Patents by Inventor Daniel Hornung

Daniel Hornung 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).

  • Apparatus for terminating or unpinning rotating electric activity in a cardiac tissue
    Patent number: 11167144
    Abstract: An apparatus for terminating or unpinning rotating electric activity in a cardiac tissue analyzes an electric parameter for rotating electric activity in the cardiac tissue, and generates electric pulses in response to the rotating electric activity. The electric pulses are applied as electric field pulses and include a plurality of rotating electric activity synchronization pulses arranged at first intervals and a rotating electric activity termination or unpinning pulse following to the last synchronization pulse at a second interval which is similar to one of the first intervals. A maximum electric field strength caused the synchronization pulses is not more than 82% of a maximum electric field strength caused by the termination or unpinning pulse, and an electric pulse energy delivered to the cardiac tissue by each of the synchronization pulses is not more than 67% of an electric pulse energy delivered by the termination or unpinning pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.
    Inventors: Henrik tom Woerden, Daniel Hornung, Tariq Baig-Meininghaus
  • APPARATUS FOR TERMINATING OR UNPINNING ROTATING ELECTRIC ACTIVITY IN A CARDIAC TISSUE
    Publication number: 20190298999
    Abstract: An apparatus for terminating or unpinning rotating electric activity in a cardiac tissue analyzes an electric parameter for rotating electric activity in the cardiac tissue, and generates electric pulses in response to the rotating electric activity. The electric pulses are applied as electric field pulses and include a plurality of rotating electric activity synchronization pulses arranged at first intervals and a rotating electric activity termination or unpinning pulse following to the last synchronization pulse at a second interval which is similar to one of the first intervals. A maximum electric field strength caused the synchronization pulses is not more than 82% of a maximum electric field strength caused by the termination or unpinning pulse, and an electric pulse energy delivered to the cardiac tissue by each of the synchronization pulses is not more than 67% of an electric pulse energy delivered by the termination or unpinning pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Henrik tom Woerden, Daniel Hornung, Tariq Baig-Meininghaus