Patents by Inventor Stefan Parhofer

Stefan Parhofer 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: 11068548
    Abstract: In a first embodiments a system for communication between at least two nodes is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: PALITREE GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Parhofer, Christian Lind
  • Publication number: 20200259711
    Abstract: In a first embodiments a system for communication between at least two nodes is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan PARHOFER, Christian LIND
  • Patent number: 8683833
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a handle set for a lock with a latch, the handle set having an authentication circuit and actuator in the interior handle that allow access to authenticated transponders. The present invention also provides a device and method for transmitting a rotational movement and force in an electronic lock, wherein the transmission takes place in a coupled state and not in a decoupled state and wherein the transmission of force does not damage an actuator that requires little energy to change between the coupled and decoupled states. A coupling cartridge of an electronic lock can easily be handed. The electronic lock can be retrofitted in installed mortise locks and used with cylindrical locks. The electronic lock can include a security feature that prohibits the electronic lock from changing between the coupled and decoupled states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Simonsvoss Technologies AG
    Inventors: James S. Marschalek, Warren A. Simonsen, Ludger Voss, Herbert Meyerle, Norbert Voss, Stefan Parhofer
  • Patent number: 8020332
    Abstract: Device for the storage of a gun with a base, a safety unit for the secure storage of the gun on the base and a controller, wherein the safety unit can be inserted at least partially into the barrel and/or a cartridge chamber of the gun and comprises a first safety section, which can be brought into a safety state, in which the safety unit is secured in the gun, and into a release state, in which the safety unit can be separated from the gun, and the controller brings the first safety section into its release state when a user authorization is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Armatix GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Friedrich Giebel, Daniel Graser, Ernst Mauch, Stefan Parhofer, Vaso Pavlicic, Dirk Steuwer
  • Patent number: 8011217
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a handle set for a lock with a latch, the handle set having an authentication circuit and actuator in the interior handle that allow access to authenticated transponders. The present invention also provides a device and method for transmitting a rotational movement and force in an electronic lock, wherein the transmission takes place in a coupled state and not in a decoupled state and wherein the transmission of force does not damage an actuator that requires little energy to change between the coupled and decoupled states. The handle set can include a coupling cartridge that can be easily handed. The electronic lock can be retrofitted in installed mortise locks and used with cylindrical locks. The electronic lock can include a security feature that prohibits the electronic lock from changing between the coupled and decoupled states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: SimonsVoss Technologies AG
    Inventors: James S Marschalek, Warren A. Simonsen, Ludger Voss, Herbert Meyerle, Norbert Voss, Stefan Parhofer
  • Patent number: 7845201
    Abstract: An electronic access control device with an actuator that requires little energy to change between the coupled and decoupled states. The actuator can have levers that interact to bias the control actuator in the decoupled state. The actuator can be changed between coupled and decoupled states by magnetizing and demagnetizing an armature that interacts with the levers. The electronic lock can include a security apparatus that prohibits the electronic lock from changing between the coupled and decoupled states when an external magnetic field is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: SimonsVoss Technologies AG
    Inventors: Herbert Meyerle, Norbert Voss, Ludger Voss, James S. Marschalek, Warren A. Simonsen, Stefan Parhofer
  • Publication number: 20100263253
    Abstract: Device for the storage of a gun with a base, a safety unit for the secure storage of the gun on the base and a controller, wherein the safety unit can be inserted at least partially into the barrel and/or a cartridge chamber of the gun and comprises a first safety section, which can be brought into a safety state, in which the safety unit is secured in the gun, and into a release state, in which the safety unit can be separated from the gun, and the controller brings the first safety section into its release state when a user authorization is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Armatix GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Friedrich Giebel, Daniel Graser, Ernst Mauch, Stefan Parhofer, Vaso Pavlicic, Dirk Steuwer
  • Patent number: 7735253
    Abstract: Device for the storage of a gun with a base, a safety unit for the secure storage of the gun on the base and a controller, wherein the safety unit can be inserted at least partially into the barrel and/or a cartridge chamber of the gun and comprises a first safety section, which can be brought into a safety state, in which the safety unit is secured in the gun, and into a release state, in which the safety unit can be separated from the gun, and the controller brings the first safety section into its release state when a user authorization is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Armatix GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Friedrich Giebel, Daniel Graser, Ernst Mauch, Stefan Parhofer, Vaso Pavlicic, Dirk Steuwer
  • Patent number: 7703229
    Abstract: Safety device for a hand-held weapon comprising a transponder for authenticating at least one authorized weapon user carrying or wearing the Transponder or for authenticating an allowed area for using the weapon. The transponder is adapted to emit a wireless preferably cryptified authenticating signal. The safety device further comprises a safety component for a grip of the weapon which is adapted to be necessarily activated by a hand of the user when the hand is holding the grip of the weapon and which upon activation emits a wireless request signal. The transponder is adapted to emit the authenticating signal upon receipt of the request signal from the safety component. The safety means receives and processes the authenticating signal from the transponder and permits firing of the weapon by the user upon receipt of an authenticating signal from the transponder authenticating an authorized user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Armatix GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Parhofer, Bernd Dietel, Herbert Meyerle
  • Publication number: 20090273440
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a handle set for a lock with a latch, the handle set having an authentication circuit and actuator in the interior handle that allow access to authenticated transponders. The present invention also provides a device and method for transmitting a rotational movement and force in an electronic lock, wherein the transmission takes place in a coupled state and not in a decoupled state and wherein the transmission of force does not damage an actuator that requires little energy to change between the coupled and decoupled states. A coupling cartridge of an electronic lock can easily be handed. The electronic lock can be retrofitted in installed mortise locks and used with cylindrical locks. The electronic lock can include a security feature that prohibits the electronic lock from changing between the coupled and decoupled states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: James S. Marschalek, Warren A. Simonsen, Ludger Voss, Herbert Meyerle, Norbert Voss, Stefan Parhofer
  • Publication number: 20080244699
    Abstract: A means for the secure personalized identifying and allowing or prohibiting of a logical and/or physical access to a target means. The means comprises a portable identification means for outputting an authorization signal comprising at least one biometric sensor, at least one output elemental, a processor having a memory and a software as well as a sending- and receiving electronic for the wireless data exchange. The identification medium is configured in such a manner that upon successfully authentifying by an authorized user, an authorization signal is output over the output element. The portable identification medium is arranged at a wristband to be fixed at a user's wrist. The means comprises at least one security means which is configured to interrupt and/or prohibit the outputting of the authorization signal in case the wristband is opened and/or disconnected and/or the removing of the means from the user's wrist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Armatix GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Parhofer, Bernd Dietel, Dipl-Ing Bernd Lind
  • Publication number: 20070241010
    Abstract: Device for the storage of a gun with a base, a safety unit for the secure storage of the gun on the base and a controller, wherein the safety unit can be inserted at least partially into the barrel and/or a cartridge chamber of the gun and comprises a first safety section, which can be brought into a safety state, in which the safety unit is secured in the gun, and into a release state, in which the safety unit can be separated from the gun, and the controller brings the first safety section into its release state when a user authorization is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: Armatix GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Giebel, Daniel Graser, Ernst Mauch, Stefan Parhofer, Vaso Pavlicic, Dirk Steuwer
  • Publication number: 20070214848
    Abstract: The present invention provides for an electronic access control device with an actuator that requires little energy to change between the coupled and decoupled states. The actuator can have levers that interact to bias the control actuator in the decoupled state. The actuator can be changed between coupled and decoupled states by magnetizing and demagnetizing an armature that interacts with the levers. The electronic lock can include a security apparatus that prohibits the electronic lock from changing between the coupled and decoupled states when an external magnetic field is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: SIMONSVOSS TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Herbert Meyerle, Norbert Voss, Ludger Voss, James Marschalek, Warren Simonsen, Stefan Parhofer
  • Publication number: 20070176437
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a handle set for a lock with a latch, the handle set having an authentication circuit and actuator in the interior handle that allow access to authenticated transponders. The present invention also provides a device and method for transmitting a rotational movement and force in an electronic lock, wherein the transmission takes place in a coupled state and not in a decoupled state and wherein the transmission of force does not damage an actuator that requires little energy to change between the coupled and decoupled states. The handle set can include a coupling cartridge that can be easily handed. The electronic lock can be retrofitted in installed mortise locks and used with cylindrical locks. The electronic lock can include a security feature that prohibits the electronic lock from changing between the coupled and decoupled states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: SIMONSVOSS TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: James Marschalek, Warren Simonsen, Ludger Voss, Herbert Meyerle, Norbert Voss, Stefan Parhofer
  • Publication number: 20070074438
    Abstract: Safety device for a hand-held weapon comprising a transponder for authenticating at least one authorized weapon user carrying or wearing the transponder or for authenticating an allowed area for using the weapon. The transponder is adapted to emit a wireless preferably cryptified authenticating signal. The Safety device further comprises a safety means for a grip of the weapon which is adapted to be necessarily activated by a hand of the user when the hand is holding the grip of the weapon and which upon activation emits a wireless request signal. The transponder is adapted to emit the authenticating signal upon receipt of the request signal from the safety means. The safety means receives and processes the authenticating signal from the transponder and permits firing of the weapon by the user upon receipt of an authenticating signal from the transponder authenticating an authorized user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Stefan Parhofer, Bernd Dietel, Herbert Meyerle
  • Publication number: 20060088192
    Abstract: A system and a method for the secure identifying of persons and for permitting or denying of a logical and/or physical access to a target means is provided. The system comprises a portable ident medium having at least one biometric sensor, at least one input element and at least one output element, a processor having a memory and a software as well as a transmitting and receiving electronic and a counter station which is located at a target means or is cooperating with said target means, having a reading and evaluating electronic for checking the authorization of the ident medium, an actor and a memory, wherein an alternating magnetic field is generated for the encoded, bidirectional date exchange or for performing a challenge response, signals are transmitted in the low frequency range and wherein the ident medium and/or the counter station are programmable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventors: Stefan Parhofer, Herbert Meyerle, Bernd Dietel