Patents by Inventor Georges Ratkoff

Georges Ratkoff 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).

  • Portable apparatus for localized heating of the skin for therapeutic purposes
    Patent number: 4944297
    Abstract: The apparatus has an elongated body (6) having an open end (7) in a plane (8) which is pressed against the surface (2A) of the skin (2) around a location that has been stung by a sting (1) which has caused venom to diffuse (5) in the skin. The end is pressed in such a manner as to enable a heater element (9) set back from the opening (7) to apply a heat flux to the skin lying in the range 0.03 W/mm.sup.2 and 0.30 W/mm.sup.2 such that the penetration (2B) of the heat into the skin heats up the skin to between 50.degree. C. and 60.degree.0 C., thereby destroying the venom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Inventors: Georges Ratkoff, Jean-Paul Deheuvels