Patents by Inventor Alexander Frank
Alexander Frank 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).
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Publication number: 20240136912Abstract: A power converter for an onboard electrical system of a vehicle which can be electrically driven, has a first line for a first potential, a second line for a second potential which differs from the first potential, and a third line for a reference potential which lies between the first potential and the second potential. A filter device has a first capacitor and a second capacitor and is designed to establish a first electrically conductive connection between the first line and the third line via the first capacitor and an electrically conductive connection between the second line and the third line via the second capacitor on the basis of control information and sever the electrically conductive connections along at least one current direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbHInventors: Guido RASEK, Alexander BUCHER, Georgios LEMPIDIS, Maximilian Frank GERNER
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Publication number: 20240104171Abstract: Techniques for collecting, synchronizing, and displaying various types of data relating to a road segment enable, via one or more local or remote processors, servers, transceivers, and/or sensors, (i) enhanced and contextualized analysis of vehicle events by way of synchronizing different data types, relating to a monitored road segment, collected via various different types of data sources; (ii) enhanced and contextualized analysis of filed insurance claims pertaining to a vehicle incident at a road segment; (iii) advantageous machine learning techniques for predicting a level of risk assumed for a given vehicle event or a given road segment; (iv) techniques for accounting for region-specific driver profiles when controlling autonomous vehicles; and/or (v) improved techniques for providing a GUI to display collected data in a meaningful and contextualized manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Alexander Cardona, Kip Wilson, David Frank, Phillip Michael Wilkowski, Nolan White
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Patent number: 11938806Abstract: The invention is related to an integrated drive system including an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, an inverter configured to control the electric motor, a gearbox configured to transmit a torque provided by the electric motor, and a coolant system, wherein the coolant system includes a cooling fluid, configured to follow one cooling path for cooling the inverter, the rotor, the stator and the gearbox.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBHInventors: Christian Finger-Albert, Alexander Frank
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Publication number: 20240096842Abstract: A method for fabricating a SiC power semiconductor device includes: providing a SiC power semiconductor die; depositing a metallization layer over the power semiconductor die, the metallization layer including a first metal; arranging the power semiconductor die over a die carrier such that the metallization layer faces the die carrier, the die carrier being at least partially covered by a plating that includes Ni; and diffusion soldering the power semiconductor die to the die carrier such that a first intermetallic compound is formed between the power semiconductor die and the plating, the first intermetallic compound including Ni3Sn4.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Ralf Otremba, Gregor Langer, Paul Frank, Alexander Heinrich, Alexandra Ludsteck-Pechloff, Daniel Pedone
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Patent number: 11932693Abstract: The present disclosure relates to antibodies having the ability to bind to the immune checkpoint protein programmed death-1 (PD-1), such as human PD-1, or nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, wherein the antibodies comprise modifications in the Fc region eliminating or reducing a Fc-mediated effector function of the antibodies. The present disclosure also relates to compositions or kits comprising said antibodies or nucleic acids, as well as to the use of these antibodies or nucleic acids or compositions in the field of medicine, preferably in the field of immunotherapy, e.g., for the treatment of cancers. The present invention further relates to methods for inducing an immune response in a subject comprising providing to the subject an antibody of the present disclosure or one or more nucleic acids encoding such an antibody, or a composition comprising said antibody or nucleic acids.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: BioNTech SE, Genmab A/SInventors: Ugur Sahin, Sina Fellermeier-Kopf, Friederike Gieseke, Karsten Beckmann, Claudia Paulmann, Alexander Muik, Ivan Kuzmanov, Esther Cornelia Wilhelmina Breij, Patricia Garrido Castro, Jordan Blum, Lars Guelen, Joost Neijssen, Bart-Jan De Kreuk, Richard Hibbert, Janine Schuurman, Aran Frank Labrijn
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Patent number: 11933643Abstract: An inductive angle measuring device includes a scanning element and a scale element having scale tracks. First and third scale tracks have an equal first number of scale structures, and a second scale track has a different number of scale structures. The scale tracks are arranged circumferentially and concentrically about an axis, such that the first scale track is located radially inwardly, the second scale track is located radially between the first scale track and the third scale track, and the third scale track is located radially outwardly. The scanning element includes receiver conductors by which the signals having angle-related signal periods can be generated. The first signal period is equal to the third signal period. An overall signal can be generated from the first signal and the third signal and can be combined with the second signal for determining absolute angle position information.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBHInventors: Marc Oliver Tiemann, Martin Heumann, Alexander Frank
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Publication number: 20240070888Abstract: A system is provided for automatic identification and annotation of objects in a point cloud in real time. The system can automatically annotate a point cloud that identifies coordinates of objects in three-dimensional space while data is being collected for the point cloud. The system can train models of physical objects based on training data, and apply the models to point clouds that are generated by various point cloud generating devices to annotate the points in the point clouds with object identifiers. The solution of automatically annotated point cloud can be used for various applications, such as blueprints, map navigation, and determination of robotic movement in a warehouse.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Christopher Frank Eckman, Alexander Ming Zhang
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Publication number: 20240025588Abstract: A handling device for a filling of one or several product-receiving containers (12) with products (14) includes at least one feeding unit (16) for a feeding of the products (14), further includes at least one handling unit (18) for a handling of the products (14), and includes at least one alignment unit (20), which is configured for an alignment, at least with respect to a vertical plane (22), of the products (14) transferred to the alignment unit (20) by the handling unit (18) in order to feed the products (14) to the product-receiving containers (12) in a predetermined orientation. The alignment unit (20) includes at least one transfer element (24) and at least one support element (32), which are configured to alternatingly hold the products (14) in the product-receiving containers (12) in the predetermined orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Alexander Frank, Philipp Kathan
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Patent number: 11807468Abstract: A packaging transport device has a support unit (10) including a first support surface (12), which defines a first track section (11), and at least one second support surface (14), which defines a second track section (13) and is tilted relative to the first support surface (12) around a tilt axis (16) running in a transport direction (15), the packaging transport device further including a driving member (17) and drivers (18), which are connected with the driving member (17), and are supported movably around the tilt axis (16), wherein the driving member (17) is implemented by a belt.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Syntegon Packaging Systems AGInventor: Alexander Frank
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Patent number: 11803515Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for defragmentation in deduplication storage systems. Machine language determines using deduplication metadata that at least some of an incoming input/output stream is a duplicate of at least part of a source volume whose physical locations of its stored data are fragmented in backend storage. Subsequently, defragmentation is carried out on the stored data by using the incoming input/output stream to write the data into sequential chunks at new physical locations in the backend storage and updating the source volume location mappings to the new physical locations.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Roderick Guy Charles Moore, Denis Alexander Frank, Lee Jason Sanders
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Publication number: 20230223814Abstract: A stator arrangement of an electric machine having a substantially cylindrical stator carrier with a radially inner joining surface and with a radially outer joining surface. A lamination stack is arranged at the inner joining surface, and the stator carrier with the outer joining surface is received by an inner joining surface of a housing of the electric machine. A connection between the stator carrier and the housing is carried out with an interference fit, and one of the joining surfaces of the stator carrier and housing, which cooperate with one another, is formed interrupted in circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Alexander FRANK, Norbert LOHAUS, Ralph GUEHRER
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Publication number: 20230129608Abstract: An inductive angle measuring device includes a scanning element and a scale element having scale tracks. First and third scale tracks have an equal first number of scale structures, and a second scale track has a different number of scale structures. The scale tracks are arranged circumferentially and concentrically about an axis, such that the first scale track is located radially inwardly, the second scale track is located radially between the first scale track and the third scale track, and the third scale track is located radially outwardly. The scanning element includes receiver conductors by which the signals having angle-related signal periods can be generated. The first signal period is equal to the third signal period. An overall signal can be generated from the first signal and the third signal and can be combined with the second signal for determining absolute angle position information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Marc Oliver TIEMANN, Martin HEUMANN, Alexander FRANK
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Publication number: 20230108949Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for defragmentation in deduplication storage systems. Machine language determines using deduplication metadata that at least some of an incoming input/output stream is a duplicate of at least part of a source volume whose physical locations of its stored data are fragmented in backend storage. Subsequently, defragmentation is carried out on the stored data by using the incoming input/output stream to write the data into sequential chunks at new physical locations in the backend storage and updating the source volume location mappings to the new physical locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Roderick Guy Charles Moore, Denis Alexander Frank, Lee Jason Sanders
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Patent number: 11601030Abstract: A drive device for an electrically drivable vehicle includes a housing body with a first fastening device, a cover which, after release of a second fastening device interacting with the first fastening device for fastening the cover to the housing body, is movable from a first position, in which the cover covers live components of the drive device during operation of the drive device, into a second position, in which the components are exposed, and a first connection device, to which a second connection device is connectable for establishing an electrically conductive connection and/or a data connection. The first fastening device and the first connection device are arranged such that in the first position access to the second fastening means in its position fastening the cover is only possible after the second connection device has been released from the first connection device.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBHInventors: Ond{hacek over (r)}ej Grussmann, Alexander Frank
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Patent number: 11578962Abstract: An inductive position measuring device includes a scanning element and a scale element. The position measuring device is able to determine positions of the scanning element relative to the scale element in a first direction and in a second direction. The scale element includes graduation structures arranged next to one another along the first direction, and the graduation structures have a periodic characteristic with a second period length along the second direction. The scanning element has a first receiver track, a second receiver track, a third receiver track, and an excitation lead. Each of the three receiver tracks has two receiver circuit traces. The receiver circuit traces have a periodic characteristic with a first period length along the first direction, and the receiver tracks are arranged at an offset from one another in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbHInventors: Marc Oliver Tiemann, Martin Heumann, Alexander Frank
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Publication number: 20220297950Abstract: A packaging transport device has a support unit (10) including a first support surface (12), which defines a first track section (11), and at least one second support surface (14), which defines a second track section (13) and is tilted relative to the first support surface (12) around a tilt axis (16) running in a transport direction (15), the packaging transport device further including a driving member (17) and drivers (18), which are connected with the driving member (17), and are supported movably around the tilt axis (16), wherein the driving member (17) is implemented by a belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventor: Alexander Frank
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Publication number: 20220273143Abstract: A towel (1) comprises at least one inner region (10) protected from the outside, at least one inner surface (100?, 100?) of which at least one inner region is made of a material for drying body parts, the region (10) being accessible by means of at least one reversible closure means (11) for drying body parts by means of the at least one inner surface (100?, 100?). The towel (1) is characterized in that the at least one inner surface (100?, 100?) is water-tight toward the exterior (101) of the region (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Alexander FRANK, Johannes STERKEL
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Publication number: 20220222793Abstract: A dual-energy X-ray detector includes a detector line arranged transversely to the sampling direction, including first and second detector elements which respond differently to an X-ray spectrum and which are each arranged alternately next to one another in the detector line, the first and second detector elements each producing based on X-ray radiation (XR) independently of one another in each case only corresponding first or second detector data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventor: Alexander FRANK
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Patent number: 11385886Abstract: A method for validation and prediction of cloud readiness is described. Method includes identifying a sample of components from a cloud infrastructure, wherein an update is applied to the sample to generate a treated sample and the treated sample is of a statistically sufficient scale and a relevant cloud-level diversity and identifying a control sample of components from the cloud infrastructure, wherein the control sample is statistically comparable to the treated sample. The method also includes executing a set of workloads on the treated sample and the control sample. Further, the method includes predicting an impact of the update on a user experience based on a comparison of telemetry captured during execution of the set of workloads on the treated sample and the control sample.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Meir Shmouely, Rahul Shah, Alexander Frank
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Publication number: 20220082343Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system to facilitate counting and displaying of an ammunition count of a magazine of a firearm. Further, the system may include a sensory device configured to generate a sensory data related to a movement of ammunition in the magazine. Further, the system may include a processing device communicatively connected with the sensory device configured for analyzing the sensory data to generate an ammunition data. Further, the ammunition data may include a number of ammunition rounds in the magazine. Further, the system may include a presentation device communicatively connected with the processing device configured for displaying the ammunition data. Further, the system may include a storage device configured for storing the ammunition data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventor: Colby Alexander Frank