Patents by Inventor MARCEL ACKERMANN
MARCEL ACKERMANN 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).
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Publication number: 20230255751Abstract: A method and system provide an ophthalmic lens including a lens body having a chamber therein, a reservoir module coupled with the lens body and an optical fluid. At least part of the lens body is flexible. The reservoir module includes a reservoir and a heat sensitive portion bordering the reservoir. The reservoir has a reservoir volume and is fluidically connected with the chamber. The heat sensitive portion has a shape responsive to a temperature of at least forty five degrees Celsius such that the reservoir volume changes in response to at least part of the heat sensitive portion reaching the temperature. The optical fluid resides in the chamber and the reservoir. A change in the reservoir volume flows a portion of the optical fluid between the reservoir and the chamber such that the flexible portion of the lens body undergoes a shape change corresponding to a base power change.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: AHMAD HADBA, RAMIRO RIBEIRO, DOUGLAS SCHLUETER, MARCEL ACKERMANN, LUKAS SCHEIBLER, STEFAN TROLLER
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Patent number: 11666432Abstract: A method and system provide an ophthalmic lens including a lens body having a chamber therein, a reservoir module coupled with the lens body and an optical fluid. At least part of the lens body is flexible. The reservoir module includes a reservoir and a heat sensitive portion bordering the reservoir. The reservoir has a reservoir volume and is fluidically connected with the chamber. The heat sensitive portion has a shape responsive to a temperature of at least forty five degrees Celsius such that the reservoir volume changes in response to at least part of the heat sensitive portion reaching the temperature. The optical fluid resides in the chamber and the reservoir. A change in the reservoir volume flows a portion of the optical fluid between the reservoir and the chamber such that the flexible portion of the lens body undergoes a shape change corresponding to a base power change.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Alcon Inc.Inventors: Ahmad Hadba, Ramiro Ribeiro, Douglas Schlueter, Marcel Ackermann, Lukas Scheibler, Stefan Troller
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Publication number: 20220274803Abstract: An elevator operating device for a floor comprises a touch-sensitive screen. Call symbols are displayed on a user interface, one of which has to be touched in order to input a character stored for this call symbol. In order to enter a two-digit destination floor, the passenger leaves their finger on the touch surface after inputting a first character, whereby the elevator operating device recognizes that the passenger has limited vision. The elevator operating device registers a second character if it detects a confirmation action for the second character without recognizing that the finger has been lifted from the touch surface. As long as the finger is touching the touch surface, no destination call is generated; the destination call is only generated when the passenger lifts their finger, thus indicating that the input has been completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Marcel ACKERMANN, Nicolas HÄFLIGER
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Publication number: 20220242695Abstract: An elevator system in which an elevator car can be moved between floors in a manner controlled by an elevator controller is described. A car call device is communicatively connected to the elevator controller for inputting a destination floor is arranged in the elevator car. Elevator operation devices are communicatively connected to the elevator controller are arranged on the floors for the input of calls. An elevator operation device has a touch-sensitive screen system equipped with a substantially smooth touch surface and which responds with haptically perceptible feedback to a touch of the touch surface by a passenger.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Marcel ACKERMANN, Nicolas HÄFLIGER
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Publication number: 20220127111Abstract: An elevator installation has elevator operating devices arranged on floors of a building and communicatively connected to an elevator controller. The elevator operating devices include main operating devices configured for inputting a destination floor desired by a passenger and for outputting travel information, and at least one secondary operating device arranged on one of the floors. The secondary operating device is next to the main operating device on the one floor and is communicatively connected to the elevator controller. The secondary operating device has a touch-sensitive screen system that confirms a destination floor, input by touch, by a tactilely perceptible feedback in order to support a passenger with a physical limitation when inputting a call. The elevator controller determines travel information for the destination floor input on the secondary operating device and communicates this information to the passenger by the main operating device arranged next to the secondary operating device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Marcel Ackermann, Nicolas Häfliger
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Patent number: 10786348Abstract: A method and system provide an ophthalmic lens including a lens body having a chamber therein, a reservoir module coupled with the lens body and an optical fluid. At least part of the lens body is flexible. The reservoir module includes a reservoir and a heat sensitive portion bordering the reservoir. The reservoir has a reservoir volume and is fluidically connected with the chamber. The heat sensitive portion has a shape responsive to a temperature of at least forty five degrees Celsius such that the reservoir volume changes in response to at least part of the heat sensitive portion reaching the temperature. The optical fluid resides in the chamber and the reservoir. A change in the reservoir volume flows a portion of the optical fluid between the reservoir and the chamber such that the flexible portion of the lens body undergoes a shape change corresponding to a base power change.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Alcon Inc.Inventors: Ahmad Hadba, Ramiro Ribeiro, Douglas Schlueter, Marcel Ackermann, Lukas Scheibler, Stefan Troller
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Publication number: 20200253725Abstract: A method and system provide an ophthalmic lens including a lens body having a chamber therein, a reservoir module coupled with the lens body and an optical fluid. At least part of the lens body is flexible. The reservoir module includes a reservoir and a heat sensitive portion bordering the reservoir. The reservoir has a reservoir volume and is fluidically connected with the chamber. The heat sensitive portion has a shape responsive to a temperature of at least forty five degrees Celsius such that the reservoir volume changes in response to at least part of the heat sensitive portion reaching the temperature. The optical fluid resides in the chamber and the reservoir. A change in the reservoir volume flows a portion of the optical fluid between the reservoir and the chamber such that the flexible portion of the lens body undergoes a shape change corresponding to a base power change.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: AHMAD HADBA, RAMIRO RIBEIRO, DOUGLAS SCHLUETER, MARCEL ACKERMANN, LUKAS SCHEIBLER, STEFAN TROLLER
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Publication number: 20190076243Abstract: A method and system provide an ophthalmic lens including a lens body having a chamber therein, a reservoir module coupled with the lens body and an optical fluid. At least part of the lens body is flexible. The reservoir module includes a reservoir and a heat sensitive portion bordering the reservoir. The reservoir has a reservoir volume and is fluidically connected with the chamber. The heat sensitive portion has a shape responsive to a temperature of at least forty five degrees Celsius such that the reservoir volume changes in response to at least part of the heat sensitive portion reaching the temperature. The optical fluid resides in the chamber and the reservoir. A change in the reservoir volume flows a portion of the optical fluid between the reservoir and the chamber such that the flexible portion of the lens body undergoes a shape change corresponding to a base power change.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: AHMAD HADBA, RAMIRO RIBEIRO, DOUGLAS SCHLUETER, MARCEL ACKERMANN, LUKAS SCHEIBLER, STEFAN TROLLER
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Patent number: 10159566Abstract: A method and system provide an ophthalmic lens including a lens body having a chamber therein, a reservoir module coupled with the lens body and an optical fluid. At least part of the lens body is flexible. The reservoir module includes a reservoir and a heat sensitive portion bordering the reservoir. The reservoir has a reservoir volume and is fluidically connected with the chamber. The heat sensitive portion has a shape responsive to a temperature of at least forty five degrees Celsius such that the reservoir volume changes in response to at least part of the heat sensitive portion reaching the temperature. The optical fluid resides in the chamber and the reservoir. A change in the reservoir volume flows a portion of the optical fluid between the reservoir and the chamber such that the flexible portion of the lens body undergoes a shape change corresponding to a base power change.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Ahmad Hadba, Ramiro Ribeiro, Douglas Schlueter, Marcel Ackermann, Lukas Scheibler, Stefan Troller
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Patent number: 10049375Abstract: A system is disclosed that identifies early adopter users by creating a directed graph of item access information for an item category and performing a page rank type process on the item access information. This directed graph may be created in a reverse temporal order. The early adopter users can be identified as the users with nodes in the directed graph that have a threshold number or rate of incoming links directly or indirectly pointing towards the nodes. Using the early adopter users as a sample, systems herein can determine whether to recommend an item based on the popularity of the item with respect to the early adopter users. Further, systems herein can determine an inventory level to maintain for an item based on the popularity of the item with respect to the early adopter users.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Giovanni Zappella, Marcel Ackermann, Rodolphe Jenatton, David Spike Palfrey, Samuel Theodore Sandler
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Publication number: 20180085213Abstract: A method and system provide an ophthalmic lens including a lens body having a chamber therein, a reservoir module coupled with the lens body and an optical fluid. At least part of the lens body is flexible. The reservoir module includes a reservoir and a heat sensitive portion bordering the reservoir. The reservoir has a reservoir volume and is fluidically connected with the chamber. The heat sensitive portion has a shape responsive to a temperature of at least forty five degrees Celsius such that the reservoir volume changes in response to at least part of the heat sensitive portion reaching the temperature. The optical fluid resides in the chamber and the reservoir. A change in the reservoir volume flows a portion of the optical fluid between the reservoir and the chamber such that the flexible portion of the lens body undergoes a shape change corresponding to a base power change.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2016Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: AHMAD HADBA, RAMIRO RIBEIRO, DOUGLAS SCHLUETER, MARCEL ACKERMANN, LUKAS SCHEIBLER, STEFAN TROLLER