Patents by Inventor Bert Muller

Bert Muller 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).

  • Publication number: 20240110423
    Abstract: A window lifter assembly for an adjustable windowpane of a motor vehicle has a guide rail and a driver with a connecting leg and two driver legs connected by the connecting leg. Between the two driver legs is a receptacle gap for the adjustable windowpane. The two driver legs include a first driver leg configured to mount and guide the driver on the guide rail and a second driver leg being elastically displaceable in relation to the first driver leg and has a latching element which protrudes into the receptacle gap. When inserting the adjustable windowpane into the receptacle gap of the driver the latching element engages in a pane-proximal latching opening of the windowpane. The driver further has a resting contour on which the second driver leg is supported as a result of a tensile force acting on the latching element by way of the adjustable windowpane in a closing direction or a closed position of the adjustable windowpane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Jörg Müller, Bert Almes, Udo Taubmann
  • Patent number: 11938671
    Abstract: Techniques for producing at least one PLA strip involve: a) providing a strip-shaped extruded PLA film, b) heating the PLA film provided according to step a) to a temperature in the range from 40 to 70° C., c) cutting the PLA film heated according to step b) into the at least one PLA strip, and d) stretching the PLA film cut according to step c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: STC Spinnzwirn GmbH
    Inventors: Kenneth Schindler, Bert Woellner, Daniel Götze, Torsten Müller, Jens Weinhold
  • Patent number: 11904051
    Abstract: A liposome vesicle comprising a membrane consisting of 1,3-diheptadecanamidopropan-2-yl(2-(trimethylammonio)ethyl)phosphate surrounding a volume comprising a pharmaceutical drug or contrast agent. The vesicle is mechanosensitive at body temperature and at physiologically or pathophysiologically relevant shear stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: Universität Basel, Universität Freiburg
    Inventors: Bert Müller, Andreas Zumbühl, Thomas Pfohl, Dennis Müller, Frederik Neuhaus, Radu Tanasescu, Till Saxer, Marzia Buscema, Sofiya Matviykiv, Gabriela Gerganova
  • Publication number: 20220296163
    Abstract: For exploiting novel use-cases, in particular sophisticated human-machine interaction, with an intraoral electronic tongue monitoring system designed to be worn by a user on the upper or lower jaw and featuring a support sheet bearing a number of intraoral sensors arranged in an array for recording tongue movement and/or tongue pressure, it is proposed that the system comprises at least one extraoral sensor located outside of the oral cavity delimited by the teeth when the system is in place, in particular such that extraoral and/or intraoral and/or interlabial movements of the tongue and/or lip pressure can be recorded with the system and/or such that the system may be used as an input device controlled through tongue movement using a human-machine-interface provided by the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Universität Basel Vizerektorat Forschung
    Inventors: Jeanette von Jackowski, Tino Töpper, Bekim Osmani, Bert Müller
  • Publication number: 20210041310
    Abstract: For improving the sensitivity, lifetime and energy consumption of a dielectric elastomer transducer (1) to be used as a sensor, it is suggested that a dielectric layer (3) enclosed by two electrodes (2) of the transducer (1) includes a nanoscale volume of a fluid (15) such that the dielectric layer (3) is rendered compressible and/or displaceable out of a volume enclosed by the two electrodes (2). The advantage of such a design is that, although the dielectric layer (3) and possible buffer layers (4) separating the electrodes (2) from the dielectric layer (3) may all have thicknesses in the order of a few ?m or even in the sub-?m range, the transducer (1) is rendered highly compliant due to the movability of the fluid (15). In consequence, a large nominal capacitance of the transducer (1) as well as a large relative capacitance change (up to twenty times that of the nominal capacitance) can be achieved in conjunction with a very high sensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Universitat Basel Vizerektorat Forschung
    Inventors: Tino TÖPPER, Bekim OSMANI, Bert MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20210030676
    Abstract: A liposome vesicle comprising a membrane consisting of 1,3-diheptadecanamidopropan-2-yl(2-(trimethylammonio)ethyl)phosphate surrounding a volume comprising a pharmaceutical drug or contrast agent. The vesicle is mechanosensitive at body temperature and at physiologically or pathophysiologically relevant shear stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Bert MÜLLER, Andreas ZUMBÜHL, Thomas PFOHL, Dennis MÜLLER, Frederik NEUHAUS, Radu TANASESCU, Till SAXER, Marzia BUSCEMA, Sofiya MATVIYKIV, Gabriela GERGANOVA
  • Patent number: 5725510
    Abstract: The invention concerns an endotracheal tube with a collar. In order to avoid as far as possible the danger of a pulmonary infection caused by microbes introduced along the tube, at least one device with an antimicrobial action is fitted at one or more points (12) on the outer surface of the tube. This device consists preferably of a piece of silver foil, vapor-deposited silver or a silver compound (silver salt), or may also be a length of tubing fitted in the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Inventors: Michael Hartmann, Bert Muller