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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D682068 | Ergonomic handgrip | 05/14/2013 |
| 8431169 | Nutraceutical composition and methods of use A method of treatment for cartilage degradation in an organism, which includes administering to an organism a composition including a therapeutic amount of an extract from the plant Biota orientalis. Several key components of the extract of Biota orientali... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8428721 | Adapter, adapter retail unit and system of the adapter, an implantable medical electronic device and an electrode line An adapter for temporary sterile electric connection of an implantable medical electronic device to an electrode line that is to be connected to the implantable medical electronic device during implantation for undistorted transmission of measured values detectable ... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8428528 | Radio communications system designed for a low-power receiver The invention relates to methods by which radio signals can be transmitted to, and received by, a radio receiver such that the receiver consumes very little power from a battery or energy source. The invention also relates to methods by which radio signals, modulate... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8423205 | Control device for communication with a medical implant and a machine A safety system comprising an implant, a control device, and a machine. The machine has a control unit which is designed to allow operation of the machine only when a unique identifier has been received, and to set an operating mode of the machine as a function of t... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8423138 | Implantable device for transmitting therapeutic and diagnostic signals An implantable medical device configured to connect to function conductor(s) to transmit therapeutic signals or diagnostic signals or both. Includes a controllable voltage/current source or adjustable terminating impedance for the function conductor and a control un... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8423135 | MRT-adjusted IEGM-scanning A device and a method for working with electromagnetic fields, specifically those fields that occur in image-guided nuclear spin tomography examinations (MRT or MRI). More precisely, the invention concerns an at least partially implanted medical device (IMD) that pe... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8423133 | Switched protective device against electromagnetic interference A device and a method for working in the presence of electromagnetic fields, in particular fields occurring in magnetic resonance tomography (referred to below as “MRT” or “MRI”) imaging devices. More precisely, the invention relates to a medical device (MD)... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8419645 | Respiration measurement by means of morphological operators An implantable medical device that measures respiration parameters based on transthoracic impedance signals, and converts transthoracic impedance signals into a time series of digital values which is filtered with morphological operators to separate the signal into ... | 04/16/2013 |
| D679975 | Knife | 04/16/2013 |
| 8401336 | System and method for rapid image sequence depth enhancement with augmented computer-generated elements Motion picture scenes to be colorized/depth enhanced (2D->3D) are broken into separate elements, backgrounds/sets or motion/onscreen-action. Background and motion elements are combined into composite frame which becomes a visual reference database that includes data... | 03/19/2013 |
| D678029 | Knife | 03/19/2013 |
| D677943 | Shelf | 03/19/2013 |
| 8396328 | Minimal artifact image sequence depth enhancement system and method Motion picture scenes to be colorized/depth enhanced (2D->3D) are broken into separate elements, backgrounds/sets or motion/onscreen-action. Background and motion elements are combined into composite frame which becomes a visual reference database that includes data... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8394029 | Night respiration rate for heart failure monitoring The invention refers to a monitoring device for monitoring and analyzing physiological signals. The monitoring device comprises a transthoracic impedance measurement unit and an evaluation unit connected to the transthoracic impedance measurement unit. The transthor... | 03/12/2013 |
| D677551 | Folding knife | 03/12/2013 |
| 8386057 | Electrode catheter for interventional use An electrode for interventional purposes, such as a cardiac pacemaker, neurostimulation, or ICD electrode, comprises an elongate electrode body (6), at least one electrode pole (5) in the area of the distal end (4) of the electrode body (6 | 02/26/2013 |
| 8385684 | System and method for minimal iteration workflow for image sequence depth enhancement Movies to be colorized/depth enhanced (2D->3D) are broken into backgrounds/sets or motion/onscreen-action. Background and motion elements are combined into composite frame which becomes a visual reference database that includes data for all frame offsets used later ... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8381935 | Cup lid with integrated container Cup lid with integrated container(s) that couples with the top of a cup. The cup and cup lid form at least two containment volumes, Embodiments enable easy containment, inclusion of fresh food, transportation and access of solid or liquid in the container and cup wi... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8381501 | Agricultural robot system and method An agricultural robot system and method of harvesting, pruning, culling, weeding, measuring and managing of agricultural crops. Uses autonomous and semi-autonomous robot(s) comprising machine-vision using cameras that identify and locate the fruit on each tree, poin... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8380322 | Electrode device for active medical implants Electrode device for active medical implants with an elongated electrode body (2) having a proximal end and a distal end (1), a tip contact pole (6) on the distal end (1), at least one ring contact pole (5) before the distal end ( | 02/19/2013 |
| 8380307 | Switch polarity pacing to improve cardiac resynchronization therapy The invention is directed to a heart stimulator for left-ventricular pacing comprising a left ventricular stimulation pulse generator connected or connectable to a single electrode lead for left ventricular stimulation having one or more electrodes for delivery of s... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8372326 | Pressure compensated non-clogging drip emitter A drip emitter that utilizes one or more filters and one or more labyrinths wherein the labyrinth couples the filter(s) to one or more water retainment valves that leads to at least one pool. Prevents clogging by eliminating air into the labyrinth via a water retain... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8359122 | Autonomous personal service robot Autonomous personal service robot to monitor its owner for symptoms of distress and provide assistance. The system may include sensors to detect situations before they affect people such as smoke, heat, temperature and carbon monoxide sensors. The system can provide... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8355781 | Biventricular heart stimulator An implantable heart stimulator (10), which has a right-atrial sensing unit (62), which is connected or is to be connected to a right-atrial electrode for recording electrical potentials of the myocardium of a right atrium, and is implemented to proces... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8346371 | Electrode unit for carrying current or voltage between an implantable electromedical device and a treatment and/or diagnosis site in the human body An electrode unit for carrying current or voltage between an implantable electromedical device and a treatment and/or diagnosis site in the human body comprises at least one current-/voltage-carrying feed line (1) and at least one electric contact pole to the... | 01/01/2013 |
| D673654 | Set of valve covers with coil brackets | 01/01/2013 |
| 8336463 | Zipline trolley system A zipline trolley system comprises a cable, trolley, launcher, and a catch block. The launcher is fixed on the cable and comprises a substantially cylindrical inner body with a rigid outer body adapted to rotate about the inner body. A return spring attaches the inn... | 12/25/2012 |
| D672842 | Knife | 12/18/2012 |
| D672841 | Knife | 12/18/2012 |
| 8323274 | Ablation catheter arrangement and cooling control An apparatus for cooling ablation catheters via a coolant pump and liquid cooling medium controlled by a controller based on a characteristic state for an activity of a catheter and in addition a system that uses the apparatus for ablation of tissue in a human or an... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8323193 | Implantable biosensor and sensor arrangement An implantable biosensor, which comprises a measuring (or first) chamber filled with the test fluid, which is able to convert a change of the concentration of a predetermined analyte or ion type into a change of a physical variable. To this end, the measuring chambe... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8321001 | Implantable P-wave dispersion detector An electromedical implant, having a far-field electrocardiogram capturing unit for recording a far-field electrocardiogram signal, which is connected or can be connected to at least two electrodes for recording electric signals reflecting the curve of t... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8315708 | Patient device for bidirectional data communication with an implant A patient device (PD) for wireless data communication with an implant. The PD can be at least in an unpaired state or a paired state. In the paired state the PD is paired to a specific implant specified by an implant's identification code (IIC). The IIC is stored in... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8315694 | Method and apparatus for ectopic beat detection Heart monitor for detecting ectopic beats in an input electrocardiogram signal that includes an electrocardiogram signal input and a morphological signal analyzer connected to the electrocardiogram signal input, the analyzer being adapted to generate a first time se... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8313052 | Powder mixture for manufacture of a battery electrode, a respective battery electrode and a method for manufacturing same A method for manufacturing of a powder mixture for a battery electrode that includes suspending of particles of at least one binder within an inert solvent producing a first suspension, slowly suspending of particles of an active material within the first suspension... | 11/20/2012 |
| D669632 | Dual hair comb | 10/23/2012 |
| 8271104 | Method and system for dynamic optimisation of industrial processes Enables minimization of steady-state objective function P(z∞), subject to a set of constraints zmin≦z∞≦zmax, and under the assumption that the values of the state vector, z, at different points in time related via a model expressed in dynamic open equation f... | 09/18/2012 |
| 8271092 | Swallowing stimulation system A swallowing stimulation system has a swallowing stimulator for use in triggering an act of swallowing in a patient. The swallowing system has an operating unit including operating elements for receiving user inputs, whereby the operating elements are allocated to d... | 09/18/2012 |
| 8265741 | Technique for determining signal quality in a physiologic sensing system using high frequency sampling A medical device for processing physiological signals such as electrocardiograms. The processing includes: sampling a physiologic signal in a first channel with a first sampling rate, simultaneously sampling the physiologic signal in a second channel with a higher s... | 09/11/2012 |
