Patents by Inventor Peter Frey
Peter Frey 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: 20240148504Abstract: A catheter device for implanting a medical implant such as a prosthetic heart valve has a handle configured to control/steer multiple sheaths of the catheter device. A handle includes a grip portion, a rotatable deployment knob and a traveler. An outer sheath is connected to the traveler and the deployment knob is operatively connected to the traveler such that the traveler and thereby the outer sheath are moved along the longitudinal axis with respect to the inner sheath. The handle includes a rotatable axial positioning knob and a rotatable deflection knob. The deployment knob is arranged proximally to the axial positioning knob.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Jeff Alan Burke, Peter D'Aquanni, Andy Edward Denison, Christopher Scott Hayden, Markus Foerster, Michael Walther, Gereon Kindler, Lukas Frey, Ole Blank, Calvin Bahr
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Publication number: 20220088270Abstract: The invention relates to methods for producing a polymeric scaffold for use in tissue engineering applications or soft tissue surgery, as well as to the produced scaffolds and an associated kit. The method features a first fast drying step of applying a mechanical compression on a polymeric gel layer and a second slow drying step of the gel up to reach a polymer mass fraction of at least 60% w/w in the final scaffold. The method allows the production of scaffolds with high regeneration and healing properties of a grafted tissue via host cell invasion and colonization, and a good suturability. These goals are achieved through the formation within the scaffold of a non-uniform architecture creating softer and stiffer areas, which is maintained even upon re-swelling of the scaffold upon hydration of the final dried product.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Peter Frey, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Hans Mattias Larsson, Elif Vardar, Eva-Maria Balet, Ganesh Vythilingam, Kalitha Pinnagoda
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Patent number: 11266764Abstract: The invention relates to methods for producing a polymeric scaffold for use in tissue engineering applications or soft tissue surgery, as well as to the produced scaffolds and an associated kit. The method features a first fast drying step of applying a mechanical compression on a polymeric gel layer and a second slow drying step of the gel up to reach a polymer mass fraction of at least 60% w/w in the final scaffold. The method allows the production of scaffolds with high regeneration and healing properties of a grafted tissue via host cell invasion and colonization, and a good suturability. These goals are achieved through the formation within the scaffold of a non-uniform architecture creating softer and stiffer areas, which is maintained even upon re-swelling of the scaffold upon hydration of the final dried product.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Regenosca SAInventors: Peter Frey, Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Hans M. Larsson, Elif Vardar, Eva-Maria Balet, Ganesh Vythilingam, Kalitha Pinnagoda
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Patent number: 11144687Abstract: Disclosed approaches monitor states of a plurality of sets of a plurality of handshake signals. Each set of handshake signals is associated with a respective one sub-circuit of a plurality of sub-circuits. For each sub-circuit, a beginning of an iteration by the sub-circuit is detected based on states of the plurality of handshake signals of the set associated with the sub-circuit. A graphics object is generated in response to detecting the beginning of the iteration. The graphics object is displayed on a display device and overlaid on a timeline associated with the sub-circuit. The graphics object has a bound that corresponds to the beginning of the iteration. The end of the iteration is detected based on the states of the associated set of handshake signals, and the graphics object is bounded on the timeline to indicate the end of the iteration.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: XILINX, INC.Inventors: Pramod Chandraiah, Roger Ng, Alain Darte, Radharamanan Radhakrishnan, Peter Frey, Kumar Deepak
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Patent number: 10995818Abstract: A torque transmission device for a powertrain of a motor vehicle has an input area and an output area. A torque path runs from the input area to the output area. A torsional vibration damping unit is positioned first, followed by a gear unit, along the torque path between the input area and the output area. The torsional vibration damping unit provides a first spatial area and an adjoining second spatial area along the torque path, and the gear unit provides an adjoining third spatial area.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Paul Weber, Daniel Pittner, Peter Hammer, Alexander Strom, Kyrill Siemens, Steffen Einenkel, Peter Frey, Wolfgang Grosspietsch, Christoph Sasse, Martin Hertel, Alexander Manger
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Publication number: 20200247229Abstract: A hybrid drive module (1) for a motor vehicle includes a housing (GG), a torque converter (TC), and an electric machine with a rotor (R) and a stator (S). The rotor (R) is arranged on a rotor carrier (RT), which is fixedly connected to a hub (N). The hub (N) is rotatably supported via at least one first bearing (L1) and is supported in radial and axial directions against a bearing shield (LS). The hub (N) is rotationally fixed to a converter housing (TCH) of the torque converter (TC) via a rivet joint (RI) or a screw connection. A drive train for a motor vehicle including such a hybrid drive module (1) is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Thomas Riedisser, Robert Reiser, Gerald Viernekes, Jürgen Dacho, Thomas Bauer, Monika Rössner, Stephan Stroph, Linus Eschenbeck, Christopher Allnoch, Erwin Wack, Mario Kensy, Peter Frey, Christian Wickel, Michael Wirachowski
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Publication number: 20190226550Abstract: A torque transmission device for a powertrain of a motor vehicle has an input area and an output area. A torque path runs from the input area to the output area. A torsional vibration damping unit is positioned first, followed by a gear unit, along the torque path between the input area and the output area. The torsional vibration damping unit provides a first spatial area and an adjoining second spatial area along the torque path, and the gear unit provides an adjoining third spatial area.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2017Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Paul WEBER, Daniel PITTNER, Peter HAMMER, Alexander STROM, Kyrill SIEMENS, Steffen EINENKEL, Peter FREY, Wolfgang GROSSPIETSCH, Christoph SASSE, Martin HERTEL, Alexander MANGER
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Publication number: 20190117838Abstract: The invention relates to methods for producing a polymeric scaffold for use in tissue engineering applications or soft tissue surgery, as wellto the produced scaffolds and an associated kit. The method features a first fast drying step of applying a as mechanical compression on a polymeric gel layer and a second slow drying step of the gel up to reach a polymer mass fraction of at least 60% w/w in the final scaffold. The method allows the production of scaffolds with high regeneration and healing properties of a grafted tissue via host cell invasion and colonization, and a good suturability. These goals are achieved through the formation within the scaffold of a non-uniform architecture creating softer and stiffer areas, which is maintained even upon re-swelling of the scaffold upon hydration of the final dried product.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Peter FREY, Jeffrey A. HUBBELL, Hans M. LARSSON, Elif VARDAR, Eva-Maria BALET, Ganesh VYTHILINGHAM, Kalitha PINNAGODA
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Publication number: 20190060522Abstract: The invention relates to a scaffold material comprising a carrier and embedded microbeads for use in tissue engineering applications such as soft tissues therapeutic treatment. The scaffold provides a short-term bulking effect coupled with a long-term functional activity. Both the carrier and the microbeads are substantially composed of natural or extracellular matrix-derived polymers, and the beads can comprise homogeneously distributed active agents, providing a regulated agent release along time. An aspect of the invention relates to a method for producing the microbeads of the invention by using an expressly designed microfluidic chip.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2016Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Peter Frey, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Matthias Lütolf, Elif Vardar, Hans Mattias Larsson, Eva-Maria Balet, Kalitha Pinnagoda, Simone Allazetta
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Patent number: 10072624Abstract: A starting element (100) for use, for example, in a drivetrain of a motor vehicle, includes a piston (310) which divides a first volume (560) that can be filled with a fluid from a second volume (570) that can be filled with a fluid, wherein the piston (310) comprises at least one fluid passage (640) which allows the fluid at least occasionally to pass through the piston (310) from the first volume (560) into the second volume (570) and/or from the second volume (570) into the first volume (560). The at least one fluid passage (640) comprises a passage component part (650) and a receiving opening (660) in the piston (310). The passage component part (650) is inserted into the receiving opening so that at least one passage opening (670) is formed which allows the fluid to pass through at least occasionally.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Ralf Fambach, Peter Frey, Michael Heuler, Reinhard Feldhaus, Horst Zinssmeister
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Patent number: 9970622Abstract: A lighting device may include a semiconductor light source arrangement, a heat sink for cooling the semiconductor light source arrangement, electrical connections for supplying power to the semiconductor light source arrangement, and a holding means. The holding means is in the form of a plastic part, at least the electrical connections and the heat sink each being embedded in the plastic material of said plastic part at least in sections.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: OSRAM GMBHInventors: Philipp Helbig, Peter Frey, Peter Helbig, Thomas Feil
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Patent number: 9777817Abstract: A clutch device has a friction transmission element which has a base with at least one friction surface, at least one control element for acting on a damping device, and at least one radial support which cooperates with a stop and has a plurality of lugs which extend at least substantially radially in direction toward the stop and which are at least substantially brought closer to the stop up to a gap before the stop when the friction transmission element is stationary, while, at speed, at least a portion of the lugs comes in contact with the stop. The lugs are connected to the base via a bend which causes an axial offset with respect to the base, the bend allows a displacement of the lugs in direction toward the energy accumulators, and the lugs are completely covered by the stop in an axial extension direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Alexander Strom, Peter Frey, Erwin Wack, Michael Heuler, Christian Wickel
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Publication number: 20160377159Abstract: A clutch device has a friction transmission element which has a base with at least one friction surface, at least one control element for acting on a damping device, and at least one radial support which cooperates with a stop and has a plurality of lugs which extend at least substantially radially in direction toward the stop and which are at least substantially brought closer to the stop up to a gap before the stop when the friction transmission element is stationary, while, at speed, at least a portion of the lugs comes in contact with the stop. The lugs are connected to the base via a bend which causes an axial offset with respect to the base, the bend allows a displacement of the lugs in direction toward the energy accumulators, and the lugs are completely covered by the stop in an axial extension direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Alexander STROM, Peter FREY, Erwin WACK, Michael HEULER, Christian WICKEL
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Patent number: 9453638Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting module includes a housing, at least one cooling body accommodated in the housing wherein the cooling body is thermally connected to at least one semiconductor light source, an active cooling device accommodated in the housing, and at least one electronics unit accommodated in the housing, at least for actuating the at least one semiconductor light source, wherein the housing has a leadthrough opening, and the at least one semiconductor light source is arranged in the region of the leadthrough opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: OSRAM GMBHInventors: Roland Fiederling, Peter Frey, Harald Kaps, Jenny Trommer
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Publication number: 20160215948Abstract: A lighting device may include a semiconductor light source arrangement, a heat sink for cooling the semiconductor light source arrangement, electrical connections for supplying power to the semiconductor light source arrangement, and a holding means. The holding means is in the form of a plastic part, at least the electrical connections and the heat sink each being embedded in the plastic material of said plastic part at least in sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Philipp Helbig, Peter Frey, Peter Helbig, Thomas Feil
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Publication number: 20150374807Abstract: The present invention is related to the fields of molecular biology, virology, immunology and medicine. The invention provides a composition comprising an ordered and repetitive antigen or antigenic determinant array, and in particular an A?1-peptide-VLP-composition. More specifically, the invention provides a composition comprising a virus-like particle and at least one A?1-6 peptide bound thereto. The invention also provides a process for producing the conjugates and the ordered and repetitive arrays, respectively. The compositions of the invention are useful in the production of vaccines for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and as a pharmaccine to prevent or cure Alzheimer's disease and to efficiently induce immune responses, in particular antibody responses. Furthermore, the compositions of the invention are particularly useful to efficiently induce self-specific immune, responses within the indicated context.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: Novartis AGInventors: Martin F. Bachmann, Alain Tissot, Rainer Ortmann, Rainer Martin Lueoend, Matthias Staufenbiel, Peter Frey
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Patent number: 9175760Abstract: A starting element for transmitting torque from a drive-side rotational input (14) of the starting element to a driven hub (8) includes a hydrodynamic torque converter (4) which has a turbine coupled to the driven hub (8) so as to be fixed with respect to rotation relative to it and which comprises a turbine shell (56) with turbine blades (22) arranged therein. A maximum extension of the turbine shell (56) opposite an axial direction (12) terminates at a first axial position (53), and an impeller (20) located opposite the turbine in the axial direction (12). A stator (24) is arranged between the turbine and the impeller (22) and is coupled via a stator flange (58) to a freewheel (52) adjoining the driven hub (8) in an axial direction (12). A center of the freewheel (52) is located at a second axial position (54). A difference between the first axial position (53) and the second axial position (54) is greater than a predetermined minimum value.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Georg Mencher, Peter Frey, Jörg Sudau
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Patent number: 9116280Abstract: The holding frame is equipped for holding at least one optical element, the holding frame consisting of an opaque material.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter HaftungInventors: Peter Frey, Thomas Reiners, Ralf Vollmer
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Publication number: 20150202281Abstract: The present invention is related to the fields of molecular biology, virology, immunology and medicine. The invention provides a composition comprising an ordered and repetitive antigen or antigenic determinant array. The invention also provides a process for producing an antigen or antigenic determinant in an ordered and repetitive array. The ordered and repetitive antigen or antigenic determinant is useful in the production of vaccines for the treatment of infectious diseases, the treatment of allergies and as a pharmaccine to prevent or cure cancer and to efficiently induce self-specific immune responses, in particular antibody responses.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2013Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicants: CYTOS BIOTECHNOLOGY AG, NOVARTIS PHARMA AGInventors: Wolfgang A. RENNER, Martin Bachmann, Alain Tissot, Patrick Maurer, Franziska Lechner, Peter Sebbel, Christine Piossek, Rainer Ortmann, Rainer Lüönd, Matthias Staufenbiel, Peter Frey
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Patent number: 9080541Abstract: A starting element has a housing (4) and a guide pin (6) for centering the starting element during assembly. The guide pin (6) is made of sheet metal and is connected to the housing (4) by means of a positive connection. A method of producing such housing of a starter element is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventor: Peter Frey