Patents by Inventor Christian Gerber
Christian Gerber 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).
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Publication number: 20240017092Abstract: At least one example embodiment relates to a method of manufacturing an applicator. The method includes providing a shaft. The shaft has a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The method further includes providing a cap, providing a base portion, and forming an applicator. The forming the applicator includes connecting the cap to the first end of the shaft and connecting the base portion to the second end of the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy GmbHInventors: Judith JAENSCH, Ruth DESELAERS, Christian GERBER, Josef RUPPRECHT, Thomas KNOEFEL, Michael OTT
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Publication number: 20230057358Abstract: A bone plate (1) for positioning along a medial or lateral portion of a clavicle including an upper surface (2) which, in an operative position, faces away from the clavicle, a lower surface (3) which, in the operative position, faces toward the clavicle, a non-linear central longitudinal axis (4), a middle portion (5) of the length LM, a left terminal portion (6) of the length LL extending from the left end of the middle portion having a plurality of circular screw holes (8) for receiving bone screws, and a right terminal portion (7) of the length LR extending from the right end of the middle portion having a plurality of circular screw holes (9) for receiving bone screws. The total length L of the bone plate corresponds to L=LM+LL+LR, and at least one of the circular screw holes is a variable angle screw hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Patrick BURKI, Christian GERBER, Beat Kaspar MOOR
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Publication number: 20230052650Abstract: A system for chip-removing machining of a workpiece and for measuring and evaluating force and torque during the chip-removing machining of the workpiece includes a machine tool with a tool for chip-removing machining of the workpiece; a device for measuring force and torque during chip-removing machining of the workpiece; and an evaluation unit for evaluating measured value data of the device. The measuring device includes a measuring unit installed in the machine tool and rotates with the tool about an axis of rotation during chip-removing machining. The evaluation unit is stationary. The measuring unit generates measured values of force and torque. The measuring device includes a control unit that transmits measured values as measured value data in a wireless manner directly to the evaluation unit with a transmission power in the range of 0.1 mW to 10 mW.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Christian GERBER, Gunnar KEITZEL
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Patent number: 11529177Abstract: The fracture fixation plate (1) is suitable for application to the proximal humerus, wherein •a) the fracture fixation plate (1) has an elongate body section (2) which has a free distal end (3) and a proximal end (4) to which there are adjoined, on each side, a right wing (5) having the center line (11) and a left wing (6) having the center line (12); •b) the body section (2) and the two wings (5, 6) are provided with a number of screw holes (7) for receiving bone-fastening elements (8), and the fracture fixation plate (1) has a bone contact face (9) and an opposite surface (10), and •c) the two wings (5, 6) have different lengths. Furthermore, •d) the two wings (5, 6) are curved, and •e) the extensions of the two curved center lines (11, 12) form an obtuse angle a.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Bonebridge AGInventors: Patrick Burki, Beat Kaspar Moor, Alex Schallberger, Christian Gerber
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Publication number: 20220202456Abstract: The fracture fixation plate (1) is suitable for application to the proximal humerus, wherein ?a) the fracture fixation plate (1) has an elongate body section (2) which has a free distal end (3) and a proximal end (4) to which there are adjoined, on each side, a right wing (5) having the center line (11) and a left wing (6) having the center line (12); ?b) the body section (2) and the two wings (5, 6) are provided with a number of screw holes (7) for receiving bone-fastening elements (8), and the fracture fixation plate (1) has a bone contact face (9) and an opposite surface (10), and ?c) the two wings (5, 6) have different lengths. Furthermore, ?d) the two wings (5, 6) are curved, and ?e) the extensions of the two curved center lines (11, 12) form an obtuse angle a.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Patrick BURKI, Beat Kaspar MOOR, Alex SCHALLBERGER, Christian GERBER
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Publication number: 20220008384Abstract: A composition comprising capsaicin or a capsacinoid is used in a method for postoperative pain control. The composition is administered to a site intended for surgery in a patient at least one day before surgery is actually performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: MESTEX AGInventors: Christian GERBER, Thomas GILLER, Olivier VALDENAIRE
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Publication number: 20180146959Abstract: An anchor element serves for knotless fixing of a tissue to a bone by means of at least one suture threaded through said anchor element. A body of that anchor element has an outer surface with projections. A transverse bore is arranged in a distal end section of said body for receiving a threading passing therethrough. A clamp element serves for clamping the suture threaded transversely through the bore. The clamping element has a portion arranged within the body and is movable within the body towards that transverse bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Christian Gerber, Dominik Meyer, Sascha Berberich
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Patent number: 9744336Abstract: Device for gravity-driven, particularly continuous, control of the filling pressure in a balloon catheter (3), comprising: a balloon reservoir that is statically loaded with a vertically guided weight guide or stamp (9) that weighs vertically on the balloon reservoir, wherein said weight guide or stamp is designed to carry vertically arranged and therewith plumb-vertically acting weight elements (8), and wherein the balloon reservoir is guided in a cylindrical shell (6).Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ZURICHInventor: Andreas Christian Gerber
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Patent number: 9622737Abstract: An anchor element serves for knotless fixing of a tissue to a bone by at least one suture threaded through the anchor element. A body of that anchor element has an outer surface with projections. A transverse bore is arranged in a distal end section of the body for receiving a threading passing therethrough. A clamp element serves for clamping the suture threaded transversely through the bore. The clamping element has a portion arranged within the body and is movable within the body towards that transverse bore.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignees: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, Universität ZürichInventors: Christian Gerber, Dominik Meyer, Sascha Berberich
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Publication number: 20150080793Abstract: Device for gravity-driven, particularly continuous, control of the filling pressure in a balloon catheter (3), comprising: a balloon reservoir that is statically loaded with a vertically guided weight guide or stamp (9) that weighs vertically on the balloon reservoir, wherein said weight guide or stamp is designed to carry vertically arranged and therewith plumb-vertically acting weight elements (8), and wherein the balloon reservoir is guided in a cylindrical shell (6).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventor: Andreas Christian Gerber
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Publication number: 20140222072Abstract: An anchor element serves for knotless fixing of a tissue to a bone by at least one suture threaded through the anchor element. A body of that anchor element has an outer surface with projections. A transverse bore is arranged in a distal end section of the body for receiving a threading passing therethrough. A clamp element serves for clamping the suture threaded transversely through the bore. The clamping element has a portion arranged within the body and is movable within the body towards that transverse bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: Christian Gerber, Dominik Meyer, Sascha Berberich
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Patent number: 8591512Abstract: An implant comprises a deformable gas tight sack. The sack comprises a first chamber in fluid communication with an obturatable opening, the chamber filled or fillable with a filling material filling the first chamber. The implant is configured such that when one or both of a gas and fluid surrounding the filling material is removed from the first chamber through the opening, a wall of the first chamber forms around and holds the filling material. This causes the implant to transition from a relatively flexible insertion state to a relatively rigid fixation state in which the implant is fixable in the target portions of bone.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Depuy Synthes Products, LLCInventors: Andreas Appenzeller, Philippe Gedet, Andre Weber, Christian Gerber
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Patent number: 8282669Abstract: A medical instrument for grasping surgical suture material, with a shaft on whose proximal end a handle is positioned consisting of at least two gripping members and on whose distal end a tool is positioned consisting of a rigid jaw member and a pivotable jaw member and where the pivotable jaw member can be pivoted with respect to the rigid jaw member for opening and closing with a moveably configured gripping member of the handle, for which purpose the pivotable jaw member and the moveable gripping member are in active connection with one another by means of an actuating element mounted in the shaft. To create a medical instrument that is both easy to operate and makes possible a safe grasping and guiding of the suture material, it is disclosed that in the rigid jaw member there should be configured an indentation that opens toward the pivotable jaw member and that can be covered, with the tool in closed position, only in the center area by the pivotable jaw member.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2010Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Christian Gerber, Martin Oberlaender, Sascha Berberich
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Publication number: 20120116399Abstract: An implant comprises a deformable gas tight sack. The sack comprises a first chamber in fluid communication with an obturatable opening, the chamber filled or fillable with a filling material filling the first chamber. The implant is configured such that when one or both of a gas and fluid surrounding the filling material is removed from the first chamber through the opening, a wall of the first chamber forms around and holds the filling material. This causes the implant to transition from a relatively flexible insertion state to a relatively rigid fixation state in which the implant is fixable in the target portions of bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Inventors: Andreas Appenzeller, Philippe Gedet, Andre Weber, Christian Gerber
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Patent number: 8095496Abstract: The invention relates to architecture of a computer program in order to implement a multi-agent system. The architecture enables the agents to interact with a simulation or game world on a first plane and/or with robots in the real world. Said architecture has a second and third plane. Said second plane contains an abstract representation of the simulation world on the first plane which reduces on concepts. Said third plane implements the agents of the multi-agent system. Interfaces are only arranged between the first and second plane, and between the second and third plane, not, however, between the first and the third plane. The artificial intelligence of the agents is implemented on the second and third planes such that the simulation world of the first plane can be widened, which leads to artificial intelligence. As a result, the architecture provides a KI-middleware for, for example, computer games.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: X-aitment GmbHInventors: Andreas Gerber, Gero Vierke, Christian Gerber, Markus Wilhelm, Tobias Schild
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Publication number: 20110295375Abstract: An articular cavity prosthesis comprises a block extending along a central axis and including a top section and a base section, the top section having an articular bearing surface extending transverse to the central axis and a supporting surface opposite the articular bearing surface configured to contact a surface of a bone on which the block is to be mounted, the base section having a fixing protrusion protruding outward from the supporting surface along the central axis and having a volume V, the block being formed of human tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: Andreas Appenzeller, Christian Gerber, Philippe Gedet, Daniel Fluri, Mazda Farshad
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Publication number: 20100318125Abstract: An anchor device serves for knot-free attachment of a tissue to a bone by means of at least one suture threaded through that anchor device. The device comprises an anchor body and a transverse bore for receiving a suture passing through said anchor body in a distal end region. The anchor body is provided with a longitudinal bore extending axially from a proximal end up to said transverse bore, and an axially displaceable clamping element is held in said longitudinal bore. An expanding element is provided for radially expanding at least one section of a wall surrounding said longitudinal bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Christian Gerber, Sascha Berberich, Rainer Ulmschneider
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Publication number: 20100217286Abstract: A medical instrument for grasping surgical suture material, with a shaft on whose proximal end a handle is positioned consisting of at least two gripping members and on whose distal end a tool is positioned consisting of a rigid jaw member and a pivotable jaw member and where the pivotable jaw member can be pivoted with respect to the rigid jaw member for opening and closing with a moveably configured gripping member of the handle, for which purpose the pivotable jaw member and the moveable gripping member are in active connection with one another by means of an actuating element mounted in the shaft. To create a medical instrument that is both easy to operate and makes possible a safe grasping and guiding of the suture material, it is disclosed that in the rigid jaw member there should be configured an indentation that opens toward the pivotable jaw member and that can be covered, with the tool in closed position, only in the center area by the pivotable jaw member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2010Publication date: August 26, 2010Inventors: Christian Gerber, Martin Oberlaender, Sascha Berberich
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Publication number: 20090204563Abstract: The invention relates to architecture of a computer program in order to implement a multi-agent system. The architecture enables the agents to interact with a simulation or game world on a first plane and/or with robots in the real world. Said architecture has a second and third plane. Said second plane contains an abstract representation of the simulation world on the first plane which reduces on concepts. Said third plane implements the agents of the multi-agent system. Interfaces are only arranged between the first and second plane, and between the second and third plane, not however between the first and the third plane. The artificial intelligence of the agents is implemented on the second and third planes such that the simulation world of the first plane can be widened, which leads to artificial intelligence. As a result, the architecture provides a KI-middleware for, for example, computer games.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2006Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: X-aitment GmbHInventors: Andreas Gerber, Gero Vierke, Christian Gerber, Markus Wilhelm, Tobias Schild
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Publication number: 20070203498Abstract: An anchor element serves for knotless fixing of a tissue to a bone by means of at least one suture threaded through said anchor element. A body of that anchor element has an outer surface with projections. A transverse bore is arranged in a distal end section of said body for receiving a threading passing therethrough. A clamp element serves for clamping the suture threaded transversely through the bore. The clamping element has a portion arranged within the body and is movably within the body towards that transverse bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2007Publication date: August 30, 2007Inventors: Christian Gerber, Dominik Meyer, Sascha Berberich