Patents by Inventor Walter Schäfer
Walter Schäfer 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: 11968200Abstract: An enterprise platform may retrieve, from a collaboration data store, information about a selected enterprise team. The enterprise platform may then transmit, from a set of integration tools to a workflow tool of a remote cloud-based environment, a data payload including a notification request associated with a channel. The enterprise platform may also transmit, from a runtime environment to a business communication platform of the cloud-based environment, a request to post a notification to the channel and arrange for a member of the selected enterprise team to receive an adaptive information card, pushed by the business communication platform via the channel, containing information associated with at least one of the integration tools. The member who receives the adaptive information card may also, via selection of a graphical icon on the card, respond to the business communication platform via bi-directional communication.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: David Wayne Crowley, David M. Senak, Eva Angela Magee, Jeremy Walter, Jocelyn Amy DeMaio, John Gerard Buccetti, Julie Ann Reed, Rajesh Kamlakar Nerurkar, Richard W. Schaefer, Sona O. Sliker, Wayne W. Church
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Patent number: 11951190Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the field of radiopharmaceuticals and their use in nuclear medicine as tracers, imaging agents and for the treatment of various disease states of prostate cancer. Thus, the present invention concerns compounds that are represented by the general Formulae (Ia) or (Ib).Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NOVARTIS AGInventors: Matthias Eder, Klaus Kopka, Martin Schäfer, Ulrike Bauder-Wüst, Michael Eisenhut, Walter Mier, Martina Benesova
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Patent number: 11931430Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the field of radiopharmaceuticals and their use in nuclear medicine as tracers, imaging agents and for the treatment of various disease states of prostate cancer. Thus, the present invention concerns compounds that are represented by the general Formulae (Ia) or (Ib).Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NOVARTIS AGInventors: Matthias Eder, Klaus Kopka, Martin Schäfer, Ulrike Bauder-Wüst, Michael Eisenhut, Walter Mier, Martina Benesova
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Patent number: 9734340Abstract: Methods include receiving a request for verified data from a requesting entity. Methods also include requesting, from a user, consent to obtain user data corresponding to the user. Methods further include receiving the consent and obtaining preliminary data corresponding to the user. Methods also include transmitting a message to a user data provider in response to receiving the consent, in which the message comprises the preliminary data and a request for the user data. Methods also include receiving response data, wherein the response data corresponds to the user data. Methods further include analyzing the response data and determining the verified data in response to analyzing the response data. Methods also include providing the verified data to the requesting entity.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2013Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: CA, Inc.Inventors: Debra Jean Danielson, Timothy Gorden Brown, Jeffrey C. Broberg, Walter Schaefer
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Publication number: 20170045434Abstract: A method is described for determining the size of a transparent particle (2), wherein the particle (2) is illuminated with light from a light source (6), wherein using a radiation detector (7) a time-resolved intensity curve of light from the light source (6) scattered on the particle (2) is measured at a preselectable scattering angle ?s, wherein characteristic scattered light peaks are determined in the intensity curve, and wherein the size of the particle (2) is determined on the basis of the time difference between two scattered light peaks, characterized in that, with the help of two radiation detectors (7) or light sources (6), a first and a second time-resolved intensity curve of scattered light, scattered on the particle (2) in the forward direction, are measured; a transmission peak (12) and a reflection peak (11) are determined from the first intensity curve and from the second intensity curve; a first time difference between the transmission peaks (12) is determined, and a second time difference beType: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Cameron TROPEA, Walter SCHAEFER
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Publication number: 20170010197Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the size d of a transparent particle, according to which method the particle is illuminated with light from a light source, a radiation detector measures a time-resolved intensity profile of light of the light source scattered by the particle, a reflection peak (10) and a refraction peak are determined in the intensity profile and the size d of the particle is determined based on a time difference between the reflection peak (10) and the refraction peak.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Cameron TROPEA, Walter SCHAEFER
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Publication number: 20140268142Abstract: A method is described for determining the size of a transparent particle (2), wherein the particle (2) is illuminated with light from a light source (6), wherein using a radiation detector (7) a time-resolved intensity curve of light from the light source (6) scattered on the particle (2) is measured at a preselectable scattering angle ?s, wherein characteristic scattered light peaks are determined in the intensity curve, and wherein the size of the particle (2) is determined on the basis of the time difference between two scattered light peaks, characterized in that, with the help of two radiation detectors (7) or light sources (6), a first and a second time-resolved intensity curve of scattered light, scattered on the particle (2) in the forward direction, are measured; a transmission peak (12) and a reflection peak (11) are determined from the first intensity curve and from the second intensity curve; a first time difference between the transmission peaks (12) is determined, and a second time difference beType: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Cameron TROPEA, Walter SCHAEFER
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Publication number: 20140268143Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the size d of a transparent particle, according to which method the particle is illuminated with light from a light source, a radiation detector measures a time-resolved intensity profile of light of the light source scattered by the particle, a reflection peak (10) and a refraction peak are determined in the intensity profile and the size d of the particle is determined based on a time difference between the reflection peak (10) and the refraction peak.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2012Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DARMSTADTInventors: Cameron Tropea, Walter Schaefer
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Patent number: 8530804Abstract: A method and a device for the continuous production of glass and glass ceramic products from a glass melt is provided, which simplifies the changing between two kinds of glass. The device includes a melting crucible and an induction coil, which preferably extends around the melting crucible in order to heat a glass melt by means of an induction field generated by the induction coil. The wall elements, which form the side wall of the crucible, have cooling channels, through which a cooling fluid can be conducted, so that the glass melt solidifies on the side wall and forms a skull layer. The interior side of the wall elements is formed at least in part by an aluminum nitride-containing ceramic.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Uwe Kolberg, Sybill Nuettgens, Thomas Kirsch, Andreas Gross, Ernst-Walter Schaefer
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Publication number: 20110011849Abstract: A method and a device for the continuous production of glass and glass ceramic products from a glass melt is provided, which simplifies the changing between two kinds of glass. The device includes a melting crucible and an induction coil, which preferably extends around the melting crucible in order to heat a glass melt by means of an induction field generated by the induction coil. The wall elements, which form the side wall of the crucible, have cooling channels, through which a cooling fluid can be conducted, so that the glass melt solidifies on the side wall and forms a skull layer. The interior side of the wall elements is formed at least in part by an aluminum nitride-containing ceramic.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Inventors: Uwe Kolberg, Sybill Neuttgens, Thomas Kirsch, Andreas Gross, Ernst-Walter Schaefer
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Patent number: 7530238Abstract: A heating apparatus for the conductive heating of melts, in particular for the rapid melting-down, refining and/or conditioning of melts, is provided. The heating apparatus includes at least one electrode, as well as a first cooling system with a cooling power, which can be set and/or controlled variably.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2003Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Rainer Eichholz, Guido Raeke, Volker Ohmstede, Gunter Weidmann, Frank-Thomas Lentes, Thomas Stelle, Ernst-Walter Schaefer, Hildegard Roemer, Joerg Schollmayer, Holger Hunnius, Frank-Jurgen Druschke
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Patent number: 7444837Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the rapid melting of glasses in a skull crucible is provided. The method and apparatus introduce high-frequency energy into the contents of the crucible by means of a coil arrangement surrounding the skull crucible, in order to heat the melt, and the batch is laid and the molten glass discharged in the upper region of the crucible, and undissolved constituents of the batch are retained by means of a cooled bridge which is immersed in the melt. The glass is taken off above the coil arrangement and is fed for further processing without flowing through the coil region.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Hildegard Römer, Michael Leister, Uwe Kolberg, Karl Mennemann, Guido Räke, Ernest Walter Schäfer, Sybill Nüttgens, Volker Ohmstede
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Patent number: 7414740Abstract: The method measures the thickness of a hot glass body without direct contact with the glass body and is based on chromatic aberration. This method includes focusing a light beam from a light source on the hot glass body using a focusing device immediately after formation; conducting reflected light from the glass body into a spectrometer to obtain a reflected light spectrum; finding two wavelengths of the reflected light from the front side and the rear side of the glass body respectively at which reflected light intensities are maximum; determining the thickness of the glass body from the difference between the two wavelengths; maintaining the focusing device at a temperature below 120° C. during the measuring of the thickness and substantially preventing heat radiation from reaching the focusing device using at least one heat-blocking filter.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2005Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Thorsten Wilke, Andre Witzmann, Rupert Fehr, Johann Faderl, Otmar Schmittel, Ernst-Walter Schaefer, Christopher Fritsch
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Patent number: 7296441Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for low-contamination melting of high-purity, aggressive and/or high-melting glass or glass-ceramic. According to the invention, for this purpose a melt is heated in a crucible or melting skull crucible by means of high-frequency radiation and is mixed or homogenized in the melting crucible. It is preferable for a gas nozzle, from which gas bubbles, e.g. oxygen bubbles (known as O2 bubbling), escape into the melt, to be provided at the base of the crucible. This alone makes it possible to achieve surprising multiple benefits in the melting skull crucible. Firstly, unmelted batch which drops into the melt in solid form, for example from above, is melted down more quickly as a result of more intensive mixing with the liquid fraction of the melt, secondly the temperature distribution in the melt is made more even, thirdly a uniform distribution or mixing of different glass constituents is achieved, and fourthly the redox state of the glass can be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2002Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Michael Leister, Ernst-Walter Schäfer, Leopold Eichberg, Volker Ohmstede
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Publication number: 20060137402Abstract: A heating apparatus for the conductive heating of melts, in particular for the rapid melting-down, refining and/or conditioning of melts, is provided. The heating apparatus includes at least one electrode, as well as a first cooling system with a cooling power, which can be set and/or controlled variably.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2003Publication date: June 29, 2006Inventors: Rainer Eichholz, Guido Raeke, Volker Ohmstede, Gunter Weidmann, Frank-Thomas Lentes, Thomas Stelle, Ernst-Walter Schaefer, Hildegard Roemer, Joerg Schollmayer, Holger Hunnius, Frank-Juergen Druschke
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Patent number: 7008900Abstract: The invention provides new double metal cyanide (DMC) catalysts for preparing polyetherpolyols by the polyaddition of alkylene oxides to starter compounds which contain active hydrogen atoms, wherein the catalyst comprises a) double metal cyanide compounds, b) bile acids or their salts, esters or amides and c) organic complex ligands. The catalysts according to the invention show greatly increased activity during preparation of a polyetherpolyol.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2000Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jörg Hofmann, Pieter Ooms, Pramod Gupta, Walter Schäfer, John Lohrenz
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Publication number: 20060012804Abstract: The method measures the thickness of a hot glass body without direct contact with the glass body and is based on chromatic aberration. This method includes focusing a light beam from a light source on the hot glass body using a focusing device immediately after formation; conducting reflected light from the glass body into a spectrometer to obtain a reflected light spectrum; finding two wavelengths of the reflected light from the front side and the rear side of the glass body respectively at which reflected light intensities are maximum; determining the thickness of the glass body from the difference between the two wavelengths; maintaining the focusing device at a temperature below 120° C. during the measuring of the thickness and substantially preventing heat radiation from reaching the focusing device using at least one heat-blocking filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2005Publication date: January 19, 2006Inventors: Thorsten Wilke, Andre Witzmann, Rupert Fehr, Johann Faderl, Otmar Schmittel, Ernst-Walter Schaefer, Christopher Fritsch
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Patent number: 6953765Abstract: The invention is directed to a double-metal cyanide catalyst for the preparation of a polyether polyol by the polyaddition of an alkylene oxideon to a starter compound containing active hydrogen atoms, wherein the DMC catalyst comprises a) at least one double-metal cyanide compound; b) at least one organic complexing ligand; and c) two different complexing components.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2002Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Pieter Ooms, Jörg Hofmann, Walter Schäfer
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Patent number: 6909966Abstract: A navigational device in which a position is storable by actuating a control element and this position may be input as a driving destination by re-actuating the control element. This simplifies the input of an often frequented driving destination such as a place of residence.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2002Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Walter Schaefer, Peter Herrmann
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Patent number: 6878661Abstract: The invention relates to novel double metal cyanide (DMC) catalysts for the preparation of polyether polyols by polyaddition of alkylene oxides to starter compounds containing active hydrogen atoms, wherein the catalyst contains a) double metal cyanide compounds, b) organic complex ligands other than c), and c) complex ligands formed by introduction of a glycidyl ether into the catalyst. The catalysts according to the invention have greatly increased activity in the preparation of polyether polyols.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1999Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Bsyer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Pieter Ooms, Jörg Hofmann, Pramod Gupta, Walter Schäfer