Patents by Inventor Frank Hofmann

Frank Hofmann 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: 20220159425
    Abstract: There is provided a method comprising: determining at least one V2X message (M) comprising at least one data container (DSC) comprising at least one environment image (I #1) representing a part (E #1) of an environment in at least one spatial dimension at one point in time; and wireless transmitting the at least one V2X message (M).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Florian Alexander Schiegg, Tobias Frye, Frank Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20220143907
    Abstract: A method for additively printing extension segments on workpieces using an additive manufacturing machine includes controlling, with a computing system, an operation of a print head of the machine such that a region of interest of a build plate of the machine is scanned with an electromagnetic radiation beam. Additionally, the method includes receiving, with the computing system, data associated with reflections of the beam off of the build plate as the region interest is scanned. Furthermore, the method includes receiving, with the computing system, data associated with a location of the beam relative to the build plate. Moreover, the method includes determining, with the computing system, a location of a workpiece interface based on the received data. In addition, the method includes controlling, with the computing system, the operation of the print head such that an extension segment is additively printed on the determined workpiece interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaolei Shi, Jinjie Shi, Joseph Edward Hampshire, Douglas Frank Hofmann, Pinghai Yang
  • Publication number: 20220132418
    Abstract: A method for operating an apparatus (UE) comprising: determining (130), in an active mode, a state associated with a direct mode radio channel, and determining (160; 170), in the active mode, at least one subset of a plurality of radio resources of the direct mode radio channel based on the determined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Frank Hofmann, Khaled Shawky Hassan, Klaus Sambale, Maria Bezmenov, Nadia Brahmi
  • Publication number: 20220132282
    Abstract: A method for operating a determination unit (DUb) of a personal mobile terminal or a device with a user interface (UIb). In one example, the method includes receiving, via at least one communication channel (CHb) between the determination unit (DUb) and a control unit (CUb) of a vehicle (BICb), at least one sensor information; determining at least one status information associated with the vehicle (BICb) based on the received at least one sensor information; and transmitting, via the at least one communication channel between the determination unit (DUb) and the control unit (CUb), the at least one determined status information associated with the vehicle (BICb).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan, Nadia Brahmi, Frank Hofmann, Andre Schwarzmeier, Andreas Schaller
  • Publication number: 20220132405
    Abstract: A portable electronic device (UEa) that includes determining means to determine a coupling state that indicates a coupling or non-coupling of the portable electronic device with a vehicle-side control unit of a lightweight vehicle; and selecting means to select one of at least a first and second VRU class of the portable electronic device based on the determined coupling state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Andre Schwarzmeier, Andreas Schaller, Frank Hofmann, Khaled Shawky Hassan, Nadia Brahmi
  • Patent number: 11282395
    Abstract: A method for operating an automated vehicle convoy includes periodically wirelessly transmitting messages from preceding participants of the automated vehicle convoy to respective following participants of the automated vehicle convoy, proceeding from the leading participant of the automated vehicle convoy. The messages include at least one piece of, in particular temporal, information from which a minimum distance between each following participant and the respective preceding participant is ascertained. The following participants of the automated vehicle convoy are guided corresponding to the ascertained minimum distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Sambale, Christian Zimmermann, Frank Hofmann, Soheil Gherekhloo
  • Publication number: 20220043462
    Abstract: Method for safeguarding a communication between a first vehicle 3 and a second vehicle 4, wherein the first vehicle 3 has a first communication device and the second vehicle 4 has a second communication device, wherein the first vehicle 3 forms a leading vehicle and the second vehicle 4 forms a following vehicle, wherein data are interchanged between the first communication device and the second communication device by way of a wireless communication connection, wherein the communication connection has a transmission quality, wherein a future transmission quality is estimated and/or determined for the communication connection, wherein if the future transmission quality is below a minimum transmission quality then a countermeasure to improve the transmission quality is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Christoph Thein, Frank Hofmann, Jens Schwardmann
  • Patent number: 11240704
    Abstract: A method to operate a road-side network node in a cell-supported radio communications network and in an adhoc radio communications network is provided. The method includes providing data to be transmitted; and determining a transmission instruction for the data, the transmission instruction including a channel selection indicating a) a transmission of the data via a sidelink radio channel of the cell-supported radio communications network, b) a transmission of the data via an adhoc radio channel of the adhoc radio communications network, or c) a transmission of the data via the sidelink radio channel and the adhoc radio channel. The method also includes initiating a transmission of the data via the sidelink radio channel and/or via the adhoc radio channel according to the transmission instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Hofmann, Kurt Eckert
  • Publication number: 20210345125
    Abstract: A road-side network node for operation in an adhoc radio communications network is provided. The road-side network node includes a processor, a memory, a radio module, and an antenna. The road-side network node is configured to: determine data to be transmitted via an adhoc radio channel; determine or provide an adhoc time slice reserved for transmissions via the adhoc radio channel; and start a transmission of the data via the adhoc radio channel during the adhoc time slice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Kurt Eckert, Frank Hofmann, Nadia Brahmi
  • Publication number: 20210327275
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating a first on-board control unit for a first motor vehicle. The method includes: receiving a first control message, which includes at least one piece of driving condition information, originating from a second on-board control unit of a second motor vehicle, ascertaining a first point in time for initiating a response of the first motor vehicle as a function of the first control message, selecting the first point in time as the valid point in time, and then ascertaining a signal for initiating the response of the first motor vehicle if, up to the valid point in time, no further control message originating from the second on-board control unit is successfully received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Klaus Sambale, Frank Hofmann, Nadia Brahmi
  • Patent number: 11143763
    Abstract: A method for sending correction data and for determining a highly accurate position of a mobile unit includes receiving a reference region that includes the mobile unit, the reference region being determined as a function of a rough position of the mobile unit; determining the correction data as a function of the reference region, the correction data describing a deviation of the rough position from the highly accurate position of the mobile unit; ascertaining a deviation of the correction data from reference correction data, the reference correction data being assigned to the reference region; and sending the correction data to the mobile unit in order to determine the highly accurate position of the mobile unit as a function of the deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Hofmann, Ralf Luebben
  • Patent number: 11140689
    Abstract: A method for operating a network infrastructure-side network unit of a cell-based wireless communication network is provided. The method includes: receiving a scheduling request message for a sidelink channel in an unlicensed frequency range on an uplink channel by a roadside network unit, the scheduling request message indicating a size of the data available for transmission on the sidelink channel at the roadside network unit; ascertaining a scheduling grant message as a function of the size, the scheduling grant message including an assignment of a number of sidelink resources of the sidelink channel to the roadside network unit, and the assigned number of sidelink resources being sufficient to transmit the available data and additional data of other roadside network units; and transmitting the scheduling grant message to the roadside network unit on a downlink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Monique Duengen, Christine Haas, Christoph Thein, Frank Hofmann, Kurt Eckert, Peter Svejkovsky
  • Patent number: 11129029
    Abstract: A road-side network node for operation in an adhoc radio communications network is provided. The road-side network node includes a processor, a memory, a radio module, and an antenna. The road-side network node is configured to: determine data to be transmitted via an adhoc radio channel; determine or provide an adhoc time slice reserved for transmissions via the adhoc radio channel; and start a transmission of the data via the adhoc radio channel during the adhoc time slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Kurt Eckert, Frank Hofmann, Nadia Brahmi
  • Publication number: 20210258093
    Abstract: A method is described for the locationally selective transmission of a signal by radio. Both a transmitter and a receiver are synchronized to the same time reference. The receiver receiving and demodulating, at a time that is one of the specified times of the time reference, a signal transmitted by the transmitter, if the receiver has received the signal at a time that is one of the specified times. The method includes the transmitter determining a receive location within a receive zone to which it wishes to transmit the signal in selective fashion, a position in the receive zone being a function of a position of the transmitter and a signal runtime. The method also includes the transmitter transmitting the signal; and the receiver, which is situated inside the receive zone, receives and demodulates the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Christoph Thein, Klaus Sambale, Frank Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11096061
    Abstract: A method for operating a network infrastructure-side network unit is provided which includes: sending a first indication to a number of roadside network units of a cell-based wireless communications network, the first indication including a reservation of sidelink resources of a sidelink channel in an unlicensed frequency range in a first time frame; and sending a second indication to a number of roadside network units of an ad hoc wireless communications network, the second indication including a reservation of an ad hoc channel in the unlicensed frequency range for a second time frame, the first and the second time frames being temporally disjoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Hofmann, Nadia Brahmi
  • Patent number: 11089610
    Abstract: A method for operating a network infrastructure-side network unit of a cell-based wireless communication network includes: predicting a piece of cell-related occupancy information of sidelink resources of a sidelink channel in an unlicensed frequency range; receiving a scheduling request message from a roadside network unit for the sidelink channel on an uplink channel; ascertaining a scheduling grant message for the roadside network unit based on the predicted cell-related occupancy information, the scheduling grant message including an assignment of at least one sidelink resource of the sidelink channel to the roadside network unit; and sending the scheduling grant information to the roadside network unit on a downlink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christine Haas, Christoph Thein, Frank Hofmann, Jean-Philippe Kermoal, Kurt Eckert, Monique Duengen, Nadia Brahmi, Peter Svejkovsky
  • Publication number: 20210190131
    Abstract: A treatment machine comprises a chamber for the treatment of one substrate or a plurality of substrates. A rotatably supported temperature-controlled shaft (30) defines a cylindrical, gas-tight hollow space. A heating arrangement (40, 50) is provided for electrically heating at least a part of the shaft (30) arranged in the chamber. The heating arrangement (40, 50) comprises an accommodation mandrel (40) for accommodating at least one electrical heating element (50), said accommodation mandrel (40) being arranged in a non-rotating manner and extending into the hollow space of the shaft (30). An outer surface of the accommodation mandrel (40) is spaced apart from an inner surface of the shaft (30) by a gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Frank HOFMANN, Karl SCHMITT, Stefan KEMPF, Andreas AMRHEIN, Bernhard CORD, Uwe HORLITZ
  • Patent number: 11044029
    Abstract: A method is described for the locationally selective transmission of a signal by radio. Both a transmitter and a receiver are synchronized to the same time reference. The receiver receiving and demodulating, at a time that is one of the specified times of the time reference, a signal transmitted by the transmitter, if the receiver has received the signal at a time that is one of the specified times. The method includes the transmitter determining a receive location within a receive zone to which it wishes to transmit the signal in selective fashion, a position in the receive zone being a function of a position of the transmitter and a signal runtime. The method also includes the transmitter transmitting the signal; and the receiver, which is situated inside the receive zone, receives and demodulates the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Thein, Klaus Sambale, Frank Hofmann
  • Patent number: 10941833
    Abstract: A vibration isolator with a pneumatic spring that is effective only in vertical direction, the pneumatic spring including a working space in which a vertically effective actuator is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Integrated Dynamics Engineering GmbH
    Inventors: Arndt Evers, Frank Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20200396639
    Abstract: A method to operate a road-side network node in a cell-supported radio communications network and in an adhoc radio communications network is provided. The method includes providing data to be transmitted; and determining a transmission instruction for the data, the transmission instruction including a channel selection indicating a) a transmission of the data via a sidelink radio channel of the cell-supported radio communications network, b) a transmission of the data via an adhoc radio channel of the adhoc radio communications network, or c) a transmission of the data via the sidelink radio channel and the adhoc radio channel. The method also includes initiating a transmission of the data via the sidelink radio channel and/or via the adhoc radio channel according to the transmission instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Frank Hofmann, Kurt Eckert