Patents by Inventor Markus Nagl
Markus 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).
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Publication number: 20220273594Abstract: Composition and methods for treatment or prevention of a respiratory infection in a mammal, including a viral infection, like a coronavirus such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), or variants thereof. The compositions and methods include a therapeutically effective amount of about a 1% solution of N-chlorotaurine in water. The methods include administering N-chlorotaurine by nasal spray to the nostrils, by oral spray to the throat, and by nebulizer to the lungs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventor: Markus Nagl
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Patent number: 9980066Abstract: An external component for a bone conduction hearing implant is described. An external housing contains an electromagnetic drive coil, a coil core, and at least one spacer container located adjacent to one of the longitudinal ends of the coil core and configured to hold an optional removable spacer piece. The coil core and any pole pieces and side pieces are configured to magnetically interact with an implant magnet in the bone conduction transducer in the absence of electrical current in the drive coil to hold the external housing in the fixed attachment on the skin of the hearing implant patient over the bone conduction transducer. And electrical current in the drive coil magnetically interacts with the coil core and any pole pieces and side pieces to generate the implant communication signals to the implant magnet to create a mechanical vibration signal in the bone conduction transducer for perception by the patient as sound.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbHInventors: Markus Nagl, Thomas Lechleitner, Günther Weidenholzer
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Patent number: 9615181Abstract: An arrangement is described for a hearing implant system. An implantable housing has an outer surface configured to lie under and parallel to the skin of the implanted patient. An implant magnet arrangement is located within the implantable housing and has multiple local magnetic sections with different independent local magnetic fields that are combined together to form a net magnetic field with at least two-fold symmetry and zero net magnetic dipole moment, wherein the magnetic fields are oriented parallel to the outer surface of the implant housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2013Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbHInventors: Markus Nagl, Thomas Lechleitner, Peter Lampacher, Wolfgang Amrhein, Gunther Weidenholzer
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Publication number: 20170086002Abstract: An external component for a bone conduction hearing implant is described. An external housing contains an electromagnetic drive coil, a coil core, and at least one spacer container located adjacent to one of the longitudinal ends of the coil core and configured to hold an optional removable spacer piece. The coil core and any pole pieces and side pieces are configured to magnetically interact with an implant magnet in the bone conduction transducer in the absence of electrical current in the drive coil to hold the external housing in the fixed attachment on the skin of the hearing implant patient over the bone conduction transducer. And electrical current in the drive coil magnetically interacts with the coil core and any pole pieces and side pieces to generate the implant communication signals to the implant magnet to create a mechanical vibration signal in the bone conduction transducer for perception by the patient as sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Markus Nagl, Thomas Lechleitner, Günther Weidenholzer
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Patent number: 9549267Abstract: An implantable magnetic transducer arrangement is described for a hearing implant in a recipient patient. An implant housing hermetically encapsulates an interior housing volume and is fixedly attached to skull bone beneath the skin of the patient. A magnetic transducer is located within the housing volume and includes multiple pie-shaped permanent magnets wherein adjacent magnets have different direction magnetic polarities, and one or more suspension elements that resiliently couple adjacent magnets to allow their relative movement. The magnetic transducer is operatively coupled to an external magnetic drive component above the skin of the patient to form an oscillating system that develops a mechanical stimulation signal to the implant housing for delivery by bone conduction of the skull bone as an audio signal to the cochlea of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbHInventors: Markus Nagl, Thomas Lechleitner
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Publication number: 20160205484Abstract: An implantable magnetic transducer arrangement is described for a hearing implant in a recipient patient. An implant housing hermetically encapsulates an interior housing volume and is fixedly attached to skull bone beneath the skin of the patient. A magnetic transducer is located within the housing volume and includes multiple pie-shaped permanent magnets wherein adjacent magnets have different direction magnetic polarities, and one or more suspension elements that resiliently couple adjacent magnets to allow their relative movement. The magnetic transducer is operatively coupled to an external magnetic drive component above the skin of the patient to form an oscillating system that develops a mechanical stimulation signal to the implant housing for delivery by bone conduction of the skull bone as an audio signal to the cochlea of the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Markus Nagl, Thomas Lechleitner
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Patent number: 9392382Abstract: An implantable magnetic transducer arrangement is described for a hearing implant in a recipient patient. An implant housing hermetically encapsulates an interior housing volume and is fixedly attached to skull bone beneath the skin of the patient. A magnetic transducer is located within the housing volume and includes multiple permanent magnets wherein adjacent magnets have opposite magnetic polarities, and one or more suspension elements that resiliently couple adjacent magnets to allow their relative movement. The magnetic transducer forms a coupled oscillating system with an external magnetic drive component above the skin of the patient to develop a mechanical stimulation signal to the implant housing for delivery by bone conduction of the skull bone as an audio signal to the cochlea of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2013Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbHInventors: Markus Nagl, Thomas Lechleitner
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Publication number: 20160198270Abstract: An implantable magnetic transducer arrangement is described for a hearing implant in a recipient patient. An implant housing hermetically encapsulates an interior housing volume and is fixedly attached to skull bone beneath the skin of the patient. A magnetic transducer is located within the housing volume and includes multiple permanent magnets wherein adjacent magnets have opposite magnetic polarities, and one or more suspension elements that resiliently couple adjacent magnets to allow their relative movement. The magnetic transducer forms a coupled oscillating system with an external magnetic drive component above the skin of the patient to develop a mechanical stimulation signal to the implant housing for delivery by bone conduction of the skull bone as an audio signal to the cochlea of the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2013Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Markus Nagl, Thomas Lechleitner
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Publication number: 20150073205Abstract: An implantable magnet arrangement is described for a hearing implant in a recipient patient. A pair of implant magnets are fixable in a common plane beneath the skin of the patient to underlying skull bone. At least one of the magnets is adapted to transform a magnetic drive signal from an external signal drive coil into a corresponding mechanical stimulation signal for delivery by bone conduction of the skull bone as an audio signal to the cochlea. Each implant magnet includes a pair of internal magnets lying in parallel planes which meet along a common junction with repelling like magnetic polarities facing towards each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Geoffrey R. Ball, Markus Nagl
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Patent number: 8897475Abstract: An implantable magnet arrangement is described for a hearing implant in a recipient patient. A pair of implant magnets are fixable in a common plane beneath the skin of the patient to underlying skull bone. At least one of the magnets is adapted to transform a magnetic drive signal from an external signal drive coil into a corresponding mechanical stimulation signal for delivery by bone conduction of the skull bone as an audio signal to the cochlea. Each implant magnet includes a pair of internal magnets lying in parallel planes which meet along a common junction with repelling like magnetic polarities facing towards each other, and the magnetic polarities of each implant magnet are reversed from each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Vibrant Med-El Hearing Technology GmbHInventors: Geoffrey R. Ball, Markus Nagl
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Publication number: 20140012070Abstract: An implantable magnetic transducer arrangement is described for a hearing implant in a recipient patient. An implant housing hermetically encapsulates an interior housing volume and is fixedly attached to skull bone beneath the skin of the patient. A magnetic transducer is located within the housing volume and includes multiple permanent magnets wherein adjacent magnets have opposite magnetic polarities, and one or more suspension elements that resiliently couple adjacent magnets to allow their relative movement. The magnetic transducer forms a coupled oscillating system with an external magnetic drive component above the skin of the patient to develop a mechanical stimulation signal to the implant housing for delivery by bone conduction of the skull bone as an audio signal to the cochlea of the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Markus Nagl, Thomas Lechleitner
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Publication number: 20140012071Abstract: An arrangement is described for a hearing implant system. An implantable housing has an outer surface configured to lie under and parallel to the skin of the implanted patient. An implant magnet arrangement is located within the implantable housing and has multiple local magnetic sections with different independent local magnetic fields that are combined together to form a net magnetic field with at least two-fold symmetry and zero net magnetic dipole moment, wherein the magnetic fields are oriented parallel to the outer surface of the implant housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Markus Nagl, Thomas Lechleitner, Peter Lampacher, Wolfgang Amrhein, Gunther Weidenholzer
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Publication number: 20120238799Abstract: A magnet arrangement is described for use in implantable devices. An implantable housing contains a portion of an implantable electronic system. An implant magnet arrangement within the housing has adjacent magnetic sections that lie substantially in a common plane and include an inner center disc having an inner magnetic orientation in an inner magnetic direction, and an outer radial ring having an outer magnetic orientation in an outer magnetic direction opposite to the inner magnetic direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: Vibrant Med-EI Hearing Technology GmbHInventors: Geoffrey R. BALL, Peter LAMPACHER, Bernhard JAMNIG, Martin ZIMMERLING, Gunther WEIDENHOLZER, Markus NAGL, Wolfgang AMRHEIN
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Publication number: 20120172659Abstract: A magnet arrangement is described for use with hearing implant systems. An external device for use with an implant system has an external device housing that contains external elements of a hearing implant system. A cylindrical external magnet arrangement within the housing has multiple magnetic sections lying in a common plane, including an inner center disc having an inner magnetic orientation in an inner magnetic direction, and an outer radial ring having an outer magnetic orientation in an outer magnetic direction opposite to the inner magnetic direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Vibrant Med-El Hearing Technology GmbHInventors: Geoffrey R. Ball, Peter Lampacher, Bernhard Jamnig, Martin Zimmerling, Gunther Weidenholzer, Markus Nagl, Wolfgang Amrhein
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Publication number: 20110151025Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for the treatment or prophylaxis, in a mammal, of bronchopulmonary infections, obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, and ventilator-associated infections. The methods and compositions include a therapeutically effective amount of one or more N-halogenated or N,N-dihalogenated amines, and their analogues, derivatives, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: Waldemar Gottardi, Markus Nagl, Ramin Najafi, Lu Wang, Rakesh K. Jain, Timothy Shiau, Eddy Low, Charles Francavilla
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Publication number: 20110022120Abstract: A magnet arrangement is described for use in implantable devices. An implantable housing contains a portion of an implantable electronic system. A cylindrical implant magnet arrangement within the housing includes multiple adjacent magnetic sections wherein at least two of the magnetic sections have opposing magnetic orientations in opposite magnetic directions. There may also be a similar external housing having a corresponding magnet arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: VIBRANT MED-EL HEARING TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Geoffrey R. Ball, Peter Lampacher, Bernhard Jamnig, Martin Zimmerling, Gunrher Weidenholzer, Markus Nagl, Wolfgang Amrhein
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Publication number: 20090182055Abstract: A fungicidal agent for treating infectious diseases caused by fungi contains N-chlorotaurine or one of its salts in aqueous solution, optionally with customary pharmaceutical additives.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2007Publication date: July 16, 2009Inventors: Waldemar Gottardi, Markus NAGL, Andreas NEHER
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Publication number: 20090029956Abstract: A substance mixture comprising at least one glucocorticoid and at least one N-chloro compound and/or at least one O-chloro compound as well as a medicament containing such a substance mixture as well as the use and manufacture of such a medicament for the topical treatment of inflammations.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2006Publication date: January 29, 2009Inventors: Bruno Pregenzer, Alfred Konzett, Andreas Neher, Waldemar Gottardi, Markus Nagl
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Publication number: 20080269338Abstract: The combination of N-chlorotaurine, preferably in the form of sodium salt, and ammonium chloride in aqueous solution absent a buffer is a powerful antiseptic preparation sufficiently stable for use in topical treatment of infections, inflammation and oozing tissue deficiencies. The outstanding microbicidal properties of the preparation are founded in the formation of monochloramine, which is distinguished by the absence, or substantial absence, of dichloramine and trichloramine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2007Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventors: Waldemar Gottardi, Barbara Teuchner, Markus Nagl
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Publication number: 20080207750Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition containing N-chlorotaurine is administered to a mammal to treat oozing tissue deficiencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2003Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: Pathogenics LLCInventors: Waldemar Gottardi, Andreas Neher, Markus Nagl