Patents by Inventor Olaf Schermeier
Olaf Schermeier 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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Patent number: 11547515Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile selection system for selecting medical accessories comprising a control system, a user interface and a treatment cart. The treatment cart comprises a plurality of storage devices each having at least two storage areas for a respective accessory type. The control system thereby implements a selection method having the following method steps. The treatment identifier of the treatment to be performed is determined in one method step via the user interface. In a further method step, a plurality of accessory set parameters which characterize a medical accessory set are determined on the basis of an accessory database and on the basis of the treatment identifier of the treatment to be performed.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Olaf Schermeier, Kirill Koulechov
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Patent number: 11380437Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for selecting a medical accessory for treatment of a patient. The method comprises at least one of the following method steps. A first method step of receiving a patient identifier identifying the patient to be treated. A second method step of determining a treatment identifier of the treatment to be performed which identifies the treatment to be performed on the patient. A third method step of comparing an accessory database containing data sets on at least two medical accessories for one or more patient treatments to an actual inventory of stocked medical accessories. A fourth method step of selecting a suitable medical accessory for a treatment to be performed on the patient by means of the accessory database and on the basis of at least the patient identifier, the treatment identifier and the actual inventory. A fifth method step of segregating the selected medical accessory.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Olaf Schermeier, Kirill Koulechov
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Publication number: 20220130527Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for executing a sharing enabler of a registered medical treatment machine. The registered medical treatment machine is used in a shared medical treatment system. The method comprises the method steps: Providing a registration procedure for registering the medical treatment machine in the shared medical treatment system; Receiving an initiation request for initiating a medical treatment for a patient, being registered in the shared medical treatment system; Checking whether the received initiation request is valid by receiving a confirmation signal and if yes: Unlocking the medical treatment machine in reply to the received confirmation signal for use for the patient; Operating the medical treatment machine according to a treatment procedure in a sharing mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Christina I. Allegrini, Harvey Cohen, John Viero, Kirill Koulechov, Maria Millan-Galante, Matthew Buraczenski, Michael Thorwarth, Paul von Buenau, Shashikant Dattatraya Kalaskar, Stephen A. Merchant, Thomas Stahl, Thorsten Timm, Nina Muellers, Klaus Wolf, Erik Schumacher, Olaf Schermeier, Zdenek Cerman, Christopher Hauke
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Publication number: 20220130508Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing dialysis. In one aspect, a dialysis hub receives a request to use a dialysis machine. The dialysis hub transmits a list of available dialysis machines.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Stephen A. Merchant, Olaf Schermeier, Kirill Koulechov, Zdenek Cerman, Christopher Hauke
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Patent number: 11133097Abstract: The invention concerns a medical treatment system (1), comprising: a medical treatment device (10), wherein the medical treatment device comprises input means (11) for selecting a treatment, wherein the medical treatment device comprises a device (12) for generating a patient-related and a treatment-related request code, wherein the request code is presented (13) on the medical treatment device (10), a therapy-enabling device (20), wherein the therapy-enabling device (20) comprises a device (21) for receiving request code data, wherein the therapy-enabling device (20) furthermore comprises an enabling code generating device (22) which, as a function of a received request code and stored data (DB), decides whether an enabling code will be generated and sends the generated request code (23), wherein the medical treatment device (10) furthermore comprises means for entering an enabling code (11, 14), wherein the medical treatment device (10) decides, at least as a function of the enabling code and optionallyType: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbHInventors: Olaf Schermeier, Kirill Koulechov, Peter Eifler
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Patent number: 10617835Abstract: A breathing gas-carrying patient connection (2) for the artificial respiration of a patient (1) by an anesthesia apparatus or respirator (3) with one or more sensors (9, 10, 11) for detecting patient-relevant measured variables and with a telemetric transmission of the sensor data from the patient connection (2) to a machine-side connection element (13) for the patient connection (2), wherein the telemetric transmission of the sensor data is designed for wireless bidirectional communication between the patient connection (2) and the connection element (13), makes possible the reliable transmission of data into the machine-side connection element (13).Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: DRÄGERWERK AG & CO. KGAAInventors: Olaf Schermeier, Götz Kullik
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Publication number: 20190392949Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for selecting a medical accessory for treatment of a patient. The method comprises at least one of the following method steps. A first method step of receiving a patient identifier identifying the patient to be treated. A second method step of determining a treatment identifier of the treatment to be performed which identifies the treatment to be performed on the patient. A third method step of comparing an accessory database containing data sets on at least two medical accessories for one or more patient treatments to an actual inventory of stocked medical accessories. A fourth method step of selecting a suitable medical accessory for a treatment to be performed on the patient by means of the accessory database and on the basis of at least the patient identifier, the treatment identifier and the actual inventory. A fifth method step of segregating the selected medical accessory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Olaf SCHERMEIER, Kirill KOULECHOV
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Publication number: 20190392947Abstract: The invention relates to a pick-and-place system for the equipping of medical accessory holders, in particular medical accessory boxes, for a patient treatment. The pick-and-place system comprises a storage apparatus for a plurality of medical accessories of at least two types, a separating apparatus for medical accessories and an assembling area for a medical accessory holder. The pick-and-place system furthermore comprises an accessory database for data sets on the plurality of medical accessories and in respect of one or more patient treatments as well as a data storage apparatus for the accessory database designed to store the accessory database. The pick-and-place system furthermore comprises one or more data interfaces, wherein at least one of the data interfaces is designed to receive one or more selection parameters, in particular treatment data or patient data, relative to the treatment of the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Olaf SCHERMEIER, Kirill KOULECHOV
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Publication number: 20190388171Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile selection system for selecting medical accessories comprising a control system, a user interface and a treatment cart. The treatment cart comprises a plurality of storage devices each having at least two storage areas for a respective accessory type. The control system thereby implements a selection method having the following method steps. The treatment identifier of the treatment to be performed is determined in one method step via the user interface. In a further method step, a plurality of accessory set parameters which characterize a medical accessory set are determined on the basis of an accessory database and on the basis of the treatment identifier of the treatment to be performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Olaf SCHERMEIER, Kirill KOULECHOV
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Publication number: 20190336674Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the automatic deaerating and filling of a catheter connected to a blood vessel of a patient with blood, in particular in preparation for hemodialysis, and in particularly by means of a cannulation robot. The invention implements this in particular by the deaerating and filling of a fluid channel fluidly connected to the catheter by means of a deaeration device, by the detecting of the deaerating and/or filling of the fluid channel by a sensor device which generates a measurement signal containing information on the deaerating and/or filling of the fluid channel, and by the controlling of the deaeration device as a function of the measure-ment signal by means of a control device with electrical circuitry so as to achieve the automated deaerating and/or filling of the fluid channel and the catheter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Olaf SCHERMEIER, Kirill KOULECHOV
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Publication number: 20190244703Abstract: The invention concerns a medical treatment system (1), comprising: a medical treatment device (10), wherein the medical treatment device comprises input means (11) for selecting a treatment, wherein the medical treatment device comprises a device (12) for generating a patient-related and a treatment-related request code, wherein the request code is presented (13) on the medical treatment device (10), a therapy-enabling device (20), wherein the therapy-enabling device (20) comprises a device (21) for receiving request code data, wherein the therapy-enabling device (20) furthermore comprises an enabling code generating device (22) which, as a function of a received request code and stored data (DB), decides whether an enabling code will be generated and sends the generated request code (23), wherein the medical treatment device (10) furthermore comprises means for entering an enabling code (11, 14), wherein the medical treatment device (10) decides, at least as a function of the enabling code and optionallyType: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Olaf SCHERMEIER, Kirill KOULECHOV, Peter EIFLER
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Publication number: 20170106156Abstract: A breathing gas-carrying patient connection (2) for the artificial respiration of a patient (1) by an anesthesia apparatus or respirator (3) with one or more sensors (9, 10, 11) for detecting patient-relevant measured variables and with a telemetric transmission of the sensor data from the patient connection (2) to a machine-side connection element (13) for the patient connection (2), wherein the telemetric transmission of the sensor data is designed for wireless bidirectional communication between the patient connection (2) and the connection element (13), makes possible the reliable transmission of data into the machine-side connection element (13).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: Olaf SCHERMEIER, Götz KULLIK
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Patent number: 9393373Abstract: A process and system are provided for transmitting monitoring states between respirators. The process includes the detection of and recording of monitoring states of a monitoring unit (5) of at least a first monitoring period (10) of a first respirator (2). There is an assignment of an identification to the monitoring states of the monitoring unit (5) of the at least first monitoring period (10) of the first respirator (2). There is a transmission of the monitoring states of the monitoring unit (5) of the at least first monitoring period (10) of the first respirator (2) to a second respirator (3). This is followed by a setting of the monitoring unit (5) of the second respirator (3) corresponding to the transmitted monitoring states of the monitoring unit (5) of the at least first monitoring period (10) of the first respirator (2). This is then followed by a repetition of steps for the monitoring states of the monitoring unit (5) of each additional monitoring period (10) of the first respirator (2).Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2008Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Drëgerwerk AG & Co. KGaA.Inventors: Olaf Schermeier, Ralf Heesch, Jennifer Lünse, Robert Schmid
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Patent number: 9089664Abstract: A medical device has a fluid port (2), a tube (20), a socket (4), which can be connected to the fluid port and to the tube with freely selectable rotation positions. The tube is provided with a transponder (22) and with a writing and reading device for communication with the transponder, which has an antenna (24) in the area of the fluid port. The socket is provided with a coil (5, 6) each, whose axis of rotation is directed essentially coaxially to the axis of rotation about which the relative rotation position of the socket is variable. The two coils are connected by electric lines (8), to which at least one capacitor (9) is connected as a circuit component. The coils, the electric lines and the circuit component form an electric oscillatory circuit for transmitting signals between the writing and reading device and the transponder.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Olaf Schermeier, Gerd Wotha, Markus Steeger, Ludger Tappehorn
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Patent number: 8739778Abstract: A breathing tube connecting device is provided for connecting a breathing tube to at least two respirators. The breathing tube connecting device includes a base body with a breathing gas through duct embodied in the base body, a jacket body, which can be meshed with the base body in a positive-locking manner and thus encloses at least a part of the base body in a coaxial manner, and a transponder. The transponder is provided between the base body and the jacket body. The breathing gas through duct and the jacket body are embodied at least partly as a coupling section for a selective connection of the breathing tube to one of the at least two respirators.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2007Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Ludger Tappehorn, Olaf Schermeier, Gerd Wotha, Klaus Abraham
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Patent number: 8677994Abstract: A multipart medical engineering system, which comprises at least two components that can be connected via positioning-determining connection feature (410, 411). At least one component (44) is intended to remain in the vicinity of the patient in the connected and unconnected states of the system and at least one component (41) can be removed or replaced with other components in the unconnected state. The component (44) intended to remain in the vicinity of the patient contains a data storage element (45) that can be written to and read via an interface (46) that is mechanically integrated in the position-determining connection means (410, 411).Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2006Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Olaf Schermeier, Frank Ziermann
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Patent number: 8567389Abstract: An anesthesia system is provided including an anesthesia apparatus, an anesthetic dispenser with an anesthetic reservoir, at least one dispensing parameter detection means, a contactless interface between the anesthesia apparatus and the anesthetic dispenser for transmitting data, especially the dispensing parameters, and for supplying the at least one dispensing parameter detection means with energy. The data and energy transmission takes place by means of electromagnetic field forces.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2008Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Götz Kullik, Olaf Schermeier, Wolfgang Falb, Ernst-Günther Scharmer
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Patent number: 8547231Abstract: The invention relates to a medical system (1) with a monitoring station (3) and at least one medical work station (5, 7). The medical work station (5, 7) is designed to gather physiological data of a patient (4). The invention is characterized in that the at least one medical work station (5, 7) comprises a respiratory device (43, 60) with a connection (49, 51, 72, 74) for a respiratory hose (53, 57). The medical work station (5, 7) comprises a radio frequency detection unit (45, 68), which is designed for detecting a radio frequency marking (55) connected with a respiratory hose in the region of the connection for a respiratory hose, and to create a marking signal, representing the marking information. The medical system (1) is designed to associated the physiological data and the patient data, particularly the data set representing the physiological data and the patient data set, with each other, as a function of the marking signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Drager Medical GmbHInventors: Olaf Schermeier, Gerd Wotha, Andreas Otto
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Patent number: 8518025Abstract: A system is provided for clearing modes of operation on a multicomponent medical instrument with a basic instrument (1) and at least one connectable accessory instrument (4) for the basic instrument (1). The accessory instrument (4) is equipped with a wireless, readable data memory (2) for modes of operation of the medical instrument and the basic instrument (1) has a reading unit (3) for the data memory (2). The reading unit (3), when the accessory instrument (4) is connected, reaches a sending/receiving range for reading out the data.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Olaf Schermeier, Marita Kalfke, Andreas Otto, Gerd Wotha
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Patent number: 8496001Abstract: A process and a device/system are provided for the automatic identification of the type of a breathing tube. A memory element (5) is connected to the breathing tube (4). The memory element carries stored data identifying the breathing tube (4). The data are read by a reading unit (6), which is part of a respirator (1). The data may be read when the breathing tube (4) is brought into the vicinity of the respirator (1) or connected thereto.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2006Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Dräger Medical GmbHInventors: Olaf Schermeier, Heiko Lokotsch, Axinja Schoenbeck, Michael Wilkening