Patents by Inventor Tobias Jankowski

Tobias Jankowski 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: 20240065802
    Abstract: Marking device (100) for implantation into a tissue (260), having a support structure (102) which is formed by at least one elastic metal wire, is compressible and is self-expanding and which, in an expanded state, encompasses an interior space (104), characterized in that the marking device (100) is designed to transform itself on its own from a compressed state into an expanded state, even against a tissue pressure prevailing at a tissue site to be marked, and the marking device (100) in the expanded state has a hollow, approximately spherical shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: SOMATEX MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk HORNSCHEIDT, Tobias JANKOWSKI
  • Patent number: 11779432
    Abstract: Marking device (100) for implantation into a tissue (260), having a support structure (102) which is formed by at least one elastic metal wire, is compressible and is self-expanding and which, in an expanded state, encompasses an interior space (104), characterized in that the marking device (100) is designed to transform itself on its own from a compressed state into an expanded state, even against a tissue pressure prevailing at a tissue site to be marked, and the marking device (100) in the expanded state has a hollow, approximately spherical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SOMATEX MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Hornscheidt, Tobias Jankowski
  • Publication number: 20220192778
    Abstract: Marking device (100) for implantation into a tissue (260), having a support structure (102) which is formed by at least one elastic metal wire, is compressible and is self-expanding and which, in an expanded state, encompasses an interior space (104), characterized in that the marking device (100) is designed to transform itself on its own from a compressed state into an expanded state, even against a tissue pressure prevailing at a tissue site to be marked, and the marking device (100) in the expanded state has a hollow, approximately spherical shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: SOMATEX MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk HORNSCHEIDT, Tobias JANKOWSKI
  • Patent number: 11191611
    Abstract: Marking device (100) for implantation into a tissue (260), having a support structure (102) which is formed by at least one elastic metal wire, is compressible and is self-expanding and which, in an expanded state, encompasses an interior space (104), characterized in that the marking device (100) is designed to transform itself on its own from a compressed state into an expanded state, even against a tissue pressure prevailing at a tissue site to be marked, and the marking device (100) in the expanded state has a hollow, approximately spherical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SOMATEX MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Hornscheidt, Tobias Jankowski
  • Publication number: 20190201160
    Abstract: Marking device (100) for implantation into a tissue (260), having a support structure (102) which is formed by at least one elastic metal wire, is compressible and is self-expanding and which, in an expanded state, encompasses an interior space (104), characterized in that the marking device (100) is designed to transform itself on its own from a compressed state into an expanded state, even against a tissue pressure prevailing at a tissue site to be marked, and the marking device (100) in the expanded state has a hollow, approximately spherical shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Dirk Hornscheidt, Tobias Jankowski