Patents by Inventor Andrea Mueller

Andrea Mueller 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: 11992556
    Abstract: This invention relates to a pharmaceutical aerosol product suitable for administration by oral or nasal inhalation and its use in the treatment of respiratory diseases, in particular in the treatment of children. The aerosol composition comprises ciclesonide, ethanol and either 1, 1, 1, 2-tetrafluoroethane, or 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3-heptafluoropropane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Covis Pharma GmbH
    Inventors: Helgert Müller, Renate Engelstätter, Ulrich Bildmann, Andrea Bauer, Paul McGlynn
  • Publication number: 20240167937
    Abstract: A measuring device includes: a measuring cell, which can be manufactured cost-effectively and is easy to handle, insert and/or replace; a measuring cell receptacle for receiving the measuring cell, which is or can be clamped in the measuring cell receptacle; and a sensor for measuring for measuring at least one measured variable for a medium located in the measurement chamber or flowing through the measurement chamber of the measuring cell. The measuring cell includes a measurement chamber through which the medium can flow or which can be filled with a medium and a spring system with which the measuring cell can be clamped in the measuring cell receptacle in at least one clamping direction relating to a measurement chamber axis of the measurement chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas Müller, Hans Meyer, Matthias Großmann
  • Publication number: 20240164581
    Abstract: A brewing assembly with a bean hopper assembly that comprises a housing and a tub at least partially located in the housing. The tub defines a pocket configured to hold beans, and an opening extends through the tub to route beans into a provided grinder. A knob extends through the opening and includes a first locking member that includes a locked position where the tub is fixed to the housing, and an unlocked position where the tub is selectively fixed to the housing. A push button assembly includes a second locking member that is selectively moveable to an actuated position when the first locking member is in the unlocked position to release the tub, and where the tub is fixed to the housing when the second locking member is in the actuated position and the first locking member is in the locked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Andreas Müller, Wolfgang Riessbeck, Fabiana Nunes Bressanin Weber, Saadettin Yesil
  • Patent number: 11987116
    Abstract: A device for sequentially switching at least one first and at least one second Venetian blind, the slats of which can each be synchronously rotationally moved by means of at least one coupling rod in order to open and close the blinds. The device includes an actuator for generating a rotational movement of the slats through 80° to 90°, a coupling for rotatably coupling the actuator to a slat of the first blind, a link rod which has a partially-circular link, and a transmission rod. The actuator has an eccentric pin parallel to its axis of rotation which engages in the partially-circular link of the link rod, and the linear movement of the link rod is transmitted to the coupling rod of the at least second blind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MONTAPLAST GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Müller, Andreas Thanheiser, Frank Mika
  • Publication number: 20240159108
    Abstract: A drilling system configured to drill a borehole into a subsurface formation, including a steering device. The steering device is configured to convey a fluid supply through a valve to an outside surface of the steering device, wherein the fluid flow causes a steering force on the steering device. A method for drilling a borehole into a subsurface formation, including disposing a steering device in the borehole, rotating the steering device, urging a fluid to flow through a valve of the steering device to an outside surface of the steering device, wherein the fluid flow causes a steering force on the steering device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Volker Peters, Andreas Peter, Christian Fulda, Tim Mueller, Ingo Roders, Olaf Gaertner
  • Publication number: 20240159109
    Abstract: A steering augmenter for a steering device of a drilling tool, including a body, a first flow passage in the body and configured to convey a fluid supply. a channel at the outside surface of the body, the channel being configured to produce a Bernoulli effect therein during fluid flow therein, a second flow passage fluidly connecting the first flow passage to the channel, and a valve associated with the second flow passage and configured to allow, prevent or choke flow through the second flow passage. A downhole drill bit assembly including a steering augmenter, the drill bit attached to the steering augmenter. A method for drilling a borehole into the earth, the method including conveying the steering device into the borehole, operating the valve to allow, prevent or choke flow through the second flow passage, creating a steering force at the steering augmenter by the produced Bernoulli effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Volker Peters, Andreas Peter, Christian Fulda, Tim Mueller, Ingo Roders, Olaf Gaertner
  • Publication number: 20240159111
    Abstract: A downhole motor, having a body having an outside surface and a longitudinal extent, a first flow passage defined within the body and disposed along the longitudinal extent of the body, and a second flow passage extending from the first flow passage to a channel at the outside surface, wherein a Bernoulli suction force is created at the channel. A method for drilling a borehole, including directing a fluid through a first flow passage defined within a body of a drill and disposed along the longitudinal extent of the body, directing a portion of the fluid from the first flow passage through a second flow passage to a channel at an outside surface to create a Bernoulli suction force at the channel, and drilling a curved section of the borehole by using the Bernoulli suction force at the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Volker Peters, Andreas Peter, Christian Fulda, Tim Mueller, Ingo Roders, Olaf Gaertner
  • Publication number: 20240160865
    Abstract: A method is provided using a safety system. The safety system has an electronic access system for a safety zone for objects, at least one radio transponder and at least one radio station to recognize the radio transponder, at least one control and evaluation unit that is connected to the radio station for evaluating the read radio transponder information, and at least one spatially bounded access zone having an access station. The safety zone is only accessible via the access zone so that the access zone can be passed through by the object before reaching the safety zone and after leaving the safety zone, with the access station being actuated when an object passes through the access zone. Permitted objects have the radio transponder, with the radio transponder having an identification whereby the object can be identified. The permitted objects having the radio transponder can pass through the access zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Hagen FETH, Andreas SIXT, Angelina MUELLER, Holger WAIBEL
  • Publication number: 20240159355
    Abstract: A method using a safety system for localizing a person and/or object in a monitored zone having a control and evaluation unit, having at least one radio location system for the position determination of the person and/or object in the monitored zone, wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to evaluate position data of the radio location system and status information of a spatially resolving sensor and, if a person and/or object is/are determined in the monitored zone by the radio location system, the control and evaluation unit is configured to set the spatially resolving sensor into operation at a non-reduced safety level and, if no person and/or no object is/are determined in the monitored zone by the radio location system, the control and evaluation unit is configured to set the spatially resolving sensor into operation at a reduced safety level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Hagen FETH, Andreas SIXT, Angelina MÜLLER, Holger WAIBEL
  • Publication number: 20240159654
    Abstract: A measuring cell for performing optical measurements of a medium disposed in the measuring cell includes: recesses extending through a first outer wall and a second outer wall of the measuring cell; and two window mounts, each with a transparent window therein and each including outward protruding projections configured to be inserted a corresponding recess at a selected installation depth, wherein a wall of the measuring cell that surrounds the recess includes on an inside, for each selectable installation depth, one set of contact surfaces arranged around the recess in a radial direction such that the projections of the window mount seat on the contact surfaces of the corresponding set, which are arranged in an axial direction such that the window mount is arranged in the recess at the selected installation depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas Müller, Hans Meyer, Matthias Großmann
  • Patent number: 11983307
    Abstract: An occlusion detection system to perform operations that include: capturing image data that depicts an environment at a client device, the environment including a target object at a position within the environment; causing display of a presentation of the environment at the client device, the presentation of the environment including a display of the target object at the position within the environment; detecting a first attribute of the display of the target object at the client device; performing a comparison of the first attribute of the display of the target object and a second attribute associated with the target object; and detecting an occlusion based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Piers Cowburn, David Li, Isac Andreas Müller Sandvik, Qi Pan
  • Patent number: 11980487
    Abstract: A stand is for a medical imaging system. In an embodiment, the stand includes an X-ray tube; a driver to adjust the X-ray tube in at least three spatial degrees of freedom; at least one environmental sensor to acquire at least one environmental parameter; and a controller to control an adjustment movement of the X-ray tube by generating control signals for the drive unit and to adapt the adjustment movement based on the at least one environmental parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG
    Inventors: Andreas Deinlein, Matthias Mueller, Rolf Schmidt, Thomas Dippl, Franz Dirauf, Thorsten Gecks, Claus-Guenter Schliermann, Franz Fuetterer, Thomas Pfeiffer, Alexander Beer, Dieter Heinl, Wolfgang Neuber
  • Publication number: 20240151957
    Abstract: A microscopy system and a method for operating a microscopy system are provided. The microscopy system includes a tracking camera configured to detect a pose of an object, a tracking illumination device, and a controller configured to control the tracking illumination device and/or the tracking camera. Illumination information is determinable by evaluating an image representation from the tracking camera and/or pose information of the object is determinable relative to at least one illumination device and/or a working distance is determinable, with the illumination by the tracking illumination device and/or an image capture by the at least one tracking camera being able to be set based on the illumination information and/or based on the pose information of the object and/or based on the working distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan Ernsperger, Dominik Litsch, Andreas Raab, Jonathan Essig, Natalie Krieg, Andrè Müller
  • Publication number: 20240150941
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spinning means for a work station of a textile machine having a plurality of work stations, comprising a first spinning means identification for identifying and/or authenticating the spinning means at a work station. Furthermore, the invention relates to a textile machine having a plurality of work stations and a method for operating the same, wherein the work stations have replaceable spinning means, each having a first spinning means identification. In order to provide a spinning means that has a particularly forgery-proof spinning means identification, it is provided that the first spinning means identification is formed by at least one specific, sensor-detectable material property of a spinning means material and/or a coating applied to the spinning means material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Florian Keuter, Andreas Jakobinski, Jens Geerligs, Ronny Mueller
  • Publication number: 20240151331
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for connecting rigid pipes and for connecting flexible pipes. The pipes have corresponding outer diameters, with a press jaw having a press contour, with at least one first fitting for press-fitting to a rigid pipe, the at least one first fitting having a first press sleeve with a first outer contour, with at least one second fitting for press-fitting to a flexible pipe, the at least one second fitting having a second press sleeve with a second outer contour, the at least one second fitting having a second press sleeve with a second outer contour has a second press sleeve with a second outer contour, the outer contour of the first press sleeve and the outer contour of the second press sleeve in each case being adapted at least in sections to the press contour of the press jaw of the press jaw and can be pressed by the press jaw and wherein the outer contours of the first press sleeve and of the second press sleeve correspond at least in sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Sudi Sinoplu, Stefan Rocksloh, Fabian Düperthal, Anton Hartmann, Paul Köster, Philipp Dasbach, Mesut Avci, Jörg Rosenthal, Andreas Müller
  • Publication number: 20240144835
    Abstract: Systems and methods for radar-based aircraft maneuver actions are provided. An example computer-implemented method includes transmitting, using one or more transmitters onboard an aircraft, one or more radio signals. Reflected radio data corresponding to one or more radio signals reflected from a plurality of radio detection and ranging (“radar”) reflectors placed at a plurality of locations associated with an aerial facility can be received using one or more radio receivers onboard the aircraft. A location for the aircraft can be computed based on the radio data and the plurality of locations associated with the aerial facility at which the radar reflectors are placed. A maneuver action for the aircraft can be initiated at a particular landing pad of the aerial facility based on the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Burghardt, Karsten Mueller, Andreas Stelzer, Heinz Haderer, Simon Scott
  • Publication number: 20240141799
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for removing a rotor (100) of a generator (4) in a turbine plant (1) in which the generator (4) is driven by at least one turbine (7), in particular a gas turbine or steam turbine, in which the turbine (7) is opened and the rotor (39) of the turbine (7) is removed, and only then is the rotor of the generator (4) pulled out of the generator (4) so that it is located in the lower housing half of the turbine (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Florian Lang, Oliver Rottländer, Andreas Müller, Mark Grasso, Torsten Löber
  • Publication number: 20240133191
    Abstract: The invention relates to a boom-arm segment fora concrete pump, wherein the boom-arm segment (30) comprises a side part (35, 36)-which extends between a top chord (33) and a bottom chord (34) of the boom-arm segment (30). In the side part (35, 36), a bent portion is formed such that a first portion (42, 43) of the side part (35, 36) has a lateral offset (56) relative to a second portion (44) of the side part (35, 36). A transition portion (45, 46) forms a connection between the first portion (42, 43) and the second portion (44). The boom-arm segment (30) comprises a reinforcement part (40, 50), the material thickness of which spans the lateral offset (56) between the first portion (42, 43) and the second portion (44). The reinforcement part (40, 50) is butt-joined to the transition portion (45, 46). The invention also relates to a method for producing a boom-arm segment (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas Benz, Ansgar Müller, Benjamin Rau
  • Patent number: 11967787
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a securing element for a connector, comprising a securing element body having a receptacle that is designed to encompass at least one rear segment of a cable connector element connected to at least one cable, and having a base running substantially perpendicular to the connection direction of the cable connector element, said base having an opening through which the at least one cable connected to the cable connector element can be guided, wherein the base is designed to positively enclose a cable-side end face of the cable connector element; and wherein the securing element body has at least two snap hooks that extend in the plug-in direction and which in each case have at their free end a latching element, such as a latching lug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Müller, Matthias Grossmann, Judith Raupp
  • Patent number: D1026322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas Müller, Matthias Sperling