Patents by Inventor Michel A. Pontari

Michel A. Pontari 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).

  • Implantable telemetric monitoring system, apparatus, and method
    Patent number: 7101343
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for telemetrically monitoring parameters within a body of an animal such as a within a urinary bladder of a human. The system includes an implantable device configured for insertion within the body and an external device for use external to the body. The implantable device senses and stores one or more bodily parameters and transmits the stored bodily parameters for receipt by the external device responsive to receipt of a parameter transfer signal. The external device communicates with the implantable device, generates the parameter transfer signal, and receives the bodily parameters transmitted by the implantable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Z. Joan Delalic, Michael R. Ruggieri, Sr., Michel A. Pontari, Bujjibabu Godavarthi
  • Implantable telemetric monitoring system, apparatus, and method
    Publication number: 20050096562
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for telemetrically monitoring parameters within a body of an animal such as a within a urinary bladder of a human. The system includes an implantable device configured for insertion within the body and an external device for use external to the body. The implantable device senses and stores one or more bodily parameters and transmits the stored bodily parameters for receipt by the external device responsive to receipt of a parameter transfer signal. The external device communicates with the implantable device, generates the parameter transfer signal, and receives the bodily parameters transmitted by the implantable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Z. Delalic, Michael Ruggieri, Michel Pontari, Bujjibabu Godavarthi
  • Method for treating chronic prostatitis or chronic pelvic pain syndrome
    Patent number: 6403640
    Abstract: The use of a COX-2 selective inhibitor for the treatment of chronic prostatitis or chronic pelvic pain syndrome is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignees: Merck & Co., Inc., Temple University of the Commonwealth of Higher Ed.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Stoner, Joanne Waldstreicher, Curtis J. Nickel, Michel A. Pontari