Patents by Inventor Michael Nienhaus

Michael Nienhaus 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).

  • Patent number: 11880880
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for providing an efficient and time-saving shopping experience by allowing a user to initiate a purchase of items corresponding to items included in an item list (e.g., shopping list) while minimizing user interactions. A user may initiate a shopping experience via a voice command and/or an interaction with a user interface associated with a list management service. Using keywords included in the item list, a list of recommended items that correspond to items included in the shopping list and are available for purchase at a particular store can be determined and presented to the user. Item listings may be preselected for purchase based at least in part on a determined likelihood that the user will purchase the item. The user can review the recommended items and select a purchase component (e.g., add-to-cart component, buy component), that upon selection, initiates the purchase of the selected items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Guang Liu, Shashank Agarwal, Andrew Michael Nienhaus, Ruimin Zhang, Gabriela Sudirja, Laura Vig, Isha Vinod Pendke
  • Patent number: 11682063
    Abstract: Techniques described herein include systems and methods for utilizing a shopping list generated by a user in one or more shopping list features. A list of items including keywords not associated with specific items may be received. A user interface may be updated to present the list of items, with a first area of the user interface corresponding to uncompleted tasks associated with a keyword of the list, and a second area corresponding to completed tasks associated with a keyword of the list. One or more sensors may receive information about an item. Input about an interaction with the user interface and a keyword of the list may be received. The user interface may be updated to move the keyword of the list from the first area to the second area. A mapping of the keyword to the item may be updated by a computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Guang Liu, Matthew Charles Johnson, Timothy R Heithaus, Ruimin Zhang, Jason Stephen Merron, Neven Tomislav Boric Bargetto, Andrew Michael Nienhaus
  • Publication number: 20210358012
    Abstract: Techniques described herein include systems and methods for utilizing a shopping list generated by a user in one or more shopping list features. A list of items including keywords not associated with specific items may be received. A user interface may be updated to present the list of items, with a first area of the user interface corresponding to uncompleted tasks associated with a keyword of the list, and a second area corresponding to completed tasks associated with a keyword of the list. One or more sensors may receive information about an item. Input about an interaction with the user interface and a keyword of the list may be received. The user interface may be updated to move the keyword of the list from the first area to the second area. A mapping of the keyword to the item may be updated by a computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Guang Liu, Matthew Charles Johnson, Timothy R. Heithaus, Ruimin Zhang, Jason Stephen Merron, Neven Tomislav Boric Bargetto, Andrew Michael Nienhaus
  • Patent number: 9175606
    Abstract: A method for flushing a section of a fuel system of a burner of a gas turbine is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a feed line for feeding fuel from a fuel source to the burner, providing a first feed point close to the burner and a second feed point remote from the burner in the feed line in each case for feeding a medium into the feed line, feeding the medium via the first feed point, and discharging, via the burner, the fuel which is in the feed line between the first feed point and the burner, and also feeding the medium via the second feed point, and discharging, via the first feed point, the fuel which is in the feed line between the second feed point and the first feed point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Carsten Bassmann, Volker Ertle, Michael Nienhaus, Horst Uwe Rauh, Damian Razowski, Uwe Scheuer, Ulrich Wagner
  • Patent number: 8678034
    Abstract: A quick acting control valve for a steam turbine is provided. The quick acting control valve includes a valve box and a control valve cone which is arranged in the valve box so as to be displaceable along its center axis, whereby the control valve cone may be brought into an open position in which the control valve cone, with its control valve cone surface is lifted off the valve box and into a closed position in which the control valve cone rests against the valve box with its control valve cone surface, and a quick acting valve piston which is arranged in the valve box so as to face the back of the control valve cone facing away from the control valve cone surface, the quick acting control valve piston, on its outer peripheral edge, always resting on the valve box in a steam-tight manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Bennauer, Ningsih Flohr, Michael Nienhaus, Christoph Schindler, Dirk Weltersbach
  • Publication number: 20120056114
    Abstract: A quick acting control valve for a steam turbine is provided. The quick acting control valve includes a valve box and a control valve cone which is arranged in the valve box so as to be displaceable along its center axis, whereby the control valve cone may be brought into an open position in which the control valve cone, with its control valve cone surface is lifted off the valve box and into a closed position in which the control valve cone rests against the valve box with its control valve cone surface, and a quick acting valve piston which is arranged in the valve box so as to face the back of the control valve cone facing away from the control valve cone surface, the quick acting control valve piston, on its outer peripheral edge, always resting on the valve box in a steam-tight manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Martin Bennauer, Ningsih Flohr, Michael Nienhaus, Christoph Schindler, Dirk Weltersbach
  • Publication number: 20110146807
    Abstract: A method for flushing a section of a fuel system of a burner of a gas turbine is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a feed line for feeding fuel from a fuel source to the burner, providing a first feed point close to the burner and a second feed point remote from the burner in the feed line in each case for feeding a medium into the feed line, feeding the medium via the first feed point, and discharging, via the burner, the fuel which is in the feed line between the first feed point and the burner, and also feeding the medium via the second feed point, and discharging, via the first feed point, the fuel which is in the feed line between the second feed point and the first feed point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Carsten Bassmann, Volker Ertle, Michael Nienhaus, Horst Uwe Rauh, Damian Razowski, Uwe Scheuer, Ulrich Wagner