Patents by Inventor Daniel M. Eckert

Daniel M. Eckert 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).

  • Patent number: 11925309
    Abstract: A surgical hub for use with a surgical system in a surgical procedure performed in an operating room is disclosed. The surgical hub comprises a control circuit configured to generate a first image of a surgical site from a real-time imaging source, receive a second image of the surgical site from a non-real-time image source, align the first image and the second image, generate a representation of the surgical site based on the first image and the second image as aligned, display the representation on a display screen, receive a first user selection to overlay hidden structures on the representation, receive a second user selection to manipulate the representation, and adjust the representation based on the second user selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Andrew C. Deck, Jason L. Harris, Chad E. Eckert, Daniel J. Mumaw, Kevin M. Fiebig, Sarah A. Worthington
  • Patent number: 6617853
    Abstract: A magnet arrangement comprising a superconducting magnet coil system (C) for generating a magnetic field in the direction of a z axis in a working volume (AV) disposed on the z axis about z=0, wherein the field of the magnet coil system (C) in the working volume (AV) comprises at least one inhomogeneous contribution Hn·zn with n≧2 whose contribution to the total field strength on the z axis about z=0 varies with the nth power of z, and wherein a field shaping device (P) of magnetic material is provided, which is substantially cylindrically symmetrical with respect to the z axis, is characterized in that the magnet coil system (C) is provided for use in an apparatus for high-resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopy and the field shaping device (P) has, at least partially, a radial separation from the z axis of less than 80 mm and compensates for at least one of the inhomogeneous field contributions Hn·zn of the magnet coil system (C) by at least 50%, wherein at least one additi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Bruker Biospin AG
    Inventors: Pierre-Alain Bovier, Robert Schauwecker, Andreas Amann, Daniel M. Eckert
  • Publication number: 20020140427
    Abstract: A magnet arrangement comprising a superconducting magnet coil system (C) for generating a magnetic field in the direction of a z axis in a working volume (AV) disposed on the z axis about z=0, wherein the field of the magnet coil system (C) in the working volume (AV) comprises at least one inhomogeneous contribution Hn·zn with n≧2 whose contribution to the total field strength on the z axis about z=0 varies with the nth power of z, and wherein a field shaping device (P) of magnetic material is provided, which is substantially cylindrically symmetrical with respect to the z axis, is characterized in that the magnet coil system (C) is provided for use in an apparatus for high-resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopy and the field shaping device (P) has, at least partially, a radial separation from the z axis of less than 80 mm and compensates for at least one of the inhomogeneous field contributions Hn·zn of the magnet coil system (C) by at least 50%, wherein at least one additi
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: Bruker AG
    Inventors: Pierre-Alain Bovier, Robert Schauwecker, Andreas Amann, Daniel M. Eckert
  • Patent number: 6369464
    Abstract: An actively shielded, superconducting magnet arrangement for the generation of a magnetic field in the direction of a z axis in a working volume arranged about z=0, having a radially inner and a radially outer coaxial coil system, wherein the two coil systems carry the same current and have dipole moments of the same magnitude, but of opposite directions, wherein parts of the radially outer coil system (C2′) are electrically connected in series with the radially inner coil system (C1) and wherein a first superconducting switch (S1) is provided via which during operation a superconducting short circuit of a first current path of the magnet arrangement can be effected, is characterized in that a section (A′) of the radially outer coil system (C2′), which can be superconductingly short-circuited during operation via a further superconducting switch (S2) is arranged symmetrically to the plane z=0 and that the further superconducting current path formed by the superconductingly shor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Bruker AG
    Inventors: Robert Schauwecker, Pierre-Alain Bovier, Daniel M. Eckert, Michael Westphal
  • Patent number: 6307370
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet arrangement with at least two current paths, short-circuited via switches in the operational state, which may carry different currents, wherein the magnet arrangement comprises at least one actively shielded superconducting magnet with a radially inner and a radially outer coil system which carry approximately the same current and have dipole moments of approximately the same magnitude, but opposite in direction, such that an outer magnetic field disturbance in a working volume of the magnet arrangement in the long-term behavior is suppressed to a remaining value of less than 20% of the external magnetic field disturbance, is characterized in that sections of the superconducting current paths are disturbance, is characterized in that sections of the superconducting current paths are bridged by ohmic resistors and that said sections and the ohmic resistors are chosen such that the magnetic field disturbance in the working volume is reduced already directly after its occurrence with res
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Bruker AG
    Inventors: Robert Schauwecker, Pierre-Alain Bovier, Daniel M. Eckert