Patents by Inventor Silvio Blumenthal

Silvio Blumenthal 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: 10575933
    Abstract: A cassette for storage of at least one medical instrument, the cassette including at least one spring sheet, the spring sheet including at least one holding means for retaining the medical instrument therein, the holding means including an aperture forming a passage through the spring sheet for receiving the medical instrument and at least one spring element provided adjacent to the passage for exerting a biasing spring force to retain the medical instrument within the passage, and wherein the spring sheet, including the holding means, is made of a metal or a metal alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: STRAUMANN HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Marianne Berg, Friedhelm Kraft, Silvio Blumenthal
  • Patent number: 10470851
    Abstract: A self-retaining screw assembly comprising a dental secondary component and a screw. The secondary component comprises a through passage having an apical and a coronal open end, and a screw seat located between said apical and coronal ends. The screw comprises a screw rod and a screw head, the screw head being dimensioned to abut against the screw seat and the screw rod being dimensioned to pass unhindered through the through passage such that the apical end of the rod can protrude from the apical end of the through passage. The through passage further comprises, coronal of the screw seat, a first section and, directly coronal of the first section a second section having a narrower diameter than the first section, such that the second section forms a restriction in the through passage. The screw head comprises a radially outwardly extending retaining element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: STRAUMANN HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Stéphane Courvoisier, Silvio Blumenthal
  • Publication number: 20180271632
    Abstract: A cassette for storage of at least one medical instrument, the cassette including at least one spring sheet, the spring sheet including at least one holding means for retaining the medical instrument therein, the holding means including an aperture forming a passage through the spring sheet for receiving the medical instrument and at least one spring element provided adjacent to the passage for exerting a biasing spring force to retain the medical instrument within the passage, and wherein the spring sheet, including the holding means, is made of a metal or a metal alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: STRAUMANN HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Marianne BERG, Friedhelm KRAFT, Silvio BLUMENTHAL
  • Publication number: 20160317254
    Abstract: A self-retaining screw assembly comprising a dental secondary component and a screw. The secondary component comprises a through passage having an apical and a coronal open end, and a screw seat located between said apical and coronal ends. The screw comprises a screw rod and a screw head, the screw head being dimensioned to abut against the screw seat and the screw rod being dimensioned to pass unhindered through the through passage such that the apical end of the rod can protrude from the apical end of the through passage. The through passage further comprises, coronal of the screw seat, a first section and, directly coronal of the first section a second section having a narrower diameter than the first section, such that the second section forms a restriction in the through passage. The screw head comprises a radially outwardly extending retaining element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: STRAUMANN HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Stéphane COURVOISIER, Silvio BLUMENTHAL
  • Publication number: 20130108987
    Abstract: Analog positioner (50) for fitting an analog (14) into place during preoperative planning. The analog positioner (50) includes a holder (10) and at least one intermediate piece (210) for temporarily fixing the analog (14) to the holder (10). The holder (10) has a shaft (16) having a receptacle section (18), to be held in receptacle means of a computer-controlled positioning unit, and, adjoining axially thereto, a positioning section (20) having an attachment unit (22). The receptacle section (18) is arranged at a first holder end and the attachment unit (22) is arranged at a second holder end lying axially opposite the receptacle section (18). The positioning section (20) has a reference element (28).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Silvio Blumenthal, Steffen Kuehne
  • Publication number: 20120189980
    Abstract: Combination of a dental implant and an insertion tool for inserting the dental implant into a bone of a patient. The dental implant includes an anti-rotation means having a non-circular cross-sectional contour with at least one planar force transmission surface in the form of an anti-rotation surface (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d). The insertion tool includes an anti-rotation means having a non-circular cross-sectional contour with at least one planar force transmission surface in the form of a torque transmission surface (11a?, 11a?; 11b?, 11b?; 11c?, 11c?; 11d?, 11d?). One of the anti-rotation means forms a recess (6), and the other forms a bolt (10) having a rotational axis and designed to be received in the direction of the rotational axis in the recess (6), such that the at least one anti-rotation surface and at least one torque transmission surface can cooperate to transmit torque between the parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Steffen Kuehne, Silvio Blumenthal
  • Patent number: D1031040
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Institut Straumann AG
    Inventor: Silvio Blumenthal