Patents by Inventor Franz Hoffman

Franz Hoffman 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: 20150145049
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a floating body memory cell comprising: a first MOS transistor and a second MOS transistor, wherein at least the second MOS transistor has a floating body; and wherein the first and second MOS transistors are configured such that charges can be moved to/from the floating body of the second MOS transistor via the first MOS transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Franz Hoffman, Richard Ferrant, Carlos Mazure
  • Publication number: 20120001921
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method allowing at least an user's device connected to a server (2) to display a text created by an author using a bitmap font, comprising the steps of: creating said bitmap font by means of a font creation application (1); storing said bitmap font in said server (2); synchronizing said bitmap font in said server (2) with a corresponding bitmap font stored in said user's device; rendering said text in said user's device using said bitmap font in said server (2) and a rendering application (3) run within a browser in said user's device. The present invention relates also to a system and is a computer program product for creating and sharing personalized font on a client-server architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Marc ESCHER, Franz Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20120001922
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method allowing an author to create a bitmap font and distributing it to at least an user's device connected to a server (2), comprising the steps of: drawing on an author's device and/or importing (5) in the author's device an image comprising at least one glyph; segmentation (6) of the image by the said author's device, in order to isolate the glyph or the different glyphs; uploading the bitmap file resulting of this segmentation (6) to the server (2); displaying (34) a text on said user's device, said text being rendered with a font depending on said bitmap file. The present invention relates also to a system and a computer program product for creating and sharing personalized font on a client-server architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Marc Escher, Franz Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20060154467
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of a memory cell, a memory cell and a memory cell arrangement. According to the inventive method for the production of a memory cell, a first electrically conductive area is formed in and/or on a substrate. A second electrically conductive area is also formed at a given distance from the first electrically conductive area such that a cavity is formed between the first and second electrically conductive areas. The first and second electrically conductive areas are configured in such a way that when a first voltage is applied to the electrically conductive areas, a structure is formed from material from at least one of said electrically conductive areas, at least partically bridging over the distance between the electrically conductive areas. When a second voltage is applied to the conductive areas, the material of the structure at least partically bridging over the distance between the electrically conductive areas recedes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2003
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Franz Hoffman, Franz Kreupl
  • Publication number: 20030226768
    Abstract: The invention relates to electrodes which are provided with molecules that can bind macromolecular biopolymerss. A first electric measurement is carried out on the electrodes. A medium is contacted to said electrodes in such a way that biopolymers can specifically bind to first molecules or second molecules which are applied to the electrodes, when macromolecular biopolymers are present in the medium. Unbound first or second molecules are removed from the respective electrode and a second electric measurement is carried out. The macromolecular biopolymers are detected according to the measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Franz Hoffman, Richard Johannes Luyken