Patents by Inventor Jürgen Wegmann
Jürgen Wegmann 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: 9642667Abstract: A surgical system that connects biological tissue includes a) a surgical instrument with two tool elements movable in relation to one another and in each case including an electrode, which electrodes, in a coming-together position of the tool elements preferably define a minimum distance from one another, lie opposite one another and face one another, and b) a medically compatible material assisting connection of the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2011Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Aesculap AGInventors: Dieter Weisshaupt, Christoph Rothweiler, Jürgen Wegmann, Bernd Blender
-
Patent number: 9370604Abstract: A planar implant for replacement of biological tissues includes a layered structure including a) a lyophilized pericardium layer of biological origin, and b) at least one sponge-like layer of lyophilized extracellular protein.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2008Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Aesculap AGInventors: Erich Odermatt, Juergen Wegmann, Bernd Blender
-
Publication number: 20140303664Abstract: The present application relates to an atraumatic sternal plate for haemostasis for a retractor with a pressure plate and a retaining device attached to the pressure plate. The pressure plate can be attached, by means of the retaining device, to either the blades of a retractor or to a sternal half of the patient, so that the pressure plate abuts the sagittal incision surface of a sternal half when spreading the sternum of a patient by means of a retractor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: AESCULAP AGInventors: Thomas Beck, Bernd Blender, Andreas Elisch, Theodor Lutze, Pedro Morales, Robert Vogtherr, Jürgen Wegmann, Dieter Weisshaupt
-
Patent number: 8460703Abstract: A composition for the adhesive bonding and/or fixing of biological and/or synthetic tissues includes the components: a) a nitrogen-functionalized polysaccharide; and b) a terminally functionalized oligolactone.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2008Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignees: Aesculap AG, Universitat RostockInventors: Erich Odermatt, Jürgen Wegmann, Katrin Sternberg, Detlef Behrend
-
Publication number: 20130090645Abstract: A surgical system that connects biological tissue includes a) a surgical instrument with two tool elements movable in relation to one another and in each case including an electrode, which electrodes, in a coming-together position of the tool elements preferably define a minimum distance from one another, lie opposite one another and face one another, and b) a medically compatible material assisting connection of the tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: Aesculap AGInventors: Dieter Weisshaupt, Christoph Rothweiler, Jürgen Wegmann, Bernd Blender
-
Patent number: 8173722Abstract: An adhesive composition for use in surgical therapy includes at least the following components a) and b): a) a liquid mixture including cyanoactrylate monomers and at least one plasticizer, where the proportion of the at least one plasticizer in component a) is greater than 10% by weight based on the total weight of component a), and b) an aqueous liquid including at least one compound from the group of borate salt, basic amino acid, gelatin and gelatin derivative.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Aesculap AGInventors: Anja Baiker, Claudia Haertel, Erich Odermatt, Gabriel Siedle, Thomas Sterk, Juergen Wegmann
-
Publication number: 20110040323Abstract: The present invention relates to a combination, in particular for the adhesive bonding and/or fixing of biological and/or synthetic tissues, wherein the combination comprises the components a) a nitrogen-functionalized polysaccharide and b) a terminally functionalized oligolactone.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2008Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicants: AESCULAP AG, UNIVERSITÄT ROSTOCKInventors: Erich Odermatt, Jürgen Wegmann, Katrin Sternberg, Detlef Behrend
-
Publication number: 20100010536Abstract: An adhesive composition for use in surgical therapy includes at least the following components a) and b): a) a liquid mixture including cyanoactrylate monomers and at least one plasticizer, where the proportion of the at least one plasticizer in component a) is greater than 10% by weight based on the total weight of component a), and b) an aqueous liquid including at least one compound from the group of borate salt, basic amino acid, gelatin and gelatin derivative.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: AESCULAP AGInventors: Anja Baiker, Claudia Haertel, Erich Odermatt, Gabriel Siedle, Thomas Sterk, Juergen Wegmann
-
Publication number: 20090280162Abstract: A wound dressing including at least one biocompatible support material and at least one polysaccharide as a hemostatic means (hemostyptic) and/or that unites severed regions of body tissue, and having a layered structure of at least one layer of the support material and at least one layer of the polysaccharide.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2007Publication date: November 12, 2009Inventors: Jürgen Wegmann, Erich Odermatt, Bernd Blender
-
Publication number: 20090069767Abstract: A haemostatic device for minimally invasive surgery, especially that performed in the abdominal cavity, is in the form of an absorbent disc made of a biodegradable porous material with a center and a radial extension of at least 10 mm from the center, where the disc is formed in such a way that it can be converted into a radially reduced intermediate state with an essentially rotation-symmetrically shortened radius, in which state it can be introduced into the body through a tube, from which it can be released in the flat form.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: AESCULAP AG, a corporation of GermenyInventors: Erich Odermatt, Juergen Wegmann, Bernd Blender
-
Publication number: 20090054995Abstract: A planar implant for replacement of biological tissues includes a layered structure including a) a lyophilized pericardium layer of biological origin, and b) at least one sponge-like layer of lyophilized extracellular protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2008Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: AESCULAP AG, a corporation of GermanyInventors: Erich Odermatt, Juergen Wegmann, Bernd Blender
-
Publication number: 20070239277Abstract: In an intervertebral implant with at least one contact element having a vertebral body contact face and with a swellable core, which is connected to the contact element on the side remote from the vertebral body contact face, wherein the contact element comprises a support, on one side of which the vertebral body contact face is arranged and which on its other side carries projections surrounded by the material of the core, in order to improve the connection between the core, on one side, and the support, on the other, it is proposed that the projections have elongated, thread-like or rod-like anchoring sections, which extend at a spacing from the support and are freely accessible from all sides.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Applicant: AESCULAP AG & Co. KGInventors: Jens Beger, Juergen Wegmann
-
Publication number: 20060292030Abstract: A novel process for the preparation of sterile polysaccharide solutions from at least one packed, aqueous unsterile dispersion of at least one thermolabile and/or poorly soluble polysaccharide is provided, where the dissolution of the polysaccharide and the sterilization are effected simultaneously by a heat treatment at above 100° C. The invention furthermore relates to a sterile solution of at least one thermolabile and/or poorly soluble polysaccharide.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2006Publication date: December 28, 2006Inventors: Erich Odermatt, Juergen Wegmann
-
Publication number: 20060116696Abstract: The invention relates to a planar implant comprising a planar support with two faces, at least one face of the support being provided with an absorbable adhesive layer which is able to adhere to human or animal tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2004Publication date: June 1, 2006Inventors: Eric Odermatt, Wolfgang Abele, Juergen Wegmann