Patents by Inventor Alexander Thiel

Alexander Thiel 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: 11604457
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a smart counting method and system in manufacturing, specifically in custom clothing or fabric manufacturing. The smart counting method and system uses a camera to feed real-time image data of a working platform where a worker takes a unfinished clothing or fabric, processes the clothing or fabric, and puts the finished clothing or fabric in a finished pile to a processing unit. The processing unit automatically starts a new work order and counts the number of finished products in this work order by using computer vision techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventors: Tyler Compton, Bryce Beagle, Alexander Thiel, Xintian Li
  • Patent number: 11603976
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlamp that includes a housing in which at least one main light source is arranged. Detachably attached to an external lens of the motor vehicle headlamp is at least one front housing, which has a light-guiding element and lamps for coupling light rays into the light-guiding element. The light rays are coupled out of the light-guiding element through an output structure. Further additional lamps that can give off light rays are arranged side by side in front of the external lens. The light rays given off by the lamps pass through the external lens and the front housing in the direction of an outside environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Alexander Thiel
  • Patent number: 11600068
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for processing digital video are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive digital video data at one or more digital video inputs; identify each of the plurality of video frames as one of a keyframe and an intermediate frame; use one or more first sets of software instructions to send at least one of the keyframes and the intermediate frames to one or more processing scripts; use the one or more processing scripts to implement an asynchronous batch processing system on at least one of the keyframes and the intermediate frames by applying one or more second sets of software instructions; and receive an output from the one or more second sets of software instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dilili Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Thiel, Tyler Compton, Xintian Li
  • Publication number: 20220252236
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlamp that includes a housing in which at least one main light source is arranged. Detachably attached to an external lens of the motor vehicle headlamp is at least one front housing, which has a light-guiding element and lamps for coupling light rays into the light-guiding element. The light rays are coupled out of the light-guiding element through an output structure. Further additional lamps that can give off light rays are arranged side by side in front of the external lens. The light rays given off by the lamps pass through the external lens and the front housing in the direction of an outside environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Alexander THIEL
  • Patent number: 11236881
    Abstract: A headlight (10) and a lighting system (54) with the headlight (10) and a control unit. A motor vehicle (52) has the headlight (10), which combines a full beam matrix (20) and a dipped light in a common pivotable lighting module (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander Thiel, Ines Opaska, Christoph Loose, Mathias Thamm
  • Publication number: 20210240173
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a smart counting method and system in manufacturing, specifically in custom clothing or fabric manufacturing. The smart counting method and system uses a camera to feed real-time image data of a working platform where a worker takes a unfinished clothing or fabric, processes the clothing or fabric, and puts the finished clothing or fabric in a finished pile to a processing unit. The processing unit automatically starts a new work order and counts the number of finished products in this work order by using computer vision techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Dilili Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Compton, Bryce Beagle, Alexander Thiel, Xintian Li
  • Publication number: 20210056314
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for processing digital video are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive digital video data at one or more digital video inputs; identify each of the plurality of video frames as one of a keyframe and an intermediate frame; use one or more first sets of software instructions to send at least one of the keyframes and the intermediate frames to one or more processing scripts; use the one or more processing scripts to implement an asynchronous batch processing system on at least one of the keyframes and the intermediate frames by applying one or more second sets of software instructions; and receive an output from the one or more second sets of software instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Alexander Thiel, Tyler Compton, Xintian Li
  • Patent number: 10752162
    Abstract: A headlight system for a vehicle is enabled for a bending light function. A first light module generates a conventional asymmetrical dipped headlight with an upper first light/dark boundary on the driver's side of a central axis. A second light module has a matrix of light-emitting diode units. A control unit actuates light emissions of the individual light-emitting diode units separately. A bend-detection unit detects the radius of a curve in the direction of travel of the vehicle. The light-emitting diode units have at maximum two horizontal lines, and they generate an emission characteristic with a lower second light/dark boundary below the first light/dark boundary of the dipped headlight, an upper third light/dark boundary above the first light/dark boundary of the dipped headlight, and a lateral fourth light/dark boundary on the side of the light emissions of the second light module the faces the driver's side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl-Wilhelm Gutjahr, Alexander Thiel
  • Publication number: 20200263849
    Abstract: A headlight (10) and a lighting system (54) with the headlight (10) and a control unit. A motor vehicle (52) has the headlight (10), which combines a full beam matrix (20) and a dipped light in a common pivotable lighting module (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: ALEXANDER THIEL, INES OPASKA, CHRISTOPH LOOSE, MATHIAS THAMM
  • Publication number: 20190031086
    Abstract: A headlight system for a vehicle is enabled for a bending light function. A first light module generates a conventional asymmetrical dipped headlight with an upper first light/dark boundary on the driver's side of a central axis. A second light module has a matrix of light-emitting diode units. A control unit actuates light emissions of the individual light-emitting diode units separately. A bend-detection unit detects the radius of a curve in the direction of travel of the vehicle. The light-emitting diode units have at maximum two horizontal lines, and they generate an emission characteristic with a lower second light/dark boundary below the first light/dark boundary of the dipped headlight, an upper third light/dark boundary above the first light/dark boundary of the dipped headlight, and a lateral fourth light/dark boundary on the side of the light emissions of the second light module the faces the driver's side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: KARL-WILHELM GUTJAHR, ALEXANDER THIEL
  • Patent number: 10125943
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlamp including a housing in which at least one main light source is arranged, at least one further light-emitter, a heat sink for cooling the light-emitter, an at least partially transparent external lens that closes off the housing from the external environment of the motor vehicle headlamp and has an inner side facing the interior of the housing and an outer side facing the external environment, a front housing that is arranged in front of the outer side of the external lens. A light-guiding element is arranged in or on the front housing that at least partially fills the interior of the front housing or forms at least part of a wall of the front housing and guides light radiated inwards by the light-emitter. A motor vehicle is provided that includes a motor vehicle headlamp and a cooling grille having at least one cooling grille lamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander Thiel, Eduard Dordel
  • Publication number: 20160377254
    Abstract: A motor vehicle headlamp including a housing in which at least one main light source is arranged, at least one further light-emitter, a heat sink for cooling the light-emitter, an at least partially transparent external lens that closes off the housing from the external environment of the motor vehicle headlamp and has an inner side facing the interior of the housing and an outer side facing the external environment, a front housing that is arranged in front of the outer side of the external lens. A light-guiding element is arranged in or on the front housing that at least partially fills the interior of the front housing or forms at least part of a wall of the front housing and guides light radiated inwards by the light-emitter. A motor vehicle is provided that includes a motor vehicle headlamp and a cooling grille having at least one cooling grille lamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander THIEL, Eduard DORDEL
  • Patent number: 8022677
    Abstract: An electrical device having a generator, e.g., for use in the vehicle electrical system of a motor vehicle, includes a controller for controlling the generator voltage. In the device, an area is provided in which a voltage control is carried out, and other areas are provided in which a torque control is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, Daimler Chrysler AG, BMW AG
    Inventors: Xaver Laufenberg, Dominique Eynius, Helmut Suelzle, Stephan Usbeck, Matthias Spaeth, Miriam Neuser-Hoffmann, Christian Myrzik, Manfred Schmid, Franz Nietfeld, Alexander Thiel, Harald Braun, Norbert Ebner
  • Publication number: 20070252560
    Abstract: An electrical device having a generator, e.g., for use in the vehicle electrical system of a motor vehicle, includes a controller for controlling the generator voltage. In the device, an area is provided in which a voltage control is carried out, and other areas are provided in which a torque control is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicants: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, DAIMLER CHRYSLER AG, BMW AG
    Inventors: Xaver Laufenberg, Dominique Eynius, Helmut Suelzle, Stephan Usbeck, Matthias Spaeth, Miriam Neuser-Hoffmann, Christian Myrzik, Manfred Schmid, Franz Nietfeld, Alexander Thiel, Harald Braun, Norbert Ebner
  • Patent number: 6773916
    Abstract: A method of treating an ocular disorder is disclosed, comprising administering to a patient in need of such treatment, an effective amount of a sub-immunoglobulin antigen-binding molecule that is immuno-interactive with a target antigen associated with the disorder. The invention is also directed to compositions comprising this sub-immunoglobulin antigen-binding molecule and to a method of diagnosing an ocular condition using such molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: The Flinders University of South Australia
    Inventors: Michael Alexander Thiel, Heddy Zola, Douglas John Coster, Keryn Anne Williams
  • Patent number: 5619611
    Abstract: A device for removing deposits such as asphalt, hydrates, and paraffins from petroleum and natural gas production strings and pipelines include a tubular housing divided into a heating section at a forward end and a ballast section at a rear end, the heating section containing an electrically conducting heating medium and an electrode, and the part of the housing forming the heating section is made of an electrically conducting material, the electrode being connected to one pole of an electrical power supply and the part of the housing forming the heating section being connected to another pole of the electrical power supply, so that the heating medium and the heating section are heated by the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: TuB Tauch-und Baggertechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Loschen, Alexander Thiel