Patents by Inventor Armin Wellhoefer

Armin Wellhoefer 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).

  • Patent number: 10828506
    Abstract: A crosslinking control system, the use of the crosslinking control system, a laser system comprising the crosslinking control system, a crosslinking control method and a method for laser treatment are provided. The crosslinking control system comprises a photosensitizer providing unit, a light source configured to provide light having a wavelength suitable to activate the photosensitizer introduced into or applied onto the tissue for crosslinking, and a control computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Christof Donitzky, Armin Wellhoefer
  • Patent number: 10459624
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a touchscreen and a control device for executing an operating command which is input on the user side via the touchscreen. The control device is adapted to control the touchscreen such that, in order to prompt a command input, a first graphic element marking a touching starting location and a destination graphic arrangement having at least one second graphic element at a distance from the first graphic element are displayed on the touchscreen. The control device is further adapted to recognise a command input depending detecting a first movement of at least one object over the touchscreen starting from the touching starting location continuously up to a second graphic element of the destination graphic arrangement and on reaching this second graphic element a movement stoppage of the object, followed by a follow-up action of the object on the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventors: Armin Wellhöfer, Tobias Jeglorz
  • Patent number: 10363170
    Abstract: An apparatus for corneal crosslinking, the use of the apparatus for corneal crosslinking, and a method for corneal crosslinking are provided. The apparatus comprises a source of laser radiation; a scanner device for scanning the laser radiation; and a control computer for controlling the scanner device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Katrin Skerl, Armin Wellhöfer, Christof Donitzky
  • Patent number: 9861275
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for cutting or ablating corneal tissue of an eye provide for detection of electromagnetic radiation exiting the eye. A detector is provided and coupled to a computer controlling the cutting or ablating laser radiation so that a two- or three-dimensional image of radiation exiting the eye can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Wavelight GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Wellhoefer
  • Patent number: 9855168
    Abstract: A nozzle unit for cross-linking of eye tissue is disclosed. The nozzle unit comprises a dosing device for providing a predefined dose of a photosensitizer, a pressure-generating device for generating a pressure in the dosing device, and an outlet nozzle for discharging the dose of the photosensitizer, in a puff-type manner and in the form of at least one stream or stream bundle, through an outlet opening of the outlet nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Wavelight GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Wellhoefer
  • Patent number: 9610197
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes a resting member configured to provide rest for a human patient, and an ophthalmic device configured to perform one or more procedures with respect to an eye of the patient resting on the resting member, where the one or more procedures include at least one of an eye-surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic procedure. The apparatus also includes a user interface device configured to receive log-in data from a user, and a controller configured to access stored user profile data based on the log-in data and configure one or more configurable components of the apparatus in accordance with the accessed user profile data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Wavelight GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Wellhöfer
  • Publication number: 20160236006
    Abstract: A crosslinking control system, the use of the crosslinking control system, a laser system comprising the crosslinking control system, a crosslinking control method and a method for laser treatment are provided. The crosslinking control system comprises a photosensitizer providing unit, a light source configured to provide light having a wavelength suitable to activate the photosensitizer introduced into or applied onto the tissue for crosslinking, and a control computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Christof Donitzky, Armin Wellhoefer
  • Publication number: 20160135989
    Abstract: A nozzle unit for cross-linking of eye tissue is disclosed. The nozzle unit comprises a dosing device for providing a predefined dose of a photosensitizer, a pressure-generating device for generating a pressure in the dosing device, and an outlet nozzle for discharging the dose of the photosensitizer, in a puff-type manner and in the form of at least one stream or stream bundle, through an outlet opening of the outlet nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventor: Armin Wellhoefer
  • Patent number: 9301876
    Abstract: A system for surgical treatment of an eye includes a laser arrangement that is adapted to emit light with a wavelength and repetition-rate suitable for surgical treatment of the eye. The system further includes a temperature-registration device that is adapted to register the temperature of an object that is to be subjected to the light of the laser arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Wavelight GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Wellhöfer, Christof Donitzky
  • Publication number: 20160092099
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a touchscreen and a control device for executing an operating command which is input on the user side via the touchscreen. The control device is adapted to control the touchscreen such that, in order to prompt a command input, a first graphic element marking a touching starting location and a destination graphic arrangement having at least one second graphic element at a distance from the first graphic element are displayed on the touchscreen. The control device is further adapted to recognise a command input depending detecting a first movement of at least one object over the touchscreen starting from the touching starting location continuously up to a second graphic element of the destination graphic arrangement and on reaching this second graphic element a movement stoppage of the object, followed by a follow-up action of the object on the touchscreen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Armin Wellhöfer, Tobias Jeglorz
  • Publication number: 20160081755
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes a resting member configured to provide rest for a human patient, and an ophthalmic device configured to perform one or more procedures with respect to an eye of the patient resting on the resting member, where the one or more procedures include at least one of an eye-surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic procedure. The apparatus also includes a user interface device configured to receive log-in data from a user, and a controller configured to access stored user profile data based on the log-in data and configure one or more configurable components of the apparatus in accordance with the accessed user profile data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventor: Armin Wellhöfer
  • Publication number: 20150313756
    Abstract: An apparatus for corneal crosslinking, the use of the apparatus for corneal crosslinking, and a method for corneal crosslinking are provided. The apparatus comprises a source of laser radiation; a scanner device for scanning the laser radiation; and a control computer for controlling the scanner device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Katrin SKERL, Armin WELLHOEFER, Christof DONITZKY
  • Publication number: 20150290031
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus for laser eye surgery comprising a command recognition unit configured for detecting and recognizing a gesture command and/or voice command of an operator of the ophthalmic apparatus, at least one controlled unit configured for receiving a control signal and configured for changing a state based on the received control signal, and a controller configured for generating a control signal and transmitting the control signal to the at least one controlled unit based on the recognized gesture command and/or voice command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: Wavelight GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Wellhoefer
  • Publication number: 20140364744
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for cutting or ablating corneal tissue of an eye provide for detection of electromagnetic radiation exiting the eye. A detector is provided and coupled to a computer controlling the cutting or ablating laser radiation so that a two- or three-dimensional image of radiation exiting the eye can be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: WAVELIGHT GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Wellhoefer
  • Patent number: 8823488
    Abstract: A medical device comprises a device adapted to perform a medical procedure; a biometric information sensing device adapted to sense biometric information of a user; a controller adapted to retrieve stored biometric registration information of a user from a storage device in communication with the controller, to determine an identity of the user by comparing the stored biometric registration information and the sensed biometric information, and to prevent performance of the medical procedure if the sensed biometric information does not correspond to the stored biometric registration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Wavelight AG
    Inventors: Armin Wellhoefer, Christof Donitzky
  • Publication number: 20130296834
    Abstract: A device for laser-aided eye surgery comprising a patient table, as well as at least one laser system with a laser treatment head for emission of a focused laser beam onto an eye of a patient to be treated on the table. The laser system comprises an operation microscope with a viewing beam path running collinear to the laser beam path at least in the area of the emission location of the laser beam. According to the invention, the device is characterized by at least a first camera to create an image at least comprising the area from the mouth to the forehead of a patient lying on a table, as well as by a display device to display the picture taken. As an alternative to, or in addition to, the first camera and the display device, the eye-surgery device can comprise a laser projector for projection of a laser light pattern onto the patient's body as well as a guiding computer controlling the projector with an image signal output to which an image signal input of the projector is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: WaveLight GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Wellhöfer, Christof Donitzky, Johannes Krause
  • Publication number: 20130110094
    Abstract: A patient transfer arrangement includes a movable substructure and a carrier member that is connected to the substructure and that is adapted to receive a patient in a sitting or lying position. A connecting device is detachably connectable to a complementary connecting device provided on a base unit of a medical treatment apparatus, in order to fasten the carrier member detachably to the medical treatment apparatus in such a position that a patient supported on the carrier member in a sitting or lying position is accessible to a medical treatment by means of a treatment unit of the medical treatment apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Armin Wellhöfer, Christof Donitzky
  • Patent number: 8337018
    Abstract: A surgical microscope (10) comprises an image display module for displaying an image to be overlaid into an observation beam path of the microscope, and an image sensor for recording an image of an eye (30) of an observer looking through the microscope. According to the invention, the image display module and the image sensor are formed by a common electronic module (28) produced in integrated circuit technology. The module (28) preferably has an organic light-emitting diode, produced in OLED-on-CMOS technology, for displaying the image to be overlaid. The image sensor may be formed by CMOS-compatible photodetectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Wavelight GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Wellhöfer, Christof Donitzky
  • Publication number: 20120296318
    Abstract: A system for surgical treatment of an eye includes a laser arrangement that is adapted to emit light with a wavelength and repetition-rate suitable for surgical treatment of the eye. The system further includes a temperature-registration device that is adapted to register the temperature of an object that is to be subjected to the light of the laser arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Armin Wellhöfer, Christof Donitzky
  • Publication number: 20110208531
    Abstract: A medical office, particularly for surgical eye treatments, includes at least one medical device which is controlled by a program-controlled computer, with a first plug-in interface for a data storage medium, and a data printing device, which is decoupled electrically and for signalling purposes from the medical device, with a second plug-in interface for the data storage medium. According to the invention, the computer of the medical device is set up to write data into the data storage medium via the first plug-in interface, whereas the data printing device is set up to read and print data stored on the data storage medium. The data storage medium can, for example, be a USB memory stick or another transportable medium, for which, in the data processing industry, standardised plug-in locations are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: WAVELIGHT AG
    Inventors: Armin Wellhoefer, Christof Donitzky