Patents by Inventor Frank Nagl

Frank Nagl 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: 9855157
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical device for inserting into a hollow organ of the body. The device has a compressible and expandable lattice structure made of webs, which are integrally connected to each other by web connectors and which bound closed cells of the lattice structure, wherein the web connectors each have a connector axis extending between two cells which, in a longitudinal direction of the lattice structure, are adjacent to each other. During the transition of the lattice structure from the production state to a compressed state, the web connectors rotate in such a way that an angle between the connector axis and a longitudinal axis of the lattice structure changes, in particular increases, during the transition of the lattice structure from a completely expanded production state to a partially expanded intermediate state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Giorgio Cattaneo, David Klopp, Frank Nagl
  • Publication number: 20160158039
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical device for inserting into a hollow organ of the body. The device has a compressible and expandable lattice structure made of webs, which are integrally connected to each other by web connectors and which bound closed cells of the lattice structure, wherein the web connectors each have a connector axis extending between two cells which, in a longitudinal direction of the lattice structure, are adjacent to each other. During the transition of the lattice structure from the production state to a compressed state, the web connectors rotate in such a way that an angle between the connector axis and a longitudinal axis of the lattice structure changes, in particular increases, during the transition of the lattice structure from a completely expanded production state to a partially expanded intermediate state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Giorgio CATTANEO, David KLOPP, Frank NAGL
  • Patent number: 9138334
    Abstract: A medical device with a radially compressible and expandable lattice structure (10) contains at least one closed cell (15) delimited in each case by four webs (11, 12, 13, 14) coupled to one another in one piece, of which at least one web (11, 12, 13, 14) is embodied as a stabilisation web (11, 13) with a first web width b1 and at least two further webs (11, 12, 13, 14) are embodied as connecting webs (12, 14) with a second web width b2, wherein the connecting webs (12, 14) are arranged inside the cell (15) so that they lie parallel opposite one another and are connected to one another by the stabilisation webs (11, 13) and wherein the ratio b1/b2 between the first web width b1 and the second web width b2 is at least 1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Giorgio Cattaneo, Frank Nagl, Werner Mailaender
  • Publication number: 20130131690
    Abstract: A medical device for removing concretions from hollow organs of the body, with a functional element, which has a rotationally symmetrical lattice structure, and a device for holding a concretion in the structure, and a catheter for introducing the element into the body and removing it. The element can be converted from a compressed state in the catheter to an expanded state outside the catheter, in the expanded state the element is arranged distally from the catheter. The structure has a cutting area with webs, adapted so they at least partially pass radially through the concretion when the element is converted from the compressed to the expanded state. A holding element is connected on one hand to the structure and on the other hand to a guide wire arranged in the catheter, so that the holding element is deflected radially inwards in the expanded state of the functional element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Frank Nagl, Werner Mailänder, Giorgio Cattaneo, Kirsi Schüssler
  • Publication number: 20120191176
    Abstract: A medical implant having a wall, which can be transferred from a compressed to an expanded state and includes a mesh structure formed of first struts, wherein the mesh structure has closed cells, each having a retaining element, which is adapted to anchor the expanded mesh structure in a vessel. The retaining element has at least two second struts which are connected to one another and form a tip which projects into the cell, and are connected to the first struts of the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Frank Nagl, Werner Mailaender