Patents by Inventor Peter Staneker

Peter Staneker 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: 20220104900
    Abstract: An endoscopic instrument having an instrument body configured in a long, slim and flexible manner. The instrument may be completely or partly wound in one or more windings that allows the instrument to be packed in a space-saving and easy-to-handle manner. To keep the instrument body in this position, a holding device is provided that is arranged on the instrument body and is preferably undetachably held there. The holding device has a gripper rotatably supported around the instrument body. The instrument body has a latch to hold and fasten the windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Walz, Fabian Beutler, Peter Staneker
  • Patent number: 10751106
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrosurgical instrument, especially for argon plasma coagulation, with a handle (10), an outer shaft (12) that surrounds an electrode and/or an inner shaft (11, 111) and is held in the handle (10), and an actuation mechanism (13) on the handle (10) to move the outer shaft (12) in the axial direction relative to the electrode/to the inner shaft (11, 111). The invention is characterized in that the inner shaft and/or the electrode (11, 111) are mechanically connected with one another in a distal end area (65) of the outer shaft (12) in such a way that the inner shaft and/or the electrode (11, 111) can be bent by moving the outer shaft (12) relative to the inner shaft and/or to the electrode (11, 111).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Staneker, Thorsten Rombach, Udo Kirstgen
  • Publication number: 20160331438
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrosurgical instrument, especially for argon plasma coagulation, with a handle (10), an outer shaft (12) that surrounds an electrode and/or an inner shaft (11, 111) and is held in the handle (10), and an actuation mechanism (13) on the handle (10) to move the outer shaft (12) in the axial direction relative to the electrode/to the inner shaft (11, 111). The invention is characterized in that the inner shaft and/or the electrode (11, 111) are mechanically connected with one another in a distal end area (65) of the outer shaft (12) in such a way that the inner shaft and/or the electrode (11, 111) can be bent by moving the outer shaft (12) relative to the inner shaft and/or to the electrode (11, 111).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Staneker, Thorsten Rombach, Udo Kirstgen
  • Patent number: 6937774
    Abstract: A method increases the spatial resolution of a source image based on an auxiliary, co-registered image of a higher spatial resolution. Each of the source and auxiliary images includes a plurality of pixels with corresponding spectral intensities and the method includes reducing, identifying, deriving, subdividing and modifying steps. Multiple auxiliary images can be used with the method. In the reducing step, a spatial resolution of the auxiliary image is reduced to a common resolution with the source image. Then in the identifying step, corresponding groups of pixels at the common resolution in the source and auxiliary images are identified. Then in the deriving step, a mapping function is derived which relates the rate of change of intensity of each group in the auxiliary image and the corresponding rate of change of intensity in the corresponding group in the source image to the intensity vector. This map can be conditioned on any number of auxiliary image planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Francis Specht, Peter Stanek, Robert Marc Drake