Patents Assigned to TNO
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Patent number: 9211567Abstract: The invention provides a method for applying a material onto a substrate using a droplet printing technique wherein a gas stream is released into the direction of a substrate, which gas stream comprises a carrier gas and droplets of a suspension of the material or droplets of a solution of a precursor of the material or droplets of a precursor of the material as such, whereby the droplets in the gas stream are first maintained in a steady flow and subsequently in a converging flow before the droplets are contacted with the substrate. The invention further provides an apparatus for carrying out said method.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2008Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: René Jos Houben, Gerrit Oosterhuis
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Patent number: 9213095Abstract: A system for determining a propagation direction of a received electromagnetic wave includes a linear phased array of receiving antenna elements and a processing unit for processing signals received by the receiving antenna elements. The processor is arranged for generating, from the received signals, receiving data corresponding to a set of respective angular synthetic receiving aperture beams.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2009Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventor: Albert Gezinus Huizing
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Publication number: 20150356281Abstract: Methods and systems for secure watermarking of at least part of a content item X are described, wherein the method comprises: providing a distorted content item X+y, comprising one or more distorted data units wherein the payload of a distorted data unit comprises a distortion signal y which distorts the rendering of the payload in said distorted data unit; providing a compensating watermark payload w-y comprising one or more compensating watermark signals S?y; using homomorphic encryption for en-crypting at least part of said distorted content item X?y and said compensating watermark payload into an encrypted distorted content item E(X+y) and an encrypted compensating watermark payload E(w-y) on the basis of one or more encryption keys; and, combining said encrypted distorted content item with said encrypted compensating watermark payload on the basis of one or more homomorphic computations, wherein said one or more computations modify a distortion signal y in the payload of a distorted data unit into a non-Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2013Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicants: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast- Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Mattijs Oskar Van Deventer, Peter Veugen
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Publication number: 20150359025Abstract: The invention relates to a telecommunications network for wirelessly establishing a connection with a terminal located at a location in said network by a server. The terminal is identified by a terminal identifier in the telecommunications network. The telecommunications network contains a first network node and a second network node. The first network node is configured for receiving a data unit for the terminal from the server, that is preferably located outside the telecommunications network. The data unit comprises the terminal identifier. The first network node is being configured for receiving a location identifier indicative of the location of the terminal from the server and for deriving an address of the second network node using the location identifier. The derived address of the second network node is then used for transmitting a first connection request for establishing a connection with the derived second network node.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2015Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicants: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Antonius Hendrikus Johannes Norp, Annemieke Josefa Rene Kips, Michael Robert Schenk
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Patent number: 9205595Abstract: The invention relates to a method for treating an elongated object using a plasma process. The method comprises the steps of providing an elongated object in a planar electrode structure, and applying potential differences between electrodes of an electrode structure to generate the plasma process. Further, the method comprises at least partially surrounding the elongated object by a unitary section of the guiding structure, the electrode structure being associated with the unitary section.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2008Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Marcel Simor, Ales Fiala
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Patent number: 9205599Abstract: A system for producing a tangible object. The system has a space which can be filled with a fluid. A reference platform at least partially defines at least one side of the space. The system further has a phase-transformer which can form a layer of the object by selectively transforming the fluid into a solid in a predetermined area of the space. An actuator can separate the layer from the reference platform by moving the layer relative to the reference platform or vice versa. The system has a controller connected with an actuator control output to the actuator and/or with a transformer control output to the phase transformer. The controller can control the production of the object based on a determined value of the force exerted on the reference platform or the solid or of a parameter related to the force.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2007Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventors: Herman Hendrikus Maalderink, Jasper Joost Michels, Ronaldus Jacobus Johannes Boot
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Patent number: 9210590Abstract: The invention relates to a method for activating at least one inactive cell in a wireless telecommunications infrastructure. The telecommunications infrastructure comprises an active cell containing a plurality of terminals. A presence signal is transmitted in the at least one inactive cell. The plurality of terminals in the active cell detect the presence signal(s) of the one or more inactive cells to gather information from the inactive cell. The information is reported to and received at the telecommunications infrastructure. The information received from the plurality of terminals is processed in a processing system of the telecommunications infrastructure to provide a processing result. The inactive cell is activated when the processing result fulfils at least one activation condition such that at least one of the plurality of terminals is within a coverage area of the activated cell.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignees: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Ljupco Jorguseski, Remco Litjens, Haibin Zhang
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Publication number: 20150341361Abstract: A system is described to control a mobile telecommunication device within a telecommunications network, when the mobile device is suspected of being, or has been found to be, infected by malicious software or viruses causing it to behave maliciously or aggressively within the network. The telecommunications network is arranged to identify the telecommunication device and limit the communication between the mobile telecommunication device and the telecommunications network. This may mean limiting the bandwidth of the bearer between the mobile telecommunications device and the telecommunications network or may mean limiting the communications between the mobile telecommunications device and a specific location. In further embodiments the telecommunications network quarantines the identified device by either transferring an attachment of the mobile telecommunications device to a second network, or, maintaining a list of devices and adding the identified mobile telecommunications device to the list.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2013Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicants: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurweten schappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Frank Fransen, Sander De Kievit
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Publication number: 20150340047Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of evaluating intelligibility of a degraded speech signal received from an audio transmission system conveying a reference speech signal. The method comprises sampling said signals into reference and degraded signal frames, and forming frame pairs by associating reference and degraded signal frames with each other. For each frame pair a difference function representing disturbance is provided, which is then compensated for specific disturbance types for providing a disturbance density function. Based on the density function of a plurality of frame pairs, an overall quality parameter is determined. The method provides for compensating the overall quality parameter for the effect that the assessment of intelligibility of CVC words is dominated by the intelligibility of consonants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2013Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST- NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventor: John Gerard BEERENDS
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Patent number: 9196868Abstract: An organic light-emitting device is provided comprising a stack of layers including —an electro-optical layer structure (10) having a light emissive surface (12), —a light extraction structure (20) adjacent the light emissive surface, the light extraction structure has a nanostructured layer (22); and a backfill layer (24) comprising a material having a second index of refraction different from the first index of refraction, wherein the backfill layer (24) forms a planarizing layer over the nanostructured layer (22). The light emitting device includes a barrier film that comprises a first and a second inorganic layer (22, 26) and an organic layer (24) arranged between said inorganic layers. The one (22) of the inorganic layers of the barrier film closest to the electro-optical layer structure forms the nanostructured layer and the organic layer (24) between the inorganic layers forms the backfill layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Edward Willem Albert Young, Chia-Chen Fan
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Publication number: 20150323418Abstract: The invention relates to a method of interrogating a multiple number of optic sensors. The method comprises the steps of providing a multiple number of optic sensors included in a single optic path and having spectrally separated resonance spectra, and providing a single interrogation unit coupled to the single optic paths. Further, the method comprises the steps of selecting a limited number of interrogation wavelengths for each optic sensor and programming a programmable laser source, included in the single interrogation unit, in a sequence of the selected interrogation wavelengths. In addition, the method comprises the steps of interrogating the optic sensors by operating the laser source in the sequence of the selected interrogation wavelengths, and performing measurements on the programmable laser source output for correcting the interrogating step.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2013Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast- natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Lun-Kai Cheng, Peter Martijn Toet
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Publication number: 20150317951Abstract: Digital driving circuitry for driving an active matrix display comprising a plurality of pixels logically organized in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, each pixel comprising a light emitting element, comprises a current driver for each of the plurality of columns for driving a predetermined current through the corresponding column, the predetermined current being proportional to the number of pixels that are ON in that column. The digital driving circuitry further comprises digital select line driving circuitry for sequentially selecting the plurality of rows, and digital data line driving circuitry for writing digital image codes to the pixels in a selected row, synchronized with the digital select line driving circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2013Publication date: November 5, 2015Applicants: IMEC VZW, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast- Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventor: Jan Genoe
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Publication number: 20150319610Abstract: A system is described for controlling a mobile telecommunications device, in which the mobile device includes an enforcer which can be controlled by the telecommunications network. The telecommunications network signals the enforcer in order to gain control of the mobile device. The enforcer may be a hardware component within the mobile telecommunications device and in particular is coupled between the baseband and applications processors. The system allows a telecommunications network to gain control of a device in the event that the device is corrupted by rogue or malicious software and behaves in a way deleterious to the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2013Publication date: November 5, 2015Applicants: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast- Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventor: Tim Hartog
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Patent number: 9178822Abstract: The invention relates to a method for congestion control in a telecommunications network. The telecommunications network supports one or more active data sessions between a server and at least a first and second communication terminal by providing at least a first and a second bearer for these terminals. The at least first and second communication terminal are assigned to a group for which a common group identifier is or has been stored. Further, a first individual congestion parameter for the first bearer and a second individual congestion parameter for the second bearer of the first and second communication terminal are or have been stored. A group load indicator is defined for the group of terminals corresponding to the common group identifier. The group load indicator is monitored and compared with a group load condition for the group of the at least first and second communication terminals corresponding to the common group identifier.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2010Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignees: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor Togepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek, TNOInventors: Antonius Norp, Annemieke Kips, Johannes Maria van Loon
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Patent number: 9174425Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for laminating a first and a second sheet with a plane carrier (10) and a drum shaped carrier (20) for carrying a respective sheet. The apparatus has a first main operational mode wherein the drum shaped carrier (20) is at distance from a first carrier surface (12) of the plane carrier (10) in said third direction (Z), and a second main operational mode wherein the drum shaped carrier (20) is close to first carrier surface to bring the first and the second sheet (1, 2) in contact with each other. In the first main operational mode the drum shaped carrier (20) is virtually rolled over the first carrier surface (12) and the sheets are mutually aligned. In the second operational mode the sheets are laminated.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventors: Jeroen Van Den Brand, Andreas Heinrich Dietzel, Sander Christiaan Broers, Milan Saalmink
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Patent number: 9176153Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a peptide which binds to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or lipoteichoic acid (LTA), for manufacturing a pharmaceutical composition for treating sepsis or septic shock, wherein the peptide comprises the amino acid sequence of apolipoprotein CI (apoCI) or a part thereof that comprises at least the amino acids of the C-terminal helix of apoCI. The use of human apoCI is preferred. The peptide can be administered clinically to patients who have sepsis or threaten to develop sepsis. Measurement of the apoCI content in blood can be utilized for determining the severity and prognosis of the course of the septic condition or for monitoring an anti-sepsis treatment.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2003Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPASTNATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventors: Patrick Cornelis Nicolaas Rensen, Aloysius Maria Havekes
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Patent number: 9175149Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous dispersion based on a polymer and a crosslinker, a method for applying a coating to a substrate, and a substrate provided with such a coating. One aspect of the present invention is to provide a formulation for an aqueous dispersion that can be used to obtain a coating that will not turn yellow and is resistant to hydrolysis.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2007Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TnoInventors: Cornelis Eme Koning, Rudolfus Antonius Theodorus Maria Van Benthem, Willem Jan Soer, Weihua Ming
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Patent number: 9170366Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor system comprising a waveguide, which waveguide comprises a grating in at least a part of the waveguide, which waveguide further comprises a coating, the coating comprising a polymer, which polymer comprises a chain, in which chain are present an aromatic group and a chemical group selected from the group of sulfonyl groups, carbonyl groups, carbonate groups, fluorocarbon groups, siloxane groups, pyridine groups and amide groups.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Arjen Boersma, Theodorus Henricus Cornelus Panken, Lun Kai Cheng
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Publication number: 20150304345Abstract: A system is provided for detecting behaviour of a mobile telecommunications device in a telecommunications network. Malware in mobile devices can cause malicious behaviour in the device, for example sequential attaching and detaching of an infected device relative to a telecommunications network. A telecommunications network is provided which is configured to identify at least one mobile telecommunications device and to receive signals from the mobile telecommunications device and process the signals into data streams. The data streams include data of a first type arranged to cause an event of a first type within the telecommunications network. The network is arranged to monitor an occurrence in the data streams of the data of the first type and to register when the occurrence exceeds a level indicating acceptable behaviour of the mobile telecommunications device in the telecommunications network. A device for detection of mobile device behaviour is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2013Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicants: KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V., NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST- NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventor: Frank Muller
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Publication number: 20150304430Abstract: Method and systems for providing user data from a communication module (using a first telecommunications network) to data processing center (of a second telecommunications network) is disclosed. The user data is provided in a data field of a session setup message. The user data in the data field of the session setup message is adapted or guaranteed (e.g., required by a telecommunications standard) to be forwarded from the first telecommunications network to the second telecommunication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2013Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicants: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast- Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Bryan Jerrel Busropan, Nicolaas Keesmaat