Patents by Inventor Rolf Udo Dieter Kobs

Rolf Udo Dieter Kobs 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).

  • Method and apparatus for intravascular localization and imaging without X-rays
    Patent number: 6813512
    Abstract: A device for determining the position of a medical instrument that is introduced into an object to be examined is also used for imaging the vicinity of the medical instrument. In order to enable the acquisition of instantaneous position information and image information from the vicinity of the medical instrument for all kinds of medical instruments, a localization device that is arranged in the end zone of the medical instrument that is to be introduced determines the position of the medical instrument within the object to be examined; at the same time image information is acquired in the vicinity of the medical instrument by an image acquisition device that is arranged on the medical instrument and on the basis of the position thus determined the position of the medical instrument (3) is reproduced in a survey image of the object to be examined and images of the vicinity of the object to be examined are displayed on the basis of the image information acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V.
    Inventors: Bernd Aldefeld, Friedrich-Karl Beckmann, Holger Eggers, Rolf Udo Dieter Kobs, Erhard Paul Artur Klotz, Michael Harald Kuhn, Dirk Manke, Volker Rasche, Georg Weidinger
  • Method for intravascular localization and imaging without X-rays
    Publication number: 20020077546
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for determining the position of a medical instrument (3) that is introduced into an object (1) to be examined and for imaging the vicinity of the medical instrument (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Bernd Aldefeld, Friedrich-Karl Beckmann, Holger Eggers, Rolf Udo Dieter Kobs, Erhard Paul Artur Klotz, Michael Harald Kuhn, Dirk Manke, Volker Rasche, Georg Weidinger