Patents by Inventor Michel Joseph Emile Vix

Michel Joseph Emile Vix 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).

  • Patent number: 7967746
    Abstract: A rectoscope has a tube and a handle protruding therefrom. A number of light-emitting elements are arranged circumferentially distributed at the distal end of the tube. The tube includes an inner pipe, an outer pipe and an annular body at the distal ends of the inner and outer pipe. The annular body includes an end ring provided with bores for receiving the light-emitting elements. The annular body also includes an annular flange extending away proximally and having an outside diameter corresponding to a clear inside diameter of the outer pipe. The end ring has an outside diameter corresponding approximately to an outside diameter of the outer pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joel Jules Louis Leroy, Jacques Francois Bernard Marescaux, Didier Raoul Daniel Mutter, Michel Joseph Emile Vix
  • Patent number: 7955292
    Abstract: The invention relates to an endosurgical extraction bag for collecting body tissue or body fluid, with a bag main part formed from a flexible envelope, and with a first admission opening for introducing tissue or fluid into the bag main part of the bag. Arranged in the bag main part, there is an inner envelope which is connected to the main part (bag) and opens toward the first admission opening, but adjoins the bag main part sealingly in respect of the first admission opening, and which has a second admission opening at its second end remote from the first admission opening and spaced apart from an end of the bag main part remote from the first admission opening, through which second admission opening the tissue or fluid can be introduced into the bag main part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: MTP Medical Technical Promotion GmbH
    Inventors: Joel Jules Louis Leroy, Jacques Francois Bernard Marescaux, Didier Raoul Daniel Mutter, Michel Joseph Emile Vix