Patents Assigned to Neuroloop GmbH
  • Patent number: 11850419
    Abstract: An implantable electrode arrangement provides spatially-selective detection of neuronal electrical signals, which propagate along at least one nerve fiber contained in a nerve fascicle, and for selective electrical stimulation of the at least one nerve fiber, comprising a biocompatible carrier substrate, which has at least one carrier substrate region that can be placed around the nerve fascicle in a cuff and has a straight cylinder-shaped carrier substrate surface which faces the nerve fascicle in the implanted state. The carrier substrate surface has an axial extension and an extension oriented circumferentially in a direction and a first electrode arrangement attached thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NEUROLOOP GMBH
    Inventors: Dennis Plachta, Mortimer Giehrtmuehlen, Thomas Stieglitz, Josef Zentner
  • Patent number: 11815543
    Abstract: The invention is an assembly for checking the functionality of a measuring object, that is a DUT, in a medical implant or at least one part of the medical implant. The assembly comprises a test signal generator, a test module that is connected to the test signal generator. The assembly has a first receiving structure with at least one contact electrode, into which an adapter rigidly connects to the DUT in a releasable manner which is inserted to form least one electrical contact. A control and analysis unit is connected to the test signal generator and to the test module in a wired or wireless manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEUROLOOP GMBH
    Inventors: Fabian Kimmig, Tim Boretius, Daniel Kempter, Janosch Dobler, Christian Goslich
  • Patent number: 11813061
    Abstract: The invention relates to an implantable electric multi-pole connection between an electric implant and an electric feed and discharge structure. The invention is characterised in that a flexible, film-like, electrically non-conductive, strip-shaped surface element is arranged between the implant and the feed and discharge structure. The surface element comprises at least one first surface, on which a number of electrodes n greater than of equal to two is arranged, which are respectively connected to the electric implant by means of electric connection conductors extending at least in parts inside the surface element. The electric feed and discharge structure comprises at least n lines which are electrically insulated from each other and which are electrically connected to one of the n electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEUROLOOP GMBH
    Inventors: Fabian Kimmig, Tim Boretius, Dennis Plachta
  • Patent number: 11712558
    Abstract: The invention is a medical implant which is a wrap-around cuff comprising a flexible, biocompatible, film carrier substrate, that has a carrier substrate region which is wrapped around a wrap axis to form a tube. The invention has a protective structure directly or indirectly attached to the carrier substrate, which can be transformed from a first, open state into a second closed state that encloses the carrier substrate region that is wrapped to form a tube at least axially around a wrapping axis extending in the peripheral direction of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NEUROLOOP GMBH
    Inventors: Dennis Plachta, Fabian Kimmig, Tim Boretius
  • Patent number: 11691004
    Abstract: A device for the extravasal or extraneuronal fastening of a medical implant has a biocompatible surface substrate including a first substrate portion which is a compression sleeve and a free end portion. By winding the first substrate portion about a spatial axis, the axis is loosely radially covered in at least one layer by the wound first substrate portion. A second substrate portion, which is attached integrally to the first substrate portion which is not wound about the spatial axis, has a connection extending away from the medical implant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: NEUROLOOP GMBH
    Inventors: Dennis Plachta, Tim Boretius, Fabian Kimmig, Christina Hassler
  • Patent number: 11541230
    Abstract: The invention is an implantable electrical connection between an electrical implant which has at least one electrical conductor and at least one electrical feed line. The invention further relates to a method for producing an implantable electrical connection between an electrical implant. The invention comprises at least one electrical cable having a cable end, to which an electrically conductive flat piece is unsupportedly fined, and that the at least one implant-side electrical conductor is joined to the flat piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NEUROLOOP GMBH
    Inventors: Dennis Plachta, Fabian Kimmig, Tim Boretius
  • Patent number: 11478635
    Abstract: The invention has a contact assembly including a spatial longitudinal extension which is orientated parallel to the winding axis. The contact assembly is fixedly joined to the carrier substrate along a joining region which has a joining region length orientated in parallel to the winding axis. The orthogonal projection relative to the winding axis overlaps with a first region of the carrier substrate which is wound into a tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NEUROLOOP GMBH
    Inventors: Tim Boretius, Dennis Plachta, Fabian Kimmig
  • Patent number: 11471690
    Abstract: A method for producing a head part of an implantable medical device is described, with a head part housing, which has a recess in the form of a blind hole, along which at least one electrically conducting contact ring element, together with an electrically insulating, elastically deformable sealing ring, are joined together in a force fit in a coaxial arrangement and an axial serial sequence under an axial joining force. The method is characterized in that the generation of the joining force between the at least one contact ring element and the sealing ring is executed along the assembly tool by use of means of attachment fitted on both sides of the at least one contact ring element and the sealing ring along the assembly tool, of which at least one means of attachment is axially movably and detachably fixed in an axially secure manner to the assembly tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NEUROLOOP GMBH
    Inventors: Fabian Kimmig, Tim Boretius
  • Patent number: 11247042
    Abstract: An implantable electrical contact arrangement is described which has at least one electrode body arrangement composed otherwise entirely of biocompatible, electrically insulating material, with at least one freely accessible electrode surface enclosed directly or indirectly by the biocompatible electrically insulating material. The invention is characterized in that the electrode body arrangement has a stack-shaped layer composite which provides at least one gold layer connected to an iridium layer via a diffusion barrier layer. The stack-shaped layer composite by being completely encapsulated by an SiC layer, with the exception of at least one surface region of the iridium layer facing to be directed away from the layer composite. The SiC layer has an SiC layer surface which is facing to be directed away from the stack-shaped layer composite and which is adjoined directly or indirectly by the biocompatible, electrically insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEUROLOOP GMBH
    Inventors: Tim Boretius, Fabian Kimmig, Christina Sebastian Hassler, Dennis Plachta
  • Patent number: 11224749
    Abstract: An implantable assembly is described for acquisition of neuronal electrical signals at a selected location which propagate along at least one nerve fiber contained in a nerve fiber bundle, as well as for selective electrical stimulation of the at least one nerve fiber, having: an implantable electrode assembly (E) which is disposed on a biocompatible support substrate which can be positioned around the nerve fiber bundle in a cuff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: NEUROLOOP GMBH
    Inventors: Dennis Plachta, Mortimer Giehrtmuehlen, Thomas Stieglitz, Josef Zentner
  • Patent number: 11123000
    Abstract: A biocompatible recording system includes a number of input channels for acquiring electronic information from the neural system of a living being. The recording system includes a preamplifier and further amplifier stages. An input of a second amplifier stage is coupled to an output of the preamplifier. A low-pass filter having a capacitance multiplier is connected to the second amplifier stage. The preamplifier of the recording system is designed using P-MOS technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NEUROLOOP GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Kuhl, Yiannos Manoli, Dennis Plachta, Thomas Stieglitz, Oscar Cota
  • Patent number: 10693257
    Abstract: An implantable electromechanical plug connector is described with a plug part and a socket part, of which the plug part has at least one joining portion which can be inserted completely into a unilaterally open insertion opening within the socket part and has at least one electrically insulating surface having at least one electrode body (6) with a freely accessible electrode surface, and of which the socket part has, inside the unilaterally open insertion opening, an electrically insulating wall portion which laterally delimits the insertion opening at least in part and whose surface makes available at least one counterelectrode body with a freely accessible counterelectrode surface, wherein the electrically insulating wall portion of the electrically insulating surface of the joining portion of the plug part, in the state of complete insertion of the plug part's joining portion in the insertion opening, is oriented in such a way that the counterelectrode surface touches the electrode surface, wherein the at
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Neuroloop GmbH
    Inventors: Fabian Kimmig, Tim Boretius
  • Patent number: 10569085
    Abstract: The invention is an implantable electrode configuration having a carrier substrate of a biocompatible polymer in at least some areas and a freely accessible electrode surface applied to the carrier substrate or integrated into the carrier substrate on the carrier substrate surface in at least some areas is described and a method for producing the implantable electrode configuration. The electrode has a metallic base plate having a planar top side and bottom side, including at least one structural element protruding orthogonally from the top side. The planar surface of the metallic base plate is oriented parallel to the carrier substrate surface and the metallic base plate is enclosed by the biocompatible polymer, except for a first surface area of the at least one structural element which faces the carrier substrate surface and is the freely accessible electrode surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Neuroloop GmbH
    Inventors: Dennis Plachta, Mortimer Giehrtmuehlen, Thomas Stieglitz, Josef Zentner
  • Patent number: 10556111
    Abstract: An implantable assembly is described for acquisition of neuronal electrical signals at a selected location which propagate along at least one nerve fiber contained in a nerve fiber bundle, as well as for selective electrical stimulation of the at least one nerve fiber, having: an implantable electrode assembly (E) which is disposed on a biocompatible support substrate which can be positioned around the nerve fiber bundle in a cuff, which has a cylindrical support substrate surface (i) which in the implanted condition is orientated facing the nerve fiber bundle, on which a first electrode assembly for locationally selective acquisition of the neuronal electrical signals and selective electrical stimulation of the at least one nerve fiber, and on which a second electrode assembly is disposed to record an ECG signal, and an analysis and control unit (A/S) which can be electrically conductively connected or is connected to the implantable electrode assembly (E), in which the locationally selective acquired neuron
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Neuroloop GmbH
    Inventors: Dennis Plachta, Mortimer Giehrtmuehlen, Thomas Stieglitz, Josef Zentner
  • Patent number: D983135
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: NEUROLOOP GMBH
    Inventors: Stuart Karten, KC Cho, Christian Denhart
  • Patent number: D994127
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Neuroloop GmbH
    Inventors: Stuart Karten, Christian Denhart, KC Cho