Patents by Inventor Gerd Zimmermann

Gerd Zimmermann 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: 20240174599
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (I), and their use as herbicides. In said formula, R1 to R8 represent groups such as hydrogen, halogen or organic groups such as alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, or alkoxy; X is a bond or a divalent unit; Y is hydrogen, cyano, hydroxyl or a linear or cyclic organic group. The invention further refers to a composition comprising such compound and to the use thereof for controlling unwanted vegetation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Marc Heinrich, Markus Kordes, Tobias Seiser, Gunther Zimmermann, Trevor William Newton, Gerd Kraemer
  • Patent number: 11992272
    Abstract: An optical tracking device, a surgical navigation system and a surgical navigation method are disclosed. The optical tracking device comprises a body having at least two optically distinguishable lines, wherein at least one of the lines is an edge of the body. The lines are configured to be detected by an optical detection system simultaneously. They have a fixed spatial relationship between each other. The method comprises providing the optical tracking device, acquiring data describing the fixed spatial relationship, detecting the lines and determining the spatial position and/or orientation of the optical tracking device based on the detected lines and the fixed spatial relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Gerd Ulrich Gamm, Emeric Umbdenstock, Reinhold Zimmermann, Fabian Riegelsberger, Florian Herrmann, Jochen Breisacher
  • Patent number: 11980425
    Abstract: A tracker for a surgical navigation system, a tracker system, and a surgical navigation system are provided. The tracker comprises a carrier and an electrical circuit disposed on the carrier. The electrical circuit comprises at least one infrared light emitting diode, IR-LED, and a battery or a wireless power reception device configured to receive power wirelessly, wherein the battery or the wireless power reception device is configured to provide power to operate the at least one IR-LED. The electrical circuit is configured to limit a current for at least one of the at least one IR-LED to not exceed 15 mA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Fadi Ghanam, Jochen Breisacher, Florian Herrmann, Emeric Umbdenstock, Reinhold Zimmermann, Gerd Ulrich Gamm
  • Patent number: 11792673
    Abstract: Data analytics reporting (DAR) of a Radio Access Network (RAN) key performance indicator (KPI) from a data extraction entity (DEE) to a data analytics entity (DAE) in a data analytics process (DAP) is performed via an interface. The DEE is comprised in a gNB-Distributed Unit (gNB-DU) or a function therein. The DAE is comprised in a gNB-Centralized Unit (gNB-CU) or a function therein. A dataset regarding said KPI is transmitted from the DEE to the DAE. Said dataset comprises at least one empirical statistical moment mi determined by the DEE. Each of the at least one empirical statistical moment mi is determined by the DEE based on the following equation: m i = 1 N S ? ? n = 1 N S s n i . sn is a data sample of the KPI, and NS is a number of samples contributing to the respective moment mi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventors: Paul Arnold, Gerd Zimmermann, Michael Einhaus
  • Publication number: 20230129773
    Abstract: Data analytics reporting (DAR) of a Radio Access Network (RAN) key performance indicator (KPI) from a data extraction entity (DEE) to a data analytics entity (DAE) in a data analytics process (DAP) is performed via an interface. The DEE is comprised in a gNB-Distributed Unit (gNB-DU) or a function therein. The DAE is comprised in a gNB-Centralized Unit (gNB-CU) or a function therein. A dataset regarding said KPI is transmitted from the DEE to the DAE. Said dataset comprises at least one empirical statistical moment mi determined by the DEE. Each of the at least one empirical statistical moment mi is determined by the DEE based on the following equation: m i = 1 N S ? ? n = 1 N S s n i . s n is a data sample of the KPI, and NS is a number of samples contributing to the respective moment mi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Paul Arnold, Gerd ZIMMERMANN, Michael EINHAUS
  • Patent number: 11463911
    Abstract: A radio access system includes: a set of radio access entities, in particular a set of gNBs and/or ng-eNBs, which are interconnected via respective first interfaces; and a centralized resource controller. Each radio access entity of the set of radio access entities comprises a centralized unit (CU) and at least one distributed unit (DU) coupled to the CU via a second interface. The centralized resource controller configured to assign computational resources to the CUs and the DUs of the radio access entities based on measurement reports received via the first interfaces and/or the second interfaces from the respective units, wherein the measurement reports comprise information about a computational resource utilization of the respective units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventors: Paul Arnold, Michael Einhaus, Gerd Zimmermann, Igor Kim, Mohamad Buchr Charaf
  • Patent number: 11457035
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices and methods for detecting network intrusions. Embodiments are directed to processing vehicle network traffic with known traffic profiles. In one embodiment, violations of the known traffic profiles may be reported. Configurations and processes are also provided for network interface controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Gerd Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20210168653
    Abstract: A radio access system includes: a set of radio access entities, in particular a set of gNBs and/or ng-eNBs, which are interconnected via respective first interfaces; and a centralized resource controller. Each radio access entity of the set of radio access entities comprises a centralized unit (CU) and at least one distributed unit (DU) coupled to the CU via a second interface. The centralized resource controller configured to assign computational resources to the CUs and the DUs of the radio access entities based on measurement reports received via the first interfaces and/or the second interfaces from the respective units, wherein the measurement reports comprise information about a computational resource utilization of the respective units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Paul Arnold, Michael Einhaus, Gerd Zimmermann, Igor Kim, Mohamad Buchr Charaf
  • Publication number: 20200366701
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices and methods for detecting network intrusions. Embodiments are directed to processing vehicle network traffic with known traffic profiles. In one embodiment, violations of the known traffic profiles may be reported. Configurations and processes are also provided for network interface controllers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventor: Gerd Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20180034944
    Abstract: A radio access entity includes: a first communication interface for receiving a communication packet, wherein the communication packet comprises useful data and supplementary data; a processor configured to separate the useful data from the supplementary data, to transfer the useful data into a first data packet and to transfer the supplementary data into a second data packet; and a second communication interface configured to send out the first data packet according to a first data transmission protocol and to send out the second data packet according to a second data transmission protocol, wherein the first data transmission protocol and the second data transmission protocol are different from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventor: Gerd Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20180034945
    Abstract: A radio access entity for communicating with a mobile communication device via a radio access network includes: a first communication interface for receiving a data stream; a processor configured to split the data stream into a first sub-data stream and a second sub-data stream on the basis of a first efficiency level of a first communication port of the mobile communication device and a second efficiency level of a second communication port of the mobile communication device; and a second communication interface configured to send the first sub-data stream to the first communication port in a manner corresponding to the first data transmission technology and to send the second sub-data stream to the second communication port in a manner corresponding to the second data transmission technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventor: Gerd ZIMMERMANN
  • Patent number: 8044035
    Abstract: A trioxopyrimidine-cyclodextrin complex formed of a trioxopyrimidine derivative or a salt thereof and a water-soluble cyclodextrin derivative has improved solubility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Universite De Liege
    Inventors: Pierre Bartsch, Didier Cataldo, Richard Endele, Brigitte Evrard, Jean-Michel Foidart, Hans-Willi Krell, Gerd Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 7860007
    Abstract: A method and a system is provided for optimizing the throughput of a TCP flow from a TCP source to a TCP destination in a wireless network with the path of the flow encompassing a wireless link between a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. The throughput is optimized by using link-layer mechanisms at the wireless transmitter which are adaptive to the instantaneous TCP dynamics of the TCP flow. In particular, a cross-layer approach is disclosed which serves to tunnel information of TCP congestion control dynamics directly from the TCP based transport layer to the data link-layer which selects in response to these information modulation and/or coding schemas to transmit TCP segments via data link-layer blocks with improved TCP throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
    Inventors: Jatinder Pal Singh, Gerhard Kadel, Gerd Zimmermann, Bangnan Xu
  • Patent number: 7844312
    Abstract: A system and method for accessing information and for communication in a high-speed vehicle having a plurality of coupled units, including at least one server unit that is provided in one unit of the vehicle and is set up for making information available and for communication, a plurality of radio access points which are provided in different units and are designed for data communication with data-processing devices via radio, a data network which connects the server unit to the radio access points in terms of communication, and which has wireless communications links between adjacent coupled units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
    Inventors: Alois Macht, Norbert Grund, Wolfgang Kreher, Jose Luis Mateo Terres, Klaus Stoettinger, Gerd Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20100261672
    Abstract: A trioxopyrimidine-cyclodextrin complex formed of a trioxopyrimidine derivative or a salt thereof and a water-soluble cyclodextrin derivative has improved solubility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventors: Pierre Bartsch, Didier Cataldo, Richard Endele, Brigitte Evrand, Jean-Michel Foidart, Hans-Willi Krell, Gerd Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 7496368
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for controlling frequency selection within a wireless communication system in response to radar-like interference signals. The method comprises continuously or quasi-continuously monitoring and assessing a plurality of frequencies with respect to a radar-like interference signal and allocating a quality parameter to each assessed frequency, the quality parameter indicating the probability that the frequency is occupied. The method further comprises selecting one or more frequencies in dependence on the allocated quality parameters and subsequent frequency monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Gerd Zimmermann, Mathias Pauli, Peter Schramm, Jamshid Khun-Jush, Lennart Gafvels, Göran Malmgren
  • Patent number: 7406051
    Abstract: Interference Measurements in a Wireless Communications SystemA method and a transmitting unit for performing an interference measurement in a multiple access wireless communications system utilizing a carrier sensing technique is described. In accordance with the carrier sensing technique, it is monitored during a sensing period (Tmin) if a carrier is idle. A continuous or quasi-continuous interference measurement is performed on the carrier during a measurement period (TM) which is typically longer than the sensing period (Tmin). While performing the interference measurement, pulses are transmitted on the carrier such that an interval between the end of a pulse and the beginning of the next pulse is typically shorter than the sensing period (Tmin). The interference measurements preferably relate to detection of interference from radar signals or radar like signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jamshid Khun-Jush, Gerd Zimmermann, Mathias Pauli
  • Patent number: 7333449
    Abstract: In a packet transmission system, especially wireless transmission system, where data is transmitted in packets at different error protection levels and where the error protection level of one packet (=the succeeding packet) may differ from the error protection level of a preceding packet without providing code termination between the said preceding and the said succeeding packet the performance may degrade in case a different error protection level is used by the preceding packet and the succeeding packet. The invention proposes in these cases to insert a supplementary packet between the preceding and the succeeding packet whereby the error protection level of the supplementary packet is higher than the lowest error protection level that is used either by the preceding or the succeeding packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Gerd Zimmermann, Hui Li, Fabian Wenger, Jan Lindskog, Mathias Pauli
  • Publication number: 20080032711
    Abstract: A system and method for accessing information and for communication in a high-speed vehicle having a plurality of coupled units, including at least one server unit that is provided in one unit of the vehicle and is set up for making information available and for communication, a plurality of radio access points which are provided in different units and are designed for data communication with data-processing devices via radio, a data network which connects the server unit to the radio access points in terms of communication, and which has wireless communications links between adjacent coupled units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Alois Macht, Norbert Grund, Wolfgang Kreher, Jose Terres, Klaus Stoettinger, Gerd Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20080025216
    Abstract: A method and a system is provided for optimizing the throughput of a TCP flow from a TCP source to a TCP destination in a wireless network with the path of the flow encompassing a wireless link between a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. The throughput is optimized by using link-layer mechanisms at the wireless transmitter which are adaptive to the instantaneous TCP dynamics of the TCP flow. In particular, a cross-layer approach is disclosed which serves to tunnel information of TCP congestion control dynamics directly from the TCP based transport layer to the data link-layer which selects in response to these information modulation and/or coding schemas to transmit TCP segments via data link-layer blocks with improved TCP throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicants: Technische Universitaet Berlin, Deutsche Telekom AG
    Inventors: Jatinder Pal Singh, Gerhard Kadel, Gerd Zimmermann, Bangnan Xu