Patents by Inventor Daniel Kiessling

Daniel Kiessling 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: 20250195150
    Abstract: A device for automatically identifying medical and/or surgical items includes a capturing apparatus that has and/or uses at least one scanner unit and a detector such that the medical and/or surgical items are located between the scanner unit and the detector at least briefly during automated identification. An imaging and computing unit is preferably located on/in a housing. The at least one scanner unit is a source of electromagnetic radiation. The imaging and computing unit is configured to detect and to output, preferably postoperatively and/or intraoperatively, the completeness of the medical and/or surgical items and/or the absence of at least one medical and/or surgical item. The device can be part of an identification system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Arne Jansen-Troy, Dennis Goerz, Allan Maas, Matthias Henke, Daniel Kiessling
  • Publication number: 20250195707
    Abstract: A sterilizing container for medical purposes, in particular for medical instruments and the like, includes a base, a cover, a closure unit having a closure element and an actuation element, an energy store, and a control unit designed to control the actuation element by actuation energy stored in the energy store in such a way that the actuation element actuates the closure element. The control unit has a receiver designed to receive actuation signals that trigger actuation of the actuation element. The control unit also has a transmitter designed to send status signals containing information relating to a status of the closure unit. The sterilizing container is designed to secure the cover to the base by actuating the closure element by the actuation element. A control device can externally control the control unit. The sterilizing container and the control device can be parts of a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Arne Jansen-Troy, Matthias Henke, Daniel Kiessling
  • Publication number: 20250195708
    Abstract: A sterilizing container for medical purposes includes a base and a lid fastenable to the base. When the lid is closed, the base and lid define an inner region of the sterilizing container. A media exchange mechanism is designed, when the lid is closed, to selectively open and close at least one fluid-mechanical connection between the inner region and a surrounding environment. A control device is designed to control the media exchange mechanism. The sterilizing container has a ventilation device designed to convey a medium in the inner region and/or in the surrounding environment of the sterilizing container to the media exchange mechanism. The control device is designed to control the media exchange mechanism and the ventilation device in such a way that the at least one fluid-mechanical connection is open when a medium is conveyed. A control device can externally control the control device of the sterilizing container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Arne Jansen-Troy, Matthias Henke, Daniel Kiessling
  • Patent number: 12048570
    Abstract: An unlocking apparatus for unlocking locking devices of at least two medical ring instruments, and a sieve basket. The locking devices include cooperating locking elements, and the unlocking apparatus includes a first receiving body with at least two ring receptacles for accommodating first rings of the at least two ring instruments. The unlocking apparatus includes an unlocking body with at least two unlocking elements cooperating with second rings of the at least two ring instruments. The unlocking body and the receiving body are movable relative to one another in an actuating direction such that the at least two unlocking elements engage on and move the second rings relative to the first rings in an unlocking direction that is transverse, in particular perpendicular, to a first ring plane and to a second ring plane for transferring the locking devices from a locked position into an unlocked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Matthias Henke, Daniel Kiessling, Sebastian Luz
  • Publication number: 20230134498
    Abstract: An unlocking apparatus for unlocking locking devices of at least two medical ring instruments, and a sieve basket. The locking devices include cooperating locking elements, and the unlocking apparatus includes a first receiving body with at least two ring receptacles for accommodating first rings of the at least two ring instruments. The unlocking apparatus includes an unlocking body with at least two unlocking elements cooperating with second rings of the at least two ring instruments. The unlocking body and the receiving body are movable relative to one another in an actuating direction such that the at least two unlocking elements engage on and move the second rings relative to the first rings in an unlocking direction that is transverse, in particular perpendicular, to a first ring plane and to a second ring plane for transferring the locking devices from a locked position into an unlocked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Matthias Henke, Daniel Kiessling, Sebastian Luz
  • Patent number: 11473120
    Abstract: A reference test body for monitoring and/or verifying test conditions during a test of microbial barrier properties of at least one product, wherein the reference test body has a cavity, a nutrient medium, at least one opening, and at least one cover provided with a number of holes and covering the at least one opening. A constancy of test conditions can be monitored in this way. The invention further relates to an associated use, an associated test chamber, and an associated method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Selina Kammerer, Daniel Kiessling
  • Publication number: 20190376886
    Abstract: A test chamber for the microbial and/or a particulate barrier testing of a number of products, the test chamber having a test space which has, at least along a straight section, an inner extent of at least 1.5 m. As a result, a particularly homogeneous microbe and/or particle distribution is achieved. The invention also relates to an associated use and to an associated method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Selina Kammerer, Daniel Kiessling
  • Publication number: 20190376108
    Abstract: A reference test body for monitoring and/or verifying test conditions during a test of microbial barrier properties of at least one product, wherein the reference test body has a cavity, a nutrient medium, at least one opening, and at least one cover provided with a number of holes and covering the at least one opening. A constancy of test conditions can be monitored in this way. The invention further relates to an associated use, an associated test chamber, and an associated method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Selina Kammerer, Daniel Kiessling