Patents by Inventor Michael Scheibe

Michael Scheibe 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: 20240070697
    Abstract: An online concierge system allows users to order items within discrete time intervals later than a time when an order was received or for short-term fulfillment when the order was received. To account for a number of shoppers available to fulfill orders during different discrete time intervals and numbers of orders for fulfillment during different discrete time intervals, the online concierge system specifies a target rate for orders fulfilled later than a specified discrete time interval and a threshold from the target rate. A trained machine learning model periodically predicts a percentage of orders being fulfilled late, with an order associated with a predicted percentage when the order was received. The online concierge system increases a price of orders associated with predicted percentages greater than the threshold from the target rate. The increased price of an order is determined from a price elasticity curve and the predicted percentage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Houtao Deng, Ji Chen, Zi Wang, Soren Zeliger, Ganesh Krishnan, Wa Yuan, Michael Scheibe
  • Patent number: 11830018
    Abstract: An online concierge system allows users to order items within discrete time intervals later than a time when an order was received or for short-term fulfillment when the order was received. To account for a number of shoppers available to fulfill orders during different discrete time intervals and numbers of orders for fulfillment during different discrete time intervals, the online concierge system specifies a target rate for orders fulfilled later than a specified discrete time interval and a threshold from the target rate. A trained machine learning model periodically predicts a percentage of orders being fulfilled late, with an order associated with a predicted percentage when the order was received. The online concierge system increases a price of orders associated with predicted percentages greater than the threshold from the target rate. The increased price of an order is determined from a price elasticity curve and the predicted percentage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
    Inventors: Houtao Deng, Ji Chen, Zi Wang, Soren Zeliger, Ganesh Krishnan, Wa Yuan, Michael Scheibe
  • Publication number: 20230034221
    Abstract: An online concierge system allows users to order items within discrete time intervals later than a time when an order was received or for short-term fulfillment when the order was received. To account for a number of shoppers available to fulfill orders during different discrete time intervals and numbers of orders for fulfillment during different discrete time intervals, the online concierge system specifies a target rate for orders fulfilled later than a specified discrete time interval and a threshold from the target rate. A trained machine learning model periodically predicts a percentage of orders being fulfilled late, with an order associated with a predicted percentage when the order was received. The online concierge system increases a price of orders associated with predicted percentages greater than the threshold from the target rate. The increased price of an order is determined from a price elasticity curve and the predicted percentage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Houtao Deng, Ji Chen, Zi Wang, Soren Zeliger, Ganesh Krishnan, Wa Yuan, Michael Scheibe
  • Patent number: 8945671
    Abstract: A process for producing coated sodium percarbonate particles by spray application of a sodium sulfate-containing aqueous solution onto sodium percarbonate particles in a fluidized bed and simultaneous evaporation of water, wherein sodium sulfate and sodium percarbonate-containing dust is used to prepare the sodium sulfate-containing aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Evonik Treibacher GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Leininger, Michael Scheibe, Harald Jakob
  • Publication number: 20100266763
    Abstract: In a process for producing coated sodium percarbonate particles by spray application of a sodium sulfate-containing aqueous solution onto sodium percarbonate particles in a fluidized bed and simultaneous evaporation of water, sodium sulfate and sodium percarbonate-containing dust is used to prepare the sodium sulfate-containing aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Leininger, Michael Scheibe, Harald Jakob
  • Publication number: 20100171230
    Abstract: The process for producing granular sodium percarbonate by fluidized bed buildup granulation comprises the spraying of an aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide and of an aqueous solution of sodium carbonate with at least one multisubstance nozzle with external mixing into a fluidized bed comprising sodium percarbonate particles and simultaneously evaporating water, and is characterized in that the solution of sodium carbonate additionally comprises sodium carbonate and/or sodium percarbonate in suspended form and is passed through a dispersing apparatus for dispersion of solids before being fed to the multisubstance nozzle. The process allows the blockage of the multisubstance nozzle to be avoided and sodium percarbonate dust to be recycled from the offgas stream of the fluidized bed into the granulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Leininger, Michael Scheibe, Lothar Kaiser, Bertram Trautvetter, Waldemar Hessberger, Marcel Verduyn, Holger Pitsch, Harald Jakob
  • Patent number: 6595008
    Abstract: A process is provided for the safe storage of sodium percarbonate in a bulk container that is substantially closed to the ambient atmosphere. A temperature is measured at at least one position inside the sodium percarbonate stored in bulk and, with an increase in temperature within the range of 0.5 to 10° C. per day, in particular 1 to 5° C. per day, dry air is passed periodically or continuously through the bulk material until the increase in temperature has fallen to a value of less than 1° C. per day in particular less than 0.5° C. per day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Michael Scheibe, Dietmar Träumer, Rainer Kohlen, Wolfgang Leonhardt, Lothar Kaiser
  • Publication number: 20020092309
    Abstract: A process is provided for the safe storage of sodium percarbonate in a bulk container that is substantially closed to the ambient atmosphere. A temperature is measured at at least one position inside the sodium percarbonate stored in bulk and, with an increase in temperature within the range of 0.5 to 10° C. per day, in particular 1 to 5° C. per day, dry air is passed periodically or continuously through the bulk material until the increase in temperature has fallen to a value of less than 1° C. per day in particular less than 0.5° C. per day.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Applicant: DEGUSSA AG
    Inventors: Michael Scheibe, Dietmar Traumer, Rainer Kohlen, Wolfgang Leonhardt, Lothar Kaiser
  • Patent number: 6239095
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of coated peroxygen compounds, in particular sodium percarbonate, by fluidized bed coating. By using a fluidized bed reactor with a radial inflow base, the passage openings of which allow the fluidized bed gas to emerge in the region of the opening at an angle of less than 35°, measured with respect to the horizontal, in the form of directed part streams, and in which are arranged spray nozzles, the pulse of which points in the same direction as the pulse of the fluidizing gas, it is possible to obtain products with an increased active oxygen stability. A circular reactor, the inflow base of which has lamellae overlapping like turbine blades and nozzles aligned in the direction of rotation of the fluidized bed is preferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Degussa-Huls Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Birgit Bertsch-Frank, Martin Bewersdorf, Lothar Kaiser, Rainer Kohlen, Ralph Overdick, Michael Scheibe