Patents Assigned to Technische Universitat
  • Patent number: 8426162
    Abstract: The process according to the invention for the microbial production of a specific product and methane comprises the following steps: a) the production in a bioreactor (2, 10) of a specific product from a specific substrate using a specific organism, the producer, wherein during the production of this product metabolites such as e.g. low-molecular alcohols, aldehydes and acids, hydrogen and CO2, which may inhibit the production of the product, are obtained; and b) the production of methane by means of a methanogen, wherein in the production of the methane at least one metabolite is decomposed and by this means removed from the bioreactor (2, 10) and its energy is made usable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignees: Agraferm Technologies AG, Technische Universitat Hamburg-Harburg, TuTech Innovation GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Friedmann, An-Ping Zeng
  • Publication number: 20130084275
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods and compositions for reducing Interleukin-4 or Interleukin-13 signaling, in particular to treat asthma and atopic dermatitis. The inventors have found that Rac/PAK mediated endocytosis of the ligand bound type I (IL-4R with the chains IL-4Ra and IL-2-Rg) and/or type II receptor (IL-13R with the chains IL-4Ra and IL-13Ra1) is needed for the IL-4 and/or IL-13 mediated activation of downstream signalling events including phosphorylation of Stat family transcrition factors. These discoveries enable new methods of screening compounds that modulate Interleukin-4 and Interleukin-13 signalling, as well as new methods for treating conditions characterized by increased Interleukin-4 and Interleukin-13 levels. These conditions include inflammatory conditions, asthma bronchiale, atopic dermatitis, allergies, atopic syndromes, allergic rhinitis, and th2-induced conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Technische Universitat Dresden
    Inventors: Christian Bôkel, Thomas Weidemann
  • Publication number: 20130084543
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed, in part, to a curable composition, a method for augmenting a structure in a patient with a resorbable biocompatible polymer, and a biodegradable, resorbable implant comprising a biocompatible copolymer. An exemplary embodiment of the curable composition comprises (a) 60 wt. % to 95 wt. % of one or more vinyl ester monomers and/or vinylcarbonate monomers, wherein said one or more vinyl ester monomers and/or vinylcarbonate monomers are respectively selected from compounds of the general formulas (I) and (II) below: wherein n, m R1 and R2 have the meaning defined herein; (b) 0.1 to 40 wt. % of one or more multifunctional thiols; and (c) 0 to 10 wt. % of a biocompatible polymerization initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicants: Technische Universitat Wien, Synthes USA, LLC
    Inventors: Synthes USA, LLC, Technische Universitat Wien
  • Patent number: 8410152
    Abstract: Described are compounds having a thiazolhydrazide scaffold, pharmaceutically acceptable salts of these compounds and pharmaceutical compositions containing at least one of these compounds together with pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, excipient and/or diluents. Said thiazolhydrazide compounds can be used for prophylaxis and/or treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignees: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e. V., Technische Universitat Darmstadt, The Provost Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin
    Inventors: Eckhard Mandelkow, Eva-Maria Mandelkow, Markus Pickhardt, Jacek Biernat, David George Lloyd, Boris Schmidt, Gregor Larbig
  • Patent number: 8403354
    Abstract: The invention relates to an emergency release system for one or more pieces of winter sports equipment, such as skis, ski poles, snowboards, bindings and/or boots for skis or snowboards. It is equipped with a connection mechanism for detachably connecting at least two elements of one or more pieces of winter sports equipment, wherein the connection mechanism is supported substantially radially in or on one of the two elements, and a drive mechanism, which can be activated from outside and is suited for cancelling the radial support of the connection mechanism, accordingly causing the two elements to separate. The invention also relates to a release method and a manufacturing process for such an emergency release system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Technische Universitat Munich
    Inventors: Veit Senner, Wolfgang Schott
  • Publication number: 20130068615
    Abstract: A membrane, especially for application in a sensor, which membrane includes a biocidal effect. The membrane comprises one or more components of the group consisting of: silver nano particles encapsulated in amphiphilic, core, shell structures, antimicrobial silanes, polymers with an antimicrobial end group, polyquads with modified end groups, and biocidally acting block copolymers. The membrane is resistant against aggressive agents, for example, corrosive or oxidizing cleaning agents, in the case of sterilizing, in the case of autoclaving, in the case of thermal loading and/or in the case of mechanical loading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicants: Technische Universität Dortmund, Endress + Hauser Conducta Gesellschaft für Mess- und Regeltechnik mbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Endl, Jörg Tiller, Thilo Trapp
  • Publication number: 20130071367
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a animal feed for calves comprising calf-specific bacteria, optionally lipids, proteins, vitamins and/or mineral materials for conditioning of the intestinal flora in calves, and thus, for prophylaxis and/or treatment of diarrhea in calves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: Technische Universitat Munchen
    Inventors: Johann Bauer, Karin Schwaiger
  • Publication number: 20130073513
    Abstract: There is provided a method of maintaining a hybrid OLTP and OLAP database, the method comprising: executing one or more OLTP transactions; creating a virtual memory snapshot; and executing one or more OLAP queries using the virtual memory snapshot. Preferably, the method further comprises replicating a virtual memory page on which a data object is stored in response to an update to the data object, whereby the updated data object is accessible for OLTP transactions, while the non-updated data object remains accessible for OLAP queries. Accordingly, the present invention provides a hybrid system that can handle both OLTP and OLAP simultaneously by using hardware-assisted replication mechanisms to maintain consistent snapshots of the transactional data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: Technische Universitat Munchen
    Inventors: Alfons Kemper, Neumann Thomas
  • Publication number: 20130065358
    Abstract: The invention concerns the production of poly(arylene-vinylenes) and related polymers whose polymerization is triggered photochemically. For that purpose, the low molecular starting materials are firstly cooled to temperatures which are so low that in fact their activation into mostly chinoid intermediate stages (the “active” monomer) occurs; the thermally induced polymerization, however, either does not occur or barely takes place at all. The polymerization is instead triggered in a separate step by means of electromagnetic radiation of a suitable wavelength—either using the absorption behavior of the low-molecular starting compounds/the monomers, or mediated by means of photoinitiators and/or sensitizers. By way of example, with this method a display is suitable to be coated with poly(arylene-vinylenes). The monomer is hereby deposited. The polymer is subsequently produced in a photo-induced manner. The remaining monomer is washed out. The process takes place at low temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Technische Universitat Darmstadt
    Inventors: Matthias Rehahn, Thorsten Schwalm, Stefan Immel, Serena Nickel
  • Patent number: 8396091
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a device comprising a laser and a waveguide stripe or netlike hexagonal stripe structure, which allows propagation of multitude of the lateral modes in the waveguide stripe or stripe structure, wherein the waveguide stripe has at least one corrugated edge section along its longitudinal axis to provide preferable amplification of the fundamental lateral mode or in-phase supermode and to obtain high brightness of the emitted radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Technische Universitat Berlin
    Inventors: Vladimir Kalosha, Kristijan Posilovic, Dieter Bimberg
  • Patent number: 8391013
    Abstract: A silicon-ceramic composite substrate includes a low-temperature ceramic having at least one pre-formed ceramic layer and a silicon substrate. The low-temperature ceramic forms a carrier layer and the silicon substrate surface has a contact area with nanostructures) that completely penetrate into the low-temperature ceramic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignees: Technische Universitat Ilmenau, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forshung E.V.
    Inventors: Michael Fischer, Heike Bartsch De Torres, Martin Hoffmann, Jens Müller, Beate Pawlowski, Stefan Barth
  • Patent number: 8361627
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for the corrosion protection of metal substrates and to the production thereof, and to a method for producing corrosion-resistant coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignees: EADS Deutschland GmbH, Technische Universität Wien
    Inventors: Theo Hack, Dominik Raps, Ralf Supplit, Ulrich Schubert
  • Publication number: 20130015572
    Abstract: An electronic unit is produced including at least one electronic component at least partially embedded in an insulating material. A film assembly is provided with at least one conductive layer and a carrier layer. The conductive layer includes openings in the form of holes for receiving bumps, which are connected to contact surfaces of the at least one electronic component. The at least one component is placed on the film assembly such that the bumps engage with the openings of the conductive layer. The at least one component is partially embedded from the side opposite of the bumps into a dielectric layer. The carrier layer of the film assembly is removed such that the surface of the bumps is exposed. A metallization layer is then deposited on the side of the remaining conductive layer having the exposed bumps and so as to produce conductor tracks that overlap with the bumps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicants: Technische Universitat Berlin, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Andreas Ostmann, Dionysios Manessis, Lars Böttcher, Stefan Karaszkiewicz
  • Publication number: 20130015426
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing of a semi-conductor element, comprising the following steps: providing a substrate, the substrate having a surface, the surface being partially coated with a coating and having at least one uncoated area, and growing a truncated pyramid of gallium nitride on the uncoated area, wherein the method comprises the following step: growing at least one gallium nitride column on the truncated pyramid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: Technische Universität Braunschweig Carolo-Wilhelmina
    Inventors: Andreas Waag, Xue Wang, Shunfeng Li
  • Publication number: 20130011082
    Abstract: A method for scaling two-dimensional structures, which is especially usable for resizing digital 2D images with a rational scaling factor, is based on efficient implementation of a diamond-shaped filter. The conventional “1”-diamond matrices of variable size are replaced by a (m×n) coefficient matrix. For any given rational scaling factor, the computational load for calculating an output pixel is reduced to filtering (m×n) input pixels with a corresponding (m×n) filter matrix. The coefficients of this filter matrix depend from the phase of the output pixel to be calculated and the factor of interpolation, but are always integer numbers. The coefficients may be stored in lookup tables (LUT), which leads to a very efficient implementation of the inventive method. In one embodiment, a (3×3) coefficient matrix has been found to be advantageous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: Brandenburgische Technische Universitat Cottbus
    Inventors: Stefan Schiemenz, Christian Hentschel
  • Patent number: 8349712
    Abstract: The invention inter alia relates to a method of fabricating a layer assembly comprising the steps of: arranging a first layer on top of a carrier; arranging a second layer on top of the first layer; locally modifying the material of the buried first layer and providing at least one modified section in the first layer, wherein the modified material changes or induces mechanical strain in a portion of the second layer which is arranged above the at least one modified section; after locally modifying the material of the buried first layer, depositing a third material on top of the second layer, at least one characteristic of the third material being sensitive to the local mechanical strain in the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Technische Universitat Berlin
    Inventors: André Strittmatter, Andrei Schliwa, Tim David Germann, Udo W. Pohl, Vladimir Gaysler, Jan-Hindrik Schulze
  • Patent number: 8344109
    Abstract: The subject of the present invention is an anti-ricin antibody and the use thereof for the treatment of an individual suffering from ricin poisoning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignees: Etat Francais Represente par le Delegue General pour l'Armement, Technische Universitat Braunschweig-Institut fur Biochemie und Biotechnologie
    Inventors: Philippe Thullier, Michael Hust, Stefan Dubel
  • Patent number: 8331142
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a memory comprising a strained double-heterostructure having an inner semiconductor layer which is sandwiched between two outer semiconductor layers, wherein the lattice constant of the inner semiconductor layer differs from the lattice constants of the outer semiconductor layers, the resulting lattice strain in the double-heterostructure inducing the formation of at least one quantum dot inside the inner semiconductor layer, said at least one quantum dot being capable of storing charge carriers therein, and wherein, due to the lattice strain, the at least one quantum dot has an emission barrier of 1.15 eV or higher, and provides an energy state density of at least three energy states per 1000 nm3, all said at least three energy states being located in an energy band of 50 meV or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Technische Universitat Berlin
    Inventors: Dieter Bimberg, Martin Geller, Andreas Marent, Tobias Nowozin
  • Patent number: 8318918
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid molecule, comprising a nucleotide sequence, which encodes a polypeptide with chalcone 3-hydroxylase activity, wherein the nucleotide sequence comprises SEQ ID NO. 1 or has at least a 60% identity with SEQ ID NO. 1 or is able to hybridize with a molecule comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1, wherein the nucleotide sequence encodes a polypeptide, which comprises the motif FASRPLSX1X2G(X3)m(GSAGGD)n (SEQ ID NO. 3), wherein X1 is threonine or serine, X2 is alanine or glycine, X3 is any amino acid, m is an integer between 50 and 200, and n is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Technische Universitat Wien
    Inventors: Heidrun Halbwirth, Karin Schlangen, Karl Stich
  • Patent number: 8302314
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing internally and/or externally profiled rings from pipe material or solid material, machine-cutting processes and forming processes are combined with one another sequentially, parallel, or sequentially and parallel, wherein one of the forming processes is roll forming. During roll forming a counterforce is generated relative to a flow direction of the starting material so that a material flow in at least one of an axial direction and a radial direction of the starting material is controlled such that flowing material is integrated into a profile to be shaped on the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Technische Universität Dresden
    Inventors: Thomas Ficker, André Hardtmann, Mario Houska