Patents by Inventor Alfred Wegener

Alfred Wegener 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).

  • Publication number: 20130210112
    Abstract: A bacterial mixture usable in an inoculum usable in a bioremediateion method for accelerated biological degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in a sea ice-covered polar region includes a plurality of isolated cold-adapted autochthonous bacterial strains. Each of the bacterial strains has petroleum hydrocarbons degrading activity at an ambient temperature of ?3° C. and each has a different temperature tolerance range, a different salinity tolerance range, a different petroleum hydrocarbons degradation spectrum, and a different capacity to emulsify oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: STIFTUNG ALFRED-WEGENER-INSTITUT FUER POLAR-UND MEERESFORSCHUNG
    Inventor: STIFTUNG ALFRED-WEGENER-INSTITUT FUER POLAR- UND MEERESFORSCHUNG
  • Publication number: 20110118712
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ophthalmologic laser system (1) comprising an ultra-short pulse laser (2) for outputting ultra-short laser pulses (3), focusing optics (4) for producing at least one focal point (5) on and/or in the eye lens (6) of the patient's eye (7), a deflection mechanism (9) for varying the position of the focal point (5) on and/or in the eye lens (6), and comprising a control mechanism (11) for controlling the deflection mechanism (9). The laser system (1) is characterized in that the laser pulses output by the ultra-short pulse laser (2) and the size of the focal point (5) fixed by the focusing optics (4) are configured such that a fluence can be applied below or on the disruption threshold of the material of the eye lens (6) at the focal point (5), wherein said fluence is at the same time sufficiently high to cause changes in at least one material property of the material of the eye lens (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Holger Lubatschowski, Uwe Oberheide, Alfred Wegener, Silvia Schumacher