Patents by Inventor Piergiorgio Tozzi

Piergiorgio Tozzi 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).

  • Artificial contractile tissue
    Publication number: 20050020871
    Abstract: An artificial contractile tissue and a cardiac assist device and method, in which a spatial arrangement of contractile elements defining a three-dimensions contractile web is driven in a reversible contraction in order to determine a controlled contraction of the web in at least one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Piergiorgio Tozzi, Ludwig Von Segesser
  • Apparatus and method for improved sutureless anastomosis
    Patent number: 5916226
    Abstract: A device and procedure for suturless and wall-eversion free vascular and ducts anastomosis. The device comprises first and second annular emiprotheses formed to embrace and hold the ends of a pair of vessels or ducts. The emiprotheses are connected so that the vessel or ducts ends have a maximum exposure to blood in their interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Inventor: Piergiorgio Tozzi