Biomedical Products

A- Electrically-Controllable Multi-Fingered Resilient Heart Compression Devices. The price for these heart-assist, thoracic and cardiovascular systems starts at $220,000 and they will be delivered within 8 months in collaboration with a heart surgeon.  These devices are based on the following US Patent and CIP : 

1-"Electrically-Controllable Multi-Fingered Resilient Heart Compression Devices”, US Patent Office, Number 6,464,655, Issued October 15, (2002)  

2-"Electrically-Controllable Multi-Fingered Resilient Heart Compression Devices”, US Patent Office, Divisional Application No. 10/244,857, CIP to US Patent Number 6,464,655,, filed September 17, (2002)  

 
B- Ionic Polymeric Distributed Nanosensors, Nanoactuators and Artificial Muscles For Biomedical Applications. These devices are partially based on the following US patent:

1-"Ionic Polymer Sensors and Actuators",  US Patent Office, No.  6, 475,639, Issued November 5, (2002)

2-“Method of Fabricating a Dry Electro-Active Polymeric Synthetic Muscle”, US Patent Office, Patent No. 7,276,090,  Issued October 2, 2007

 

C- Smart Active Bands to Correct the Refractive Errors of the Human Eye. These biomedical products are being developed in collaboration with Ophthalmotronics Corporation (www.ophthalmotronics.com). These bands are based on the following patent:

1-"Surgical Correction of Human Eye Refractive Errors By Active Composite Artificial Muscle Implants, “, US Patent Office, No. 6,511,508, issued January 28th., 2003, also PCT Application No. 2323-00-PCT filed July (2002)

2-"Surgical Correction of Human Eye Refractive Errors By Active Composite Artificial Muscle Implants, “, CIP to US Patent Office, No. 6,511,508, issued January 28th., 2003, Application No. 10/345,583, filed January 16 (2003)

D- Polymeric Muscle-based Diaphragm Pump for Medical Applications in Drug delivery, Glaucoma IOP reduction and Hydrocephalus. These biomedical products are being developed in collaboration with Medipump LLC Incorporated (a New York-based Medical Products company). These technologies are partially based on the following patents:

1-"Method and Apparatus for Controlling Intraocular Pressure",  United States Patent No. 6,168,575, issued January 2, 2001, 

2-"Implantable Micro-Pump Assembly,", US Patent Office No. 6,589,198,  issued July 8, (2003)

3-
"Synthetic Muscle-Based Diaphragm Pump Apparatuses", US Patent Office No. 6,682,500, Issued January 27, 2004

E- Non-SQUID based Magnetic Imaging of the Heart and the Brain by Smart Fiber Optic Magnetometer. These technologies are being developed in collaboration with Magnim, Inc. These technologies are based on the following patent:

1-"Smart Fiber Optic Magnetometer,", US Patent Office, Number 6,433,543, Issued , August 13, (2002)

F- Metal Hydride Artificial Muscles For Biomedical Applications. These technologies are based on the following patent:

1-"Metal Hydride Artificial Muscles", US Patent Office, Number  6,405,532, Issued June 18, 2002

Some of the above technologies initially relied on the following milestone patents:

1-"Electrically Controlled Polymeric Gel Actuators", (world’s first patent on synthetic artificial muscles), Owner : US Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories, US Patent No. 5,250,167, Issued October, 5, (1993)

2-"Spring-Loaded Ionic Polymeric Gel Linear Actuator,", Owner: US Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories, US Patent No. 5,389,222, Issued February 14, (1995)  

3-"Soft Actuators and Artificial Muscles", United States Patent No. 6,109,852, Issued  August 29, (2000)