Patents by Inventor Michael Hummel
Michael Hummel 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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Patent number: 10910196Abstract: In one embodiment, a plasma processing system includes a plasma processing chamber, a substrate holder disposed in the plasma processing chamber, a coil disposed over the plasma processing chamber, and a plurality of taps configured to contact the coil at an associated contact region. The plasma processing system is configured to sustain a plasma by selecting a subset of taps from the plurality of taps to apply a power source and a reference potential.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Peter Ventzek, Alok Ranjan, Mitsunori Ohata, Michael Hummel
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Publication number: 20210027991Abstract: In one embodiment, a plasma processing system includes a plasma processing chamber, a substrate holder disposed in the plasma processing chamber, a coil disposed over the plasma processing chamber, and a plurality of taps configured to contact the coil at an associated contact region. The plasma processing system is configured to sustain a plasma by selecting a subset of taps from the plurality of taps to apply a power source and a reference potential.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Peter Ventzek, Alok Ranjan, Mitsunori Ohata, Michael Hummel
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Patent number: 10894983Abstract: Described herein is a method for amplifying a target nucleic acid sequence ta-tC-tV-tC?-tn? comprising a first amplification using a first primer pair with sequence ma-K-pC and ma-K?-pC?, and a subsequent second amplification using a second primer pair with sequence aL-aP-aK and aL?-aP?-aK?, wherein pC is the same sequence as sequence element tC. pC and pC? are 8 to 40 nucleotides in length, K comprises a 3?-terminal sequence k1-k2-s, s is a mismatch sequences preventing PCR bias, ak is the same sequence as sequence element k1, aP-aK hybridize to a contiguous sequence on sequence element ma-K, k1 is 2 to 9 nucleotides in length, aL and aL? can be any sequence, and tV is a variable region within the target nucleic acid sequence. Also described are collections of primer sets for use in the method of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: HS DIAGNOMICS GMBHInventors: Julia-Marie Ritter, Volkhard Seitz, Steffen Hennig, Michael Hummel
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Patent number: 10810197Abstract: Method and apparatus for performing a database query using a bitmap index in a data-base having a plurality of bitmap vectors, the method comprising the steps of: upon receipt of a query containing a selection condition, creating a filter bitmap based on the query input; performing a bitmap scan for the filter bitmap in order to determine at least one value of an existing matching data-base entry; determining a bitmap of the determined at least one value; creating a filtered bitmap by combining the filter bitmap with the bitmap of the determined at least one value; determining all entries in the database matching the filtered bitmap; sub-tracting the filtered bitmap from the filter bitmap, thus creating a new filter bitmap; repeating the steps, starting with the step of performing a bitmap scan based on the new filter bitmap, until the step of sub-tracting results in an empty bitmap.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jörg Bienert, Michael Hummel, Norbert Heusser
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Patent number: 10792633Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising a fluorine-containing surfactant having a cationic group, a divalent sulfur-containing group and a fluorinated group, further comprising an anion that corresponds to the cationic group of the fluorine-containing surfactant, the cationic group being an N-alkylated heterocyclic group.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: HWK-KRONBICHLER GMBHInventors: Michael Hummel, Benjamin Naier, Herwig Schottenberger, Hubert Huppertz, Gabriel Partl, Michael Noisternig
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Publication number: 20200172973Abstract: The invention relates to PCR-based clonality studies for among others early diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorders. Provided is a set of nucleic acid amplification primers comprising a forward primer, or a variant thereof, and a reverse primer, or a variant thereof, capable of amplifying a rearrangement selected from the group consisting of a VH-JH IGH rearrangement, a DH-JH IGH rearrangement, a VK-JK IGK rearrangement, a VK/intron-Kde IGK rearrangement, a V?-J? IGL rearrangement, a V?-J? TCRB rearrangement, a D?-J? TCRB rearrangement, a V?-J? TCRG rearrangement, a V?-J? TCRD rearrangement, a D?-D? TCRD rearrangement, a D?-J? TCRD rearrangement, a V?-D? TCRD rearrangement, or a translocation selected from t(11;14)(BCL1-IGH) and t(14;18)(BCL2-IGH). The primers can be used in PCR-based clonality studies for early diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorders and detection of minimal residual disease (MRD). Also provided is a kit comprising at least one set of primers of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Jacobus Johannes Maria van Dongen, Anthonie Willem Langerak, Eduardus Maria Dominicus Schuuring, Jesus Fernando San Miguel, Ramon Garcia Sanz, Antonio Parreira, John Lewis Smith, Frances Louise Lavender, Gareth John Morgan, Paul Anthony Stuart Evans, Michael Kneba, Michael Hummel, Elizabeth Anne Macintyre, Christian Bastard, Monika Brüggemann, Frederic Bernard Louis Davi
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Publication number: 20200079925Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of separating cellulose and polyester from a material comprising a blend of cellulose and polyester, said method comprising the steps of mixing the material comprising a blend of cellulose and polyester with a first portion of superbase-based ionic liquid to dissolve a first portion of cellulose and form a first cellulose solution and a first residue comprising polyester, removing the first residue comprising polyester from the first cellulose solution, and directing the first cellulose solution to one or more further processing steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2017Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Simone Haslinger, Michael Hummel, Herbert Sixta
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Publication number: 20200002848Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided A process for making a cellulose fibre or film comprising the steps of dissolving pulp in an ionic liquid containing a cationic 1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-enium [TBDH]+ moiety and an anion selected from the group according to Formula a), Formula b) and Formula c), wherein each of R, R2, R3, R4, R5, R7, R8, R9 and R10 is H or an organyl radical and X? is selected from the group consisting of halides, pseudohalides, carboxylates, alkyl sulphite, alkyl sulphate, dialkylphosphite, dialkyl phosphate, dialkyl phosphonites and dialkyl phosphonates, to provide a spinning dope, extruding the spinning dope through a spinneret to form one or more filaments, and a step selected from the group consisting of spinning cellulose fibres from the solution, and extruding a cellulose film from the solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Herbert Sixta, Michael Hummel, Kadvaël Le Boulch, Ilkka Kilpeläinen, Alistair W.T. King, Jussi Helminen, Sanna Hellsten
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Publication number: 20190376236Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a process for the conversion of cellulosic waste material into a recycled cellulose product comprising the steps of cooking the waste material in a cooking liquor to remove lignin from the waste material and provide a delignified pulp, dissolving the delignified pulp in an ionic liquid to provide a spinning dope suitable for dry jet-wet spinning in an ionic liquid solution, and subjecting the spinning dope to a further processing step to provide a recycled cellulose product, said further step selected from the group of spinning cellulose fibers for use in textiles from the solution, extruding a film product for use in packaging, regenerating the dope as a hydrogel and regenerating the dope as an aerogel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: Herbert Sixta, Yibo Ma, Michael Hummel
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Publication number: 20190153625Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cellulose-based shaped article. The method comprises subjecting a solution of lignocellulosic material, dissolved in a distillable ionic liquid, to a spinning method, wherein the ionic liquid is a diazabicyclononene (DBN)-based ionic liquid. DBN-based ionic liquids have good dissolution power, high thermal and chemical stability, lack runaway reactions and exhibit low energy consumption, due to low spinning temperatures. The shaped cellulose articles can be used as textile fibres, high-end non-woven fibres, technical fibres, films for packaging, and barriers films in batteries, as membranes and as carbon-fibre precursors.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Anne Michud, Alistair W.T. King, Arno Parviainen, Herbert Sixta, Lauri Hauru, Michael Hummel, Ilkka Kilpeläinen
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Patent number: 10280462Abstract: The invention relates to PCR-based clonality studies for among others early diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorders. Provided is a set of nucleic acid amplification primers comprising a forward primer, or a variant thereof, and a reverse primer, or a variant thereof, capable of amplifying a rearrangement selected from the group consisting of a VH-JH IGH rearrangement, a DH-JH IGH rearrangement, a VK-J? IGK rearrangement, a VK/intron-Kde IGK rearrangement, a V?-J? IGL rearrangement, a V?-J? TCRB rearrangement, a D?-J? TCRB rearrangement, a V?-J? TCRG rearrangement, a V?-J? TCRD rearrangement, a D?-D? TCRD rearrangement, a D?-J? TCRD rearrangement, a V?-D? TCRD rearrangement, or a translocation selected from t(11;14)(BCL1-IGH) and t(14;18)(BCL2-IGH). The primers can be used in PCR-based clonality studies for early diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorders and detection of minimal residual disease (MRD). Also provided is a kit comprising at least one set of primers of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Inventors: Jacobus Johannes Maria Van Dongen, Anthonie Willem Langerak, Eduardus Maria Dominicus Schuuring, Jesus Fernando San Miguel, Ramon Garcia Sanz, Antonio Parreira, John Lewis Smith, Frances Louise Lavender, Gareth John Morgan, Paul Anthony Stuart Evans, Michael Kneba, Michael Hummel, Elizabeth Anne Macintyre, Christian Bastard, Frederic Bernard Louis Davi, Monika Brüggemann
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Patent number: 10240259Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cellulose-based shaped article. The method comprises subjecting a solution of lignocellulosic material, dissolved in a distillable ionic liquid, to a spinning method, wherein the ionic liquid is a diazabicyclononene (DBN)-based ionic liquid. DBN-based ionic liquids have good dissolution power, high thermal and chemical stability, lack runaway reactions and exhibit low energy consumption, due to low spinning temperatures. The shaped cellulose articles can be used as textile fibers, high-end non-woven fibers, technical fibers, films for packaging, and barriers films in batteries, as membranes and as carbon-fiber precursors.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignees: Aalto University Foundation sr, Helsingin YliopistoInventors: Anne Michud, Alistair W. T. King, Arno Parviainen, Herbert Sixta, Lauri Hauru, Michael Hummel, Iikka Kilpeläinen
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Publication number: 20190060858Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising a fluorine-containing surfactant having a cationic group, a divalent sulfur-containing group and a fluorinated group, further comprising an anion that corresponds to the cationic group of the fluorine-containing surfactant, the cationic group being an N-alkylated heterocyclic group.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Michael Hummel, Benjamin Naier, Herwig Schottenberger, Hubert Huppertz, Gabriel Partl, Michael Noisternig
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Publication number: 20180121504Abstract: Method and apparatus for performing a database query using a bitmap index in a data-base having a plurality of bitmap vectors, the method comprising the steps of: upon receipt of a query containing a selection condition, creating a filter bitmap based on the query input; performing a bitmap scan for the filter bitmap in order to determine at least one value of an existing matching data-base entry; determining a bitmap of the determined at least one value; creating a filtered bitmap by combining the filter bitmap with the bitmap of the determined at least one value; determining all entries in the database matching the filtered bitmap; sub-tracting the filtered bitmap from the filter bitmap, thus creating a new filter bitmap; repeating the steps, starting with the step of performing a bitmap scan based on the new filter bitmap, until the step of sub-tracting results in an empty bitmap.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2016Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Jörg BIENERT, Michael HUMMEL, Norbert HEUSSER
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Patent number: 9805045Abstract: System and method to compress data records by providing data records with a binary structure; dividing the data records into several bit vectors; reducing the size of each bit vector by dividing the bit vector into consecutive partial areas of equal size, each partial area consisting of n bits, classifying the partial areas as trivial partial areas, quasi-trivial partial areas and non-trivial partial areas, combining one non-trivial or several consecutive non-trivial partial areas into one so named R block, and removing the trivial partial areas; as well as combining one quasi-trivial or several consecutive quasi-trivial partial areas into one so named O block.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: PARSTREAM GMBHInventors: Jorg Bienert, Michael Hummel, Norbert Heusser
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Publication number: 20160053407Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cellulose-based shaped article. The method comprises subjecting a solution of lignocellulosic material, dissolved in a distillable ionic liquid, to a spinning method, wherein the ionic liquid is a diazabicyclononene (DBN)-based ionic liquid. DBN-based ionic liquids have good dissolution power, high thermal and chemical stability, lack runaway reactions and exhibit low energy consumption, due to low spinning temperatures. The shaped cellulose articles can be used as textile fibres, high-end non-woven fibres, technical fibres, films for packaging, and barriers films in batteries, as membranes and as carbon-fibre precursors.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Anne Michud, Alistair W.T. King, Arno Parviainen, Herbert Sixta, Lauri Hauru, Michael Hummel, IIkka Kilpeläinen
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Patent number: 9259010Abstract: A method for producing a plait-like portion on a tubular packaging casing which accommodates a filling material, wherein the plait-like portion is at least approximately free of filling material and comprises a longitudinal plait-axis, including the steps: constricting a filled tubular packaging casing by moving a first pair of displacer elements of a first displacer unit and a second pair of displacer elements of a second displacer unit from an opened into a closed position by use of a first drive unit, creating a displacer clearance between the first and second pair of displacer elements, producing a plait-like portion by moving the second displacer unit parallel to the longitudinal plait-axis away from a narrow position in which the second displacer unit is adjacent to the first displacer unit, into a spread position in which the second displacer unit is away from the first displacer unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Poly-clip System GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Detlef Ebert, Michael Hummel
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Publication number: 20150337368Abstract: The invention relates to a method for amplifying a target nucleic acid sequence tn-tC-tV-tC?-tn? comprising a first amplification using a first primer pair with sequence ma-K-pC and ma-K?-pC?, and a subsequent second amplification using a second primer pair with sequence aL-aP-aK and aL?-aP?-aK?, wherein pC is the same sequence as sequence element tC. pC and pC? are 8 to 40 nucleotides in length, K comprises a 3?-terminal sequence k1-k2-s, s is a mismatch sequences preventing PCR bias, ak is the same sequence as sequence element k1, aP-aK hybridize to a contiguous sequence on sequence element ma-K, k1 is 2 to 9 nucleotides in length, aL and aL? can be any sequence, and tV is a variable region within said target nucleic acid sequence. The invention further relates to collections of primer sets for use in the method of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: HS DIAGNOMICS GMBHInventors: Julia-Marie RITTER, Volkhard SEITZ, Steffen HENNIG, Michael HUMMEL
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Publication number: 20150107790Abstract: A method of separating hemicellulose and cellulose by dissolution of hemicellulose from a hemicellulose-rich source, such as a pulp of any origin or from holocellulose. In the method, hemicellulose is dissolved in a solvent system comprising a cellulose solvent, which is either a ionic liquid or another direct cellulose solvent, and a molecular solvent (co-solvent), wherein said co-solvent does not dissolve cellulose, and wherein the solvent basicity and acidity of said ionic liquid or other direct cellulose solvent are adequately adjusted by the co-solvent. The present invention enables quantitative separation of cellulose and hemicellulose without any depolymerization and yield losses as occurring during conventional dissolving pulp manufacturing processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: METSA FIBRE OYInventors: Herbert Sixta, Michael Hummel, Mikhail Iakovlev, Lasse Tolonen
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Publication number: 20150099646Abstract: The invention relates to PCR-based clonality studies for among others early diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorders. Provided is a set of nucleic acid amplification primers comprising a forward primer, or a variant thereof, and a reverse primer, or a variant thereof, capable of amplifying a rearrangement selected from the group consisting of a VH-JH IGH rearrangement, a DH-JH IGH rearrangement, a VK-JK IGK rearrangement, a VK/intron-Kde IGK rearrangement, a V?-J? IGL rearrangement, a V?-J? TCRB rearrangement, a D?-J? TCRB rearrangement, a V?-J? TCRG rearrangement, a V?-J? TCRD rearrangement, a D?-D? TCRD rearrangement, a D?-J? TCRD rearrangement, a V?-D? TCRD rearrangement, or a translocation selected from t(11;14) (BCL1-IGH) and t(14;18) (BCL2-IGH). The primers can be used in PCR-based clonality studies for early diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorders and detection of minimal residual disease (MRD). Also provided is a kit comprising at least one set of primers of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2014Publication date: April 9, 2015Inventors: Jacobus Johannes Maria Van Dongen, Anthonie Willem Langerak, Eduardus Maria Dominicus Schuuring, Jesus Fernando San Miquel, Ramon Garcia Sanz, Antonio Parreira, John Lewis Smith, Frances Louise Lavender, Gareth John Morgan, Paul Anthony Stuart Evans, Michael Kneba, Michael Hummel, Elizabeth Anne Macintyre, Christian Bastard