Patents by Inventor Aymeric Niederhauser

Aymeric Niederhauser 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).

  • Medical device, apparatus, and surgical method
    Patent number: 11317869
    Abstract: An EEG headpiece includes an array of electrode pins, each electrode pin extending between a proximal end, formed by a proximal end face, and a distal end and including a conducting electrode and a thermoplastic material. The thermoplastic material is arranged at least around a periphery of the electrode pin or is pressable from a hollow space to the periphery. Each electrode pin is equipped for the transmission of energy, especially mechanical vibration energy, from the proximal end face to the thermoplastic material to liquefy at least portions of the thermoplastic material from a solid state to a flowable state, whereby the thermoplastic material is capable of flowing into structures of a tissue portion surrounding the periphery and of forming, after re-solidification of the thermoplastic material, an anchoring of the electrode pin in the tissue portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: WOODWELDING AG
    Inventors: Marcel Aeschlimann, Jörg Mayer, Mario Weiss, Aymeric Niederhauser
  • MEDICAL DEVICE, APPARATUS, AND SURGICAL METHOD
    Publication number: 20180153474
    Abstract: An EEG headpiece includes an array of electrode pins, each electrode pin extending between a proximal end, formed by a proximal end face, and a distal end and including a conducting electrode and a thermoplastic material. The thermoplastic material is arranged at least around a periphery of the electrode pin or is pressable from a hollow space to the periphery. Each electrode pin is equipped for the transmission of energy, especially mechanical vibration energy, from the proximal end face to the thermoplastic material to liquefy at least portions of the thermoplastic material from a solid state to a flowable state, whereby the thermoplastic material is capable of flowing into structures of a tissue portion surrounding the periphery and of forming, after re-solidification of the thermoplastic material, an anchoring of the electrode pin in the tissue portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Marcel Aeschlimann, Jörg Mayer, Mario Weiss, Aymeric Niederhauser