Patents by Inventor Michael Wirth

Michael Wirth 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).

  • Publication number: 20240397027
    Abstract: A digital stereo image display device has a holding arm which includes a proximal end for attachment to a mount for an optical system with a digital image recording device and which includes a distal end where two digital eyepieces are present and configured to display the images captured by the image recording device from two different viewing angles. An interface part of a quick release interface for releasable attachment to the mount is present at the proximal end. A system includes the digital image display device and a mount. A digital surgical microscope includes the system and a digital image recording device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christian Wolf, Hubert Katzer, Michael Wirth, Daniel Kolster
  • Publication number: 20240317120
    Abstract: A child seat comprising a seat body comprising a seat portion and a backrest portion. The seat body is configured to receive a belt, with a shoulder section and a lap section, of the vehicle seat in an untensioned state. A tensioning mechanism comprising a clamping member pivotally attached with respect to the seat body, the clamping member is rotatable between a first and second position. Placing the clamping member in the second position allows the seat body to receive the belt of the vehicle seat, and movement of the clamping member from the second position to the first position presses a portion of the clamping member against both the shoulder section and the lap section of the belt such that a portion of the shoulder section and the lap section are displaced by the clamping member to secure the child seat to the vehicle seat in a tensioned configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Tomislav Ravlic, Stefan Suessmann, Tobias Krones, Michael Wirth, Issam Moujib
  • Publication number: 20240217399
    Abstract: A child seat having a seat assembly, a back assembly connected to the seat assembly, and a seat belt guide assembly attached to the back assembly, the guide assembly including an openable ring having a closed condition defining an aperture and an open condition, the ring including a flexible gate portion terminating at a connector; and a receiver support portion terminating at a receiver for receiving the connector; wherein the connector and the receiver are separable through elastic bending of the gate portion to open the ring sufficiently to allow installation of a vehicle seat belt there-through, and wherein the connector and the receiver are mutually shaped to form a latch, the latch releasably holding the gate portion and the receiver support portion together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Wirth, Fabian Lissek
  • Patent number: 11857428
    Abstract: The invention relates to a modular humeral prosthesis for an inverse shoulder prosthesis, comprising an anatomical shaft (1) and a separable epiphyseal head (2) which may be angularly orientated by rotation about the longitudinal axis (XX) of the anatomical shaft. The anatomical shaft and the epiphyseal head comprise complementary angular indexing means (11, 28) for relative rotational fixation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Ireland Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Cecile Nerot, Didier Capon, Ludwig Seebauer, Anders Ekelund, Lieven De Wilde, Michael Wirth, David Collins, Laurent Lafosse, Didier Poncet
  • Patent number: 11229522
    Abstract: The invention relates to a modular humeral prosthesis for an inverse shoulder prosthesis, comprising an anatomical shaft (1) and a separable epiphyseal head (2) which may be angularly orientated by rotation about the longitudinal axis (XX) of the anatomical shaft. The anatomical shaft and the epiphyseal head comprise complementary angular indexing means (11, 28) for relative rotational fixation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventors: Cecile Nerot, Didier Capon, Ludwig Seebauer, Anders Ekelund, Lieven De Wilde, Michael Wirth, David Collins, Laurent Lafosse, Didier Poncet
  • Publication number: 20210290403
    Abstract: The invention relates to a modular humeral prosthesis for an inverse shoulder prosthesis, comprising an anatomical shaft (1) and a separable epiphyseal head (2) which may be angularly orientated by rotation about the longitudinal axis (XX) of the anatomical shaft. The anatomical shaft and the epiphyseal head comprise complementary angular indexing means (11, 28) for relative rotational fixation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: CECILE NEROT, DIDIER CAPON, LUDWIG SEEBAUER, ANDERS EKELUND, LIEVEN DE WILDE, MICHAEL WIRTH, DAVID COLLINS, LAURENT LAFOSSE, DIDIER PONCET
  • Patent number: 9820820
    Abstract: A module for a visualization apparatus includes an imaging optic accommodated in a base body for generating a viewing image of an object region with an optical viewing beam path. The module includes a display unit for visualizing an image superimposed on the viewed image of the object region with orientation information. The module has an image acquisition unit having an image sensor for acquiring an image of the object region. The module contains a switching unit for selectively providing and blocking an optical beam path from the display to the image sensor. The switching unit, in a first switching state, provides the image of a geometric structure on the display onto the image sensor with the optical beam path and, in a further switching state blocks the optical beam path from a geometric structure on the display to the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Helge Jess, Michael Wirth
  • Publication number: 20170181860
    Abstract: The invention relates to a modular humeral prosthesis for an inverse shoulder prosthesis, comprising an anatomical shaft (1) and a separable epiphyseal head (2) which may be angularly orientated by rotation about the longitudinal axis (XX) of the anatomical shaft. The anatomical shaft and the epiphyseal head comprise complementary angular indexing means (11, 28) for relative rotational fixation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: CECILE NEROT, DIDIER CAPON, LUDWIG SEEBAUER, ANDERS EKELUND, LIEVEN DE WILDE, MICHAEL WIRTH, DAVID COLLINS, LAURENT LAFOSSE, DIDIER PONCET
  • Publication number: 20170172751
    Abstract: A humeral component of a reverse shoulder prosthesis includes a stem part configured for location within the intramedullary cavity of the humerus, the stem part having a stem axis, an epiphyseal part connected to the elongate stem part and having a concave bearing surface defining an epiphyseal axis, and wherein the epiphyseal axis is offset posteriorly relative to the stem axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: DIDIER PONCET, CECILE NEROT, DIDIER CAPON, LUDWIG SEEBAUER, ANDERS EKELUND, LIEVEN DE WILDE, MICHAEL WIRTH, DAVID COLLINS, LAURENT LAFOSSE
  • Patent number: 9622869
    Abstract: The invention relates to a modular humeral prosthesis for an inverse shoulder prosthesis, comprising an anatomical shaft (1) and a separable epiphyseal head (2) which may be angularly orientated by rotation about the longitudinal axis (XX) of the anatomical shaft. The anatomical shaft and the epiphyseal head comprise complementary angular indexing means (11, 28) for relative rotational fixation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Cecile Nerot, Didier Capon, Ludwig Seebauer, Anders Ekelund, Lieven De Wilde, Michael Wirth, David Collins, Laurent Lafosse, Didier Poncet
  • Patent number: 9610165
    Abstract: A humeral component of a reverse shoulder prosthesis includes a stem part configured for location within the intramedullary cavity of the humerus, the stem part having a stem axis, an epiphyseal part connected to the elongate stem part and having a concave bearing surface defining an epiphyseal axis, and wherein the epiphyseal axis is offset posteriorly relative to the stem axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignees: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Didier Poncet, Cecile Nerot, Didier Capon, Ludwig Seebauer, Anders Ekelund, Lieven De Wilde, Michael Wirth, David Collins, Laurent Lafosse
  • Patent number: 9279974
    Abstract: A microscopy system method for inspecting a retina of an eye including generating an inverted intermediate image of the retina using an opthalmoscopic lens; detecting a left image of the intermediate image from a left viewing direction and detecting a right image of the intermediate image from a right viewing direction; and displaying an inverted representation of the detected left image to a right eye of a user and displaying an inverted representation of the detected right image to a left eye of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITIC AG
    Inventors: Christian Luecke, Alfons Abele, Dirk Brunner, Frank Rudolph, Fritz Straehle, Joachim Steffen, Michael Wirth
  • Publication number: 20150209116
    Abstract: A module for a visualization apparatus includes an imaging optic accommodated in a base body for generating a viewing image of an object region with an optical viewing beam path. The module includes a display unit for visualizing an image superimposed on the viewed image of the object region with orientation information. The module has an image acquisition unit having an image sensor for acquiring an image of the object region. The module contains a switching unit for selectively providing and blocking an optical beam path from the display to the image sensor. The switching unit, in a first switching state, provides the image of a geometric structure on the display onto the image sensor with the optical beam path and, in a further switching state blocks the optical beam path from a geometric structure on the display to the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Helge Jess, Michael Wirth
  • Patent number: 8695599
    Abstract: The invention relates to a respiratory device for keeping a patient breathing artificially or support his or her breathing naturally. Said respiratory device comprises an air inlet, an air source, and at least one proportionally adjustable control valve. The control valve is provided with a housing (11) and a rotary valve (12) which is arranged in the housing so as to be twistable about the longitudinal axis thereof and which allows through-holes (11d) of the housing (11) to be entirely or partially closed by twisting the rotary valve (12). The rotary valve (12) and a corresponding support surface (11f) of the housing (11) have a conical shape, the support surface (11f) cooperating with the rotary valve (12). The through-holes (11d) are disposed in the area of the support surface (11f).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: imtmedical ag
    Inventors: Harri Friberg, Jakob Daescher, Michael Wirth, Felix Kramer
  • Publication number: 20100139656
    Abstract: The invention relates to a respiratory device for keeping a patient breathing artificially or support his or her breathing naturally. Said respiratory device comprises an air inlet, an air source, and at least one proportionally adjustable control valve. The control valve is provided with a housing (11) and a rotary valve (12) which is arranged in the housing so as to be twistable about the longitudinal axis thereof and which allows through-holes (11d) of the housing (11) to be entirely or partially closed by twisting the rotary valve (12). The rotary valve (12) and a corresponding support surface (11f) of the housing (11) have a conical shape, the support surface (11f) cooperating with the rotary valve (12). The through-holes (11d) are disposed in the area of the support surface (11f).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: IMTMEDICAL A.G.
    Inventors: Harri Friberg, Jakob Daescher, Michael Wirth, Felix Kramer
  • Patent number: 7688503
    Abstract: A microscopy system allows to superimpose a light optically generated microscopic image of an object with an electronically generated image. The electronically generated image is composed of two input images, one of which is independent of optical settings of an ocular tube, such as a rotational position and a magnification thereof, and the other input image is dependent of the optical setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Stiftung
    Inventors: Karlheinz Hermann, Frank Rudolph, Martin Schneider, Joachim Steffen, Michael Wirth
  • Publication number: 20090210065
    Abstract: The invention relates to a modular humeral prosthesis for an inverse shoulder prosthesis, comprising an anatomical shaft (1) and a separable epiphyseal head (2) which may be angularly orientated by rotation about the longitudinal axis (XX) of the anatomical shaft. The anatomical shaft and the epiphyseal head comprise complementary angular indexing means (11, 28) for relative rotational fixation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Cecile Nerot, Didier Capon, Ludwig Seebauer, Anders Ekelund, Lieven De Wilde, Michael Wirth, David Collins, Laurent Lafosse, Didier Poncet
  • Publication number: 20090180178
    Abstract: A microscopy system method for inspecting a retina of an eye including generating an inverted intermediate image of the retina using an opthalmoscopic lens; detecting a left image of the intermediate image from a left viewing direction and detecting a right image of the intermediate image from a right viewing direction; and displaying an inverted representation of the detected left image to a right eye of a user and displaying an inverted representation of the detected right image to a left eye of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Christian LUECKE, Alfons Abele, Dirk Brunner, Frank Rudolph, Fritz Straehle, Joachim Steffen, Michael Wirth
  • Publication number: 20090171462
    Abstract: A humeral component of a reverse shoulder prosthesis includes a stem part configured for location within the intramedullary cavity of the humerus, the stem part having a stem axis, an epiphyseal part connected to the elongate stem part and having a concave bearing surface defining an epiphyseal axis, and wherein the epiphyseal axis is offset posteriorly relative to the stem axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Didier Poncet, Cecile Nerot, Didier Capon, Ludwig Seebauer, Anders Ekelund, Lieven De Wilde, Michael Wirth, David Collins, Laurent Lafosse
  • Patent number: 7468835
    Abstract: A microscopy system method for inspecting a retina of an eye including generating an inverted intermediate image of the retina using an ophthalmoscopic lens; detecting a left image of the intermediate image from a left viewing direction and detecting a right image of the intermediate image from a right viewing direction; and displaying an inverted representation of the detected left image to a right eye of a user and displaying an inverted representation of the detected right image to a left eye of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Surgical GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Luecke, Alfons Abele, Dirk Brunner, Frank Rudolph, Fritz Straehle, Joachim Steffen, Michael Wirth