Patents by Inventor Juergen Hofmann

Juergen 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: 20240120507
    Abstract: A process is proposed for producing a bipolar plate for an electrochemical device, said process comprising providing a first main plate body and a second main plate body as fibrous shaped bodies including carbon fibers and each having a joining face and an opposing useful face, infiltrating the main plate bodies with at least one carbon allotrope, locally applying silicon to respective joining sites in the joining faces, placing the joining faces against one another, such that the joining sites rest against one another and the useful faces of the two main plate bodies face away from one another, and at least locally heating the joining sites, such that the silicon melts and reacts with adjoining carbon to form a silicon-carbon bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Christian Metzner, Michael Hofmann, Florian Vogel, Jürgen Steinwandel, Helmut Piringer
  • Patent number: 11952601
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel recombinant clostridial neurotoxins exhibiting an increased duration of effect without a delayed onset of effect and to methods for the manufacture of such recombinant clostridial neurotoxins. These novel recombinant clostridial neurotoxins comprise a domain consisting of proline, alanine, serine, threonine, glycine and glutamate residues, and the methods comprise the steps of inserting a nucleic acid sequence coding for said domain into a nucleic acid sequence coding for a parental clostridial neurotoxin and expression of the recombinant nucleic acid sequence comprising said domain-coding sequence in a host cell. The invention further relates to novel recombinant single-chain precursor clostridial neurotoxins used in such methods, nucleic acid sequences encoding such recombinant single-chain precursor clostridial neurotoxins, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the recombinant clostridial neurotoxin with an increased duration of effect without a delayed onset of effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MERZ PHARMA GMBH & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Fred Hofmann, Marcel Jurk, Manuela López De La Paz, Daniel Scheps, Jürgen Frevert
  • Publication number: 20240114475
    Abstract: Geo-fenced bandwidth switching for Reduced Capability NR devices is provided. An apparatus may include at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions. The stored instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the terminal device at least to receive, from a network element, information comprising a plurality of characteristics of one or more precision zones configured for the terminal device. The apparatus is further caused at least to apply a precision zone selected from the one or more precision zones in accordance with a current location of the terminal device in communication of a reference signal for positioning of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan KEATING, Diomidis MICHALOPOULOS, Stepan KUCERA, Jürgen HOFMANN, Berthold PANZNER
  • Publication number: 20240085893
    Abstract: A method serves to operate a transport system, in particular a multi-carrier system, that comprises a plurality of linear motors that are arranged in a row and have a guide track, a plurality of transport elements that can be moved along the guide track by means of the linear motors, and a plurality of stations along the guide track, wherein each of the transport elements is associated with one of the stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Steffen Hofmann, Jürgen Heid
  • Patent number: 11671938
    Abstract: A network element estimates a position of a user equipment served by a first network and a second network. At the network element, at least one memory and computer program code are configured to, with at least one processor, cause the network element to: determine first position measurement information for the user equipment in the first network; obtain position assistance data associated with the second network, the position assistance data including at least second position measurement information for the user equipment in the second network; obtain frequency offset information and time offset information for transmissions in the first network and transmissions in the second network; and estimate a position of the user equipment based on the first position measurement information, the second position measurement information, the frequency offset information and the time offset information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Benny Vejlgaard, Johannes Harrebek, Ryan Keating, Jürgen Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20220389242
    Abstract: A filler for wall coating compositions, wherein said filler consists of particles, wherein said particles are fired mixtures of 40 to 70% by weight of clay minerals 5 to 32% by weight of crystalline silicic acids 10 to 45% by weight of feldspar 0 to 20% by weight of other aggregates, and wherein said particles have a d50 grain size of from 1 ?m to 40 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Amberger Kaolinwerke Eduard Kick GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Angela Hullin, Hans-Jürgen Hofmann, Christian Kohl
  • Patent number: 11510056
    Abstract: Network initiated re-authorization for coverage enhancement It is provided a method, comprising checking if a device is authorized for initiating an access in an extended coverage; inhibiting the device to initiate the access while the device camps in the extended coverage and the device is not authorized for the initiating of the access in the extended coverage; monitoring if a paging message for the device is received while the device camps in the extended coverage, wherein the paging message is to initiate a signaling access in the extended coverage for a signaling procedure to get the latest status of coverage authorization; allowing the device to initiate the signaling access while the device camps in the extended coverage if the paging message is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Srinivasan Selvaganapathy, Hannu Petri Hietalahti, Bruno Landais, Juergen Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20220348497
    Abstract: Granules for a roof coating, wherein said granules comprise particles that have a coating, wherein said coating comprises at least one layer of an inorganic powder in a binder, wherein said inorganic powder has a d50 grain size of from 0.5 to 25 ?m, and wherein a hydrophobizing and/or oleophobizing agent is present on said coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Angela HULLIN, Hans-Jürgen HOFMANN, Christian KOHL
  • Patent number: 11388693
    Abstract: A technique is provided for receiving, by a user device from a serving base station, a list of base stations including base station identities and/or respective information about their physical channels used for broadcast signaling for which a timing advance measurement is being requested, receiving, by the user device, a positioning reference identifier associated with a timing advance measurement procedure with respect to the user device and one or more base stations identified in the list, and sending, by the user device to one or more of the base stations identified in the list, an uplink signal including a synchronization sequence and the positioning reference identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Srinivasan Selvaganapathy, Juergen Hofmann, Sathiaseelan Sundaralingam, Muneender Chiranji, Hartmut Wilhelm
  • Publication number: 20220159612
    Abstract: A network element estimates a position of a user equipment served by a first network and a second network. At the network element, at least one memory and computer program code are configured to, with at least one processor, cause the network element to: determine first position measurement information for the user equipment in the first network; obtain position assistance data associated with the second network, the position assistance data including at least second position measurement information for the user equipment in the second network; obtain frequency offset information and time offset information for transmissions in the first network and transmissions in the second network; and estimate a position of the user equipment based on the first position measurement information, the second position measurement information, the frequency offset information and the time offset information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Benny Vejlgaard, Johannes Harrebek, Ryan Keating, Jürgen Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11234210
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to determine by a network node of a serving cell of a communication network signaling including at least one parameter indicating that page reception on a paging channel of a neighbor cell can be performed by a network device without system information acquisition by the network device; and send the signaling toward the network device. Further, a method and apparatus to receive by a network device of a communication network from a serving cell signaling including at least one parameter indicating that page reception on a neighbor cell by a network device can be performed by the network device without system information acquisition by the network device; and based on the signaling, listen for a paging message on a paging channel associated with the neighbor cell without system information acquisition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Srinivasan Selvaganapathy, Jürgen Hofmann, Hartmut Wilhelm, Muneender Chiranji
  • Patent number: 11222013
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for building a library of custom named entities for a database environment and using the library for processing natural language search queries. At configuration time, custom named entities are extracted or derived from a search model or the database environment. Records for the custom entities with associated database unique identifiers and tags are stored in a library. Custom entities can be based on labels of database objects, variants thereof, or domain values. At search time, a natural language query is tokenized and matched with custom entities from the library, and with other predefined named entities, to obtained structured search descriptors. For more efficient search, compound entities can be identified in the search string, comprising a custom entity and a value, or a custom entity and another token sequence. Variations and examples are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Erika Fonseca de Lima, Juergen Hofmann, Thomas Finke
  • Patent number: 11018548
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical machine (1) comprising a rotor (4) which is rotatably mounted around a rotation axis (5) extending in the axial direction (3) in bearing devices (16, 17), a stator (7) having two axial ends, an air gap between rotor and stator, an interior chamber (10) encompassing the stator (7) and rotor (4), a sleeve (11) encompassing a first part (111) which encloses the interior chamber (10), a frame (12) having a first (123) and a second (121) longitudinal support (123), a first (122) and a second (124) cross-support, and a dividing device (2) on the frame (12). The stator (7) comprises a fastening device (15) for connection to the frame (12) and the dividing device (2) can make the interior chamber accessible from the outside in a plane parallel to the frame (12). The invention further relates to a collection, to a frame (12), to a sleeve (11), or to a service or production method of such an electrical machine (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Konrad Brandl, Christian Deeg, Gerhard Dorr, Benjamin Eichinger, Wolfgang Johann Greul, Jürgen Hofmann, Eric Joseph, Ekkehard Ressel, Uwe Scharf, Mathias Scherer, Sebastian Weiss, Ulrich Werner, Michael Stegherr
  • Publication number: 20210149901
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for building a library of custom named entities for a database environment and using the library for processing natural language search queries. At configuration time, custom named entities are extracted or derived from a search model or the database environment. Records for the custom entities with associated database unique identifiers and tags are stored in a library. Custom entities can be based on labels of database objects, variants thereof, or domain values. At search time, a natural language query is tokenized and matched with custom entities from the library, and with other predefined named entities, to obtained structured search descriptors. For more efficient search, compound entities can be identified in the search string, comprising a custom entity and a value, or a custom entity and another token sequence. Variations and examples are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: SAP SE
    Inventors: Erika Fonseca de Lima, Juergen Hofmann, Thomas Finke
  • Patent number: 10973057
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a modified multi-slot random access channel (RACH) transmission, such as an extended coverage RACH (EC-RACH) transmission, are provided. One method includes transmitting, by a mobile station associated with a network, a dual slot hybrid random access channel including a long burst followed by one access burst or including one access burst followed by one long burst. Two consecutive time slots may be used for the random access channel transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Juergen Hofmann, Sathiaseelan Sundaralingam, Hartmut Wilhelm, Srinivasan Selvaganapathy, Muneender Chiranji
  • Publication number: 20200367195
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to determine by a network node of a serving cell of a communication network signaling including at least one parameter indicating that page reception on a paging channel of a neighbor cell can be performed by a network device without system information acquisition by the network device; and send the signaling toward the network device. Further, a method and apparatus to receive by a network device of a communication network from a serving cell signaling including at least one parameter indicating that page reception on a neighbor cell by a network device can be performed by the network device without system information acquisition by the network device; and based on the signaling, listen for a paging message on a paging channel associated with the neighbor cell without system information acquisition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Srinivasan SELVAGANAPATHY, Jürgen HOFMANN, Hartmut WILHELM, Muneender CHIRANJI
  • Patent number: 10831114
    Abstract: A lithography machine includes an optical element, an interface coupled to the optical element, and a component which is separate from the interface. The interface is directly connected to the optical element. The optical element includes an engaging section. The component has a counter engaging section configured to engage with the engaging section of the optical element to connect the component form-fittingly and/or force-fittingly to the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Björn Liebaug, Franz-Josef Stickel, Jürgen Hofmann, Dietmar Dürr
  • Publication number: 20200059966
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a modified multi-slot random access channel (RACH) transmission, such as an extended coverage RACH (EC-RACH) transmission, are provided. One method includes transmitting, by a mobile station associated with a network, a dual slot hybrid random access channel including a long burst followed by one access burst or including one access burst followed by one long burst. Two consecutive time slots may be used for the random access channel transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Juergen HOFMANN, Sathiaseelan SUNDARALINGAM, Hartmut WILHELM, Srinivasan SELVAGANAPATHY, Muneender CHIRANJI
  • Publication number: 20200008063
    Abstract: Network initiated re-authorization for coverage enhancement It is provided a method, comprising checking if a device is authorized for initiating an access in an extended coverage; inhibiting the device to initiate the access while the device camps in the extended coverage and the device is not authorized for the initiating of the access in the extended coverage; monitoring if a paging message for the device is received while the device camps in the extended coverage, wherein the paging message is to initiate a signaling access in the extended coverage for a signaling procedure to get the latest status of coverage authorization; allowing the device to initiate the signaling access while the device camps in the extended coverage if the paging message is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Srinivasan Selvaganapathy, Hannu Petri Hietalahti, Bruno Landais, Juergen Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20190377273
    Abstract: A lithography machine includes an optical element, an interface coupled to the optical element, and a component which is separate from the interface. The interface is directly connected to the optical element. The optical element includes an engaging section. The component has a counter engaging section configured to engage with the engaging section of the optical element to connect the component form-fittingly and/or force-fittingly to the optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Björn Liebaug, Franz-Josef Stickel, Jürgen Hofmann, Dietmar Dürr