Patents by Inventor Birgit Riesinger

Birgit Riesinger 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: 20110172617
    Abstract: A drainage device for the treatment of wounds using reduced pressure, includes (a) a gas-type wound-covering element, which is fastened cohesively at the skin surface around the region of the wound and forms a sealed wound space, remaining between the respective wound and the wound-covering element; (b) at least one drainage tube, which can be connected to a device generating reduced pressure and can be inserted into the wound space approximately parallel to the wound-covering element; and (c) at least one absorption body in the form of at least one layer of a textile section, which is interspersed with super-absorbing particles and enclosed in an envelope. Due to the size of the pores of the envelope, the absorbed wound secretions remain within the absorption body and underneath the wound-covering element until the absorption body is removed from the wound space. An air opening is provided for the wound-covering element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Patent number: 7959624
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (100) for treating wounds of the human or animal body using a vacuum and having a gas-tight wound-covering element (4), which, when placed in contact with the body of the patient, forms a wound space (10) between the respective wound and the wound-covering element, at least one connecting site (5.1; 5.2), which is in contact with the wound space (10), an absorption body (2), which is a layer, enclosed in an envelope, of a textile section, interspersed with super-absorbing particles, the envelope being permeable to liquids and having pores, the size of which does not exceed that of the super-absorbing particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Birgit Riesinger
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Patent number: 7922703
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drainage device (100) for the treatment of wounds using reduced pressure, comprising (a) a gas-type wound-covering element (3), which, in the state in contact with the body of the patient, is fastened cohesively at the skin surface around the region of the wound and forms a sealed wound space, remaining between the respective wound and the wound-covering element (3); (b) at least one drainage tube (4), which can be connected to means generating the reduced pressure and can be inserted into the wound space approximately parallel to the wound-covering element (3); and (c) at least one absorption body (2) in the form of at least one layer (7) of a textile section (33), which is interspersed with super-absorbing particles and enclosed in an envelope. Due to the size of the pores of the envelope, the absorbed wound secretions remain within the absorption body (2) and, with that, underneath the wound-covering element (3) until the absorption body is removed from the wound space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Publication number: 20110034894
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-component dressing (100) for treating wounds of the human or animal body using a reduced pressure, having a wound-covering element (4) for mounting the dressing (100) at the surface of the skin and the mucous membrane and at least one connecting site (5), which is in contact with the wound space (10) and over which the materials in the wound space (10) can be evacuated. The multi-component dressing has super-absorbing polymers, the absorbed wound secretions remaining bound to polymers in the wound space until the latter are removed from the wound space and the polymers, due to their binding capacity, supporting reciprocal synergies with the sub-atmospheric pressures. Wound exudate, promoted by the reduced pressure, is also stored and controlled by polymerized granulates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Publication number: 20100262090
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a wound care article for extraction and control of wound fluids, comprising at least one first fluid-absorbing structure (1; 10; 36), which is surrounded by a liquid-permeable, first enclosure (2), and a liquid-permeable, second enclosure (3) comprising two enclosing surfaces (13.1, 13.2). The wound care article is thus characterized in that the first enclosure (2) is covered or supported on at least one of its flat sides (4.1, 4.2) by at least one fluid-absorbing material layer (6.1, 6.2; 6.3), which is arranged (FIG. 1a) between the first enclosure (2) and one of the enclosing surfaces (13.1, 13.2) of the second enclosure (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Patent number: 7775998
    Abstract: A multi-component dressing (100) for treating wounds of the human or animal body, using a reduced pressure, comprising a wound-covering element (4) for mounting the dressing (100) at the surface of the skin and the mucous membrane having at least one connecting site (5) through which material in the wound space (10) can be evacuated. The multi-component dressing has super-absorbing polymers, the absorbed wound secretions remaining bound to polymers in the wound space until the latter are removed from the wound space and the polymers, due to their binding capacity, supporting reciprocal synergies with the sub-atmospheric pressures. Wound exudate, promoted by the reduced pressure, is also stored and controlled by polymerized granulates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Publication number: 20100042034
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a wound care article, exhibiting fibers with gel-forming properties containing at least one planar structure, as well as fibers with non-gel-forming properties, characterized in that the fibers are arranged in the form of planar fabric bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Publication number: 20090093779
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-permeable primary dressing in the form of a supple thermoplastic section of material (1.4), comprising: a first smooth surface (4); a second surface (5) facing away from the smooth surface (4); and a plurality of three-dimensional perforations, whose walls extend from the first smooth surface (4) and end in an overhang with a free edge, thus making the second surface (5) rough to the touch. At least one of the free edges has an angled section that is approximately perpendicular to a perforation axis. In a preferred embodiment, the periphery (13) of the material section is smooth on both sides, i.e. on both the first and second surfaces (4; 5), the periphery (13) of the surface (5) that was at first rough being thermally smoothed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Publication number: 20080312572
    Abstract: The invention relates to an absorbent article for application to human or animal skin surfaces in the region of wounds, consisting of an outer covering (2) which is permeable for liquid substances, and of an inner layer (1) which is surrounded by the covering (2) and which consists essentially of a mixture of an amount of strongly osmotically active substances with an amount of osmotically comparatively weak or osmotically inactive substances, such as cellulose. The inner layer (1) is filled with osmotically active substances in such a way that it is possible to exert on a wound, with the wound fluids contained therein, an osmotic pressure via which the wound fluid can be removed from the organism to be treated, and thus it is possible to assist both in the surfaced wound region and in the depth of the tissue a normal interstitial hydration of tissue by directing endogenous fluids in their direction of flow to the patient's skin surface into the absorbent article, and keeping them there.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Publication number: 20080306456
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wound treatment device (100) with at least one elastically deformable vacuum-generating element which can be actuated directly by hand and which is arranged on and connected directly to a film-like wound-covering element (2) that covers the wound chamber (1). The vacuum-generating element is a hollow body (4.1) whose cavity (7), in the state with the device applied to the patient's body, communicates directly with the wound chamber (1) via an opening (3) formed on the wound-covering element (2). At least one absorption body (5) that absorbs the wound secretions is positioned in the wound chamber (1) and is surrounded by a finely porous sleeve (6) that is permeable to liquid. The hollow body (4.1) is provided with at least one valve (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Publication number: 20080119802
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drainage device (100) for the treatment of wounds using reduced pressure, comprising (a) a gas-type wound-covering element (3), which, in the state in contact with the body of the patient, is fastened cohesively at the skin surface around the region of the wound and forms a sealed wound space, remaining between the respective wound and the wound-covering element (3); (b) at least one drainage tube (4), which can be connected to means generating the reduced pressure and can be inserted into the wound space approximately parallel to the wound-covering element (3); and (c) at least one absorption body (2) in the form of at least one layer (7) of a textile section (33), which is interspersed with super-absorbing particles and enclosed in an envelope. Due to the size of the pores of the envelope, the absorbed wound secretions remain within the absorption body (2) and, with that, underneath the wound-covering element (3) until the absorption body is removed from the wound space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Patent number: 7335809
    Abstract: An absorptive body (50) for attachment to the human body, especially for absorbing fluids coming out of parts of the human body such as wounds, has a substantially flat material section made of an absorbing material (1), which consists of an absorbing non-woven having super-absorber particles spread therein, and a fluid-permeable shell (2) that surrounds the material section, forms a barrier against solid excretions and enables the passage of other excreted substances into the material section made of absorbing material (1) that is arranged inside the shell (2). The shell is made of a small-pored material, whose pores are smaller than the unwetted super-absorber particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Publication number: 20080009812
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (100) for treating wounds of the human or animal body using a vacuum and having a gas-tight wound-covering element (4), which, when placed in contact with the body of the patient, forms a wound space (10) between the respective wound and the wound-covering element, at least one connecting site (5.1; 5.2), which is in contact with the wound space (10), an absorption body (2), which is a layer, enclosed in an envelope, of a textile section, interspersed with super-absorbing particles, the envelope being permeable to liquids and having pores, the size of which does not exceed that of the super-absorbing particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Publication number: 20080004559
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-component dressing (100) for treating wounds of the human or animal body using a reduced pressure, having a wound-covering element (4) for mounting the dressing (100) at the surface of the skin and the mucous membrane and at least one connecting site (5), which is in contact with the wound space (10) and over which the materials in the wound space (10) can be evacuated. The multi-component dressing has super-absorbing polymers, the absorbed wound secretions remaining bound to polymers in the wound space until the latter are removed from the wound space and the polymers, due to their binding capacity, supporting reciprocal synergies with the sub-atmospheric pressures. Wound exudate, promoted by the reduced pressure, is also stored and controlled by polymerized granulates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger
  • Publication number: 20050143697
    Abstract: The invention relates to an absorptive body (50) for attachment to the human body, especially for absorbing fluids coming out of parts of the human body such as wounds. Said absorptive body has a substantially flat material section made of an absorbing material (1), which consists of an absorbing nonwoven having super-absorber particles spread therein, and a fluid-permeable shell (2) that surrounds the material section, forms a barrier against solid excretions and enables the passage of other excreted substances into the material section made of absorbing material (1) that is arranged inside the shell (2). The shell is made of a small-pored material, whose pores are smaller than the unwetted super-absorber particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventor: Birgit Riesinger