Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Schiff Hardin
  • Patent number: 8265040
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of encoding group identification in a CDMA trunking system. This method comprises: a trunking group where mobile stations locate is encoded by a preset GID encoding method to generate a GID of the trunking group. The GID is a character string consisting of a plurality of decimal digits from 0 to 9 for external processing, and is processed into a binary character string according to a GID type for internal processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Chuanxi Wu
  • Patent number: 8261563
    Abstract: An apparatus provides a high efficiency for refrigerator operation. The inclusion of a separate external evaporator and condenser that draws heat away from the common refrigerator condenser allows an increase in the intensity of the cooling process of the cooling agent, thereby diminishing electrical consumption, and decreasing the size and noise of the condenser. This is achieved by structuring the refrigerator condenser with the one tube for the cooling agent of the common refrigerator and another volume for evaporating the cooling substance of the external evaporator and condenser. Moreover, external system of natural cooling has a condenser that is located in the open air and connected to the evaporator with the help of vapor lines and condensed vapor lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Inventors: Lev Khrustalev, Alex Mindich
  • Patent number: 8265978
    Abstract: In a computerized system and method for scheduling medical procedures implemented by a number of medical apparatuses in a clinic or hospital, an exam or therapy is scheduled using a particular medical apparatus with a set time duration, and the exam or therapy is conducted and the actual time duration occupied by the medical apparatus to conduct the exam or therapy is recorded. The time durations for each medical procedure conducted by each medical apparatus are entered into and stored in a statistical data base. A scheduling computer has access to this statistical data base, and the next exam or therapy for the same apparatus is then scheduled using a time duration that is statistically updated based on the statistical compilation in the data base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kenneth Danehorn, Per Sundström
  • Patent number: 8264225
    Abstract: A bore tube for use in an imaging apparatus has a first tube and a second tube. The first tube is a complete cylinder of electrically conductive material; and the second tube is segmented into separate elements, each separately attached to the first tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens PLC
    Inventor: Marcel Jan Marie Kruip
  • Patent number: 8259335
    Abstract: In a method or printing system for sorting of print jobs, a check of specific directories as to whether a file belonging to a new print job has been generated is repeatedly implemented. A job identification number is associated with each new print job, the job identification numbers for print jobs stored in a specific group of directories being respectively generated chronologically. A plurality of print jobs are sorted corresponding to the job identification numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Océ Printing Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Herman Lankreijer, Viktor Benz
  • Patent number: 8259757
    Abstract: In a method and network for the analysis of synchronized data traffic, at least one network participant stores sent and/or received data packets in a mirror memory, and the data in the respective mirror memories are frozen and made available for evaluation via the entire data network, upon the occurrence of a trigger event in at least one of the active network participants, while maintaining the synchronized data traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Grottel, Harald Karl, Friedrich Lindner, Andreas Tröltzsch
  • Patent number: 8260170
    Abstract: In a method or system to produce a locking connection between a toner reservoir and a cover sealing the toner reservoir, first and second locking units are provided that are locked with one another after sealing the toner reservoir with the cover. The first locking unit is arranged at an inside of the cover and the second locking unit is arranged on an outside of the toner reservoir. At least one of the two locking units has a run-in slope over which the other locking unit slides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Océ Printing Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Lehmann, Reinhold Schmidl, Dietrich Pensold
  • Patent number: 8258788
    Abstract: A wireless magnetic resonance imaging scanner has one or more local coils, a microwave antenna array, and a local oscillator, and an upconverter. The local oscillator signal from the local oscillator is transmitted from the microwave antenna array to illuminate the local coils. The local coils generate magnetic resonance signals at a first frequency and the magnetic resonance signals at the first frequency are upconverted in the upconverter to microwave frequencies. The local oscillator operates at a frequency within an unlicensed band, chosen such that desired sidebands for reception of the upconverted local coil magnetic resonance signals fall outside the unlicensed band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anthony Peter Hulbert, Markus Vester
  • Patent number: 8258903
    Abstract: A superconducting, actively shielded magnet has a first and second superconducting coil modules that generate a homogeneous magnetic field in a first direction in an operating volume of the magnet and that reduces the scatter magnetic field in an environment of the magnet. A third superconducting coil module is arranged in proximity to the first and second coil modules. The third coil module is fashioned to generate a compensation gradient field given occurrence of an interference gradient field in the environment so that the effect of the interference gradient field in the operating volume is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Guenter Schnur
  • Patent number: 8260397
    Abstract: In a method to determine a kidney function parameter of kidneys of an examination person with the aid of magnetic resonance tomography, at least one magnetic resonance measurement is implemented for an examination region of the examination person that comprises a urinary bladder of the examination person, to acquire magnetic resonance data from the examination region that include at least image data. The concentration of a urophanic substance in the urinary bladder of the examination person is automatically determined based on the acquired magnetic resonance data. A volume of the urinary bladder is automatically determined based on the acquired image data. A kidney function parameter of the kidneys of the examination person is automatically determined on the basis of the determined concentration of the urophanic substance in the urinary bladder and of the specific volume of the urinary bladder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jan Ruff, Stefan Roell, Sebastian Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8258787
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance system has a patient receptacle and a base body. The patient receptacle has a subframe and a patient bed supported thereon so as to move a patient thereon through the base body. The base body has a basic field magnet system, a gradient system and an RF system that are operable to obtain an analog magnetic resonance signal from the patient. The patient receptacle has a signal conversion device composed of an A/D converter, a modulator, and a transmitter. The base body has a signal conversion device composed of a receiver and a demodulator. The A/D converter receives the magnetic resonance signal and digitizes it. The modulator modulates a carrier signal with the digitized magnetic resonance signal. The transmitter transmits the modulated carrier signal via an air gap to the receive. The receiver receives the transmitted carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hubertus Fischer, Wolfgang Renz
  • Patent number: 8253024
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for joining a number of superconductive cables to establish electrical connection therebetween, a cup-like member having a base, a sidewall, and an opening to receive electrically conductive ends of said cables is provided. The base of the cup-like member is attached to a holder device. The holder device is attached to a cryogenically cooled surface. The ends of the superconductive cables are connected together within the cup-like member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens PLC
    Inventors: Neil John Belton, Simon James Calvert, Raymond Hornsby, Marcel Jan Márie Kruip
  • Patent number: 8255239
    Abstract: In an access controller and method for controlling access to medical data, the medical data being provided as at least one first file and a second file independent of the first file with findings regarding patients that are generated by medical personnel being stored in the first file and measurement results of patients that were acquired by means of a medical-technical apparatus being stored in the second file, with at least one subset of the measurement results stored in the second file forming the basis of at least a subset of the findings stored in the first file, the access controller is configured to detect the measurement results forming the basis of a stored finding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Catrin Lüll, John Sanchez, Sandra Sodilo
  • Patent number: 8253960
    Abstract: In a method or system for operation of a data bus to which multiple bus participants each with a respective serial number specific to them are connected, a new bus participant is connected to the data bus. A request bus message is generated by the new bus participant, the message containing a preliminary participant identification number as an identifier derived from a serial number of the new bus participant. The request bus message is sent to a master processor system for assigning a final participant identification number for the new bus participant after a receipt of the request bus message with the preliminary participant identification number. The final participant identification number has fewer digits than the serial number of the new bus participant. The final participant identification number is used by the new bus participant as an identifier for further bus messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Océ Printing Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Kreppold, Arno Best, Herbert Gibisch, Robert Heimbach, Hermann Andresen
  • Patent number: 8252049
    Abstract: A method or workflow for heart valve replacement, or more precisely emplacement of a prosthetic heart valve, using minimally invasive procedures includes imaging of the patient's heart during the procedure using a multi-access articulated x-ray imaging robot that allows a radiation detector carried by the robot to be moved in arbitrary paths around a patient in order to generate multiple projection exposures of the relevant region of the patient during the procedure. The imaging system is used to generate two dimensional image data during movement of the catheter and prosthetic heart valve into place and to generate three dimensional image data of the prosthetic heart valve within the patient's heart. The two dimensional image data and the three dimensional image data are registered and superimposed for use in positioning of the prosthetic heart valve. Additional imaging may be performed once the prosthetic heart valve is in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Michael Maschke
  • Patent number: 8249688
    Abstract: In a method to affix RF coils (in particular local coils) on a patient in examinations with a magnetic resonance apparatus, a horizontal board accommodates the patient for a magnetic resonance examination to be implemented, an RF coil that has coil electronics is affixed with a fastening strap on the patient, and the fastening strap has a connection cable integrated therewith. The coil electronics are supplied with energy via the integrated connection cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jan Bollenbeck, Wolfgang Renz
  • Patent number: 8249746
    Abstract: A method for regulation of a multi-axis automated manipulator, in particular of a robot, includes flexible regulation of at least one guide axis, and rigid regulation of at least one additional axis, and determining a desired value of the at least one additional axis on the basis of a real value of the guide axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Hagenauer
  • Patent number: 8246247
    Abstract: In a rotor for a gantry of a computed tomography apparatus, as well as a manufacturing method for such a rotor, the rotor is manufactured as to contain shaped bodies (at least in segments of the rotor) produced from a composite material. By the integration of such shaped bodies with high strength and rigidity, the rotor can be stabilized in a targeted manner in the regions in which high stress values that arise upon rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniela Luecke, Hans-Juergen Mueller
  • Patent number: 8240824
    Abstract: A plug connection for an ink supply, which has an ink supply connector, allows removable connection of the ink supply to an ink-consuming component that carries a rapid action cartridge coupling that forms a fluid connection with the ink supply connector. An ink connection holder is attachable to the ink supply connector and has an opening therein receives the rapid action cartridge coupling. An unlocking element releasable holds the ink connection holder to the ink supply connector when the rapid action cartridge coupling is inserted therein. The ink connection holder has a guide for the rapid action cartridge coupling, and each of the guide and the rapid action cartridge coupling are coded, with complementary mechanical codings, so that the ink connection holder can receive only an appropriately coded rapid action cartridge coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Kieser, Wolfgang Muhl
  • Patent number: 8242925
    Abstract: In an arrangement and associated method for positioning of apparatuses (in particular of a C-arm), the position and orientation of a C-arm and of a pointer instrument are determined by a navigation system, and an alignment of the C-arm is conducted based on the orientation of the pointer apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Graumann, Lars Neuefeind