tapering drum is arranged concentrically to and within said circle such that the loops of yarn are transferred from the free upper ends of said spindles onto said drum and are pushed upwardly along the surface of the drum by subsequent loops. Yarn drawn off from the upper end of the drum has a substantially constant tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1983
    Assignee: Lucke Apparate-Bau GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Ahrendt, Roland Benz, Reinhold Engenhart, Viktor Schmidt