Patents by Inventor Marc Abitbol

Marc Abitbol 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).

  • Intraocular transplantation of encapsulated cells
    Patent number: 6267954
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for reducing ocular diseases by implanting in an eye of a subject a composition encapsulated cells which produce polypeptides, more particularly polypeptides that exhibit neurotrophic and/or anti-anglogenic activity. The encapsulation prevents the entry of host immune cells in the microcapsule while permitting the release of the polypeptide outside of the microcapsule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignees: Universite de Paris V Rene-Descartes, Association Francaise Retinitis Pigmentosa
    Inventors: Marc Abitbol, Yves Uteza, Maurice Menasche, Carine Bossard, Loïc Van Den Berghe, Sébastien Bonnel, Hervé Prats, Jiri Honiger, Martin Neuner-Jehle
  • Holding assembly for lens measuring device
    Patent number: 6154969
    Abstract: A holding assembly for holding spectacles, having an adjustable grip for fitting around a pair of spectacles. The adjustable grip is slidably mounted to allow alignment one after the other of each lens along a single predetermined axis perpendicular to the plane of the lens, such that the aligned lens has a clear line of sight to a lens measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Visionix Ltd.
    Inventors: Marc Abitbol, Yair Tal
  • Method and apparatus for identifying the position in three dimensions of a movable object such as a sensor or a tool carried by a robot
    Patent number: 5784282
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying the position of an object that is movable in a determined three-dimensional zone by means of a video camera (20) or the like mounted on the movable object (14), the camera (20) being capable of being swivelled to sight targets (22) disposed around the movable object (14) and to enable the position and the orientation of said object to be determined accurately by triangulation. The invention is particularly applicable to accurately determining the position and the orientation of a sensor or a tool mounted on a robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignees: Bertin & Cie, Sollac
    Inventors: Marc Abitbol, Jean-Luc Maillart