Patents by Inventor Andreas Müller

Andreas Müller 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).

  • Patent number: 12203768
    Abstract: Example embodiments described herein therefore relate to an AR guidance system to perform operations that include: detecting a client device at a location within a geo-fenced area, wherein the geo-fenced area may include within it, a destination of interest; determining a route to the destination of interest from the location of the client device within the geo-fenced area; causing display of a presentation of an environment within an AR interface at the client device; detecting a display of real-world signage within the presentation of the environment; generating a media item in response to the detecting the display of the signage within the presentation of the environment, wherein the media item is based on the route to the destination of interest; and causing display of the media item within the AR interface based on the position of the signage within the presentation of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Piers Cowburn, David Li, Isac Andreas Müller Sandvik, Qi Pan
  • Patent number: 12198376
    Abstract: Method for creating marker-based shared augmented reality (AR) session starts with initializing a shared AR session by a first device and by a second device. The first device displays on a display a marker. The second device detects the marker using a camera included in the second device and captures an image of the marker using the camera. The second device determines a transformation between the first device and the second device using the image of the marker. A common coordinate frame is then determined using the transformation, the shared AR session is generated using the common coordinate frame, and the shared AR session is caused to be displayed by the first device and by the second device. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Piers Cowburn, David Li, Isac Andreas Müller Sandvik, Qi Pan, Matan Zohar
  • Patent number: 12193655
    Abstract: A suture anchor includes a material having thermoplastic properties and is fixated in a hard tissue opening by liquefying at least part of this material and letting it penetrate into walls of the hard tissue opening. During the named fixation and preferably towards the end of it, the suture being held in a distal suture conduit is locked relative to the hard tissue by being clamped between the suture anchor and the wall of the hard tissue opening or by being clamped or braked through collapse of the suture conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SPORTWELDING GMBH
    Inventors: Jörg Mayer, Andrea Müller, Mario Lehmann, Stephanie Goebel-Mehl, Milica Berra, Andreas Wenger
  • Patent number: 12178480
    Abstract: A system for establishing an anchorage or augmentation in hard tissue with the aid of a material having thermoplastic properties, which is brought to the site of the anchorage or reinforcement in a solid state, is liquefied in situ, and, in a liquefied state, is displaced to contact the object. The system includes a housing with a proximal housing part and mounted therein, a transmitting piece possibly coupled to an energy source and a driver spring, a distal housing part releasably coupled to the proximal housing part, a permeable sleeve couplable to the distal housing part, and a thermoplastic element positionable in the permeable sleeve. The two housing parts, the transmitting piece, the driver spring and the permeable sleeve form a closed load frame in which the thermoplastic element is compressed between the transmitting piece and the permeable sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: WOODWELDING AG
    Inventors: Andrea Müller, Andrè Schwery, Philipp Bernhard, Mario Weiss
  • Patent number: 12161528
    Abstract: An approach for attaching a superstructure, such as a crown, to an abutment by an approach that includes causing thermoplastic material to become flowable due to mechanical energy input, and to flow relative to an attachment structure to secure the superstructure and crown together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: WOODWELDING AG
    Inventors: Andrea Müller, Jörg Mayer
  • Patent number: 12137930
    Abstract: A system to be used for transmitting ultrasonic vibration, the system including a sonotrode designed to vibrate in a stationary wave having at least one node position between the distal end and the proximal end of the sonotrode, and a guide shaft with a through opening. During operation the sonotrode extends through the through opening of the guide shaft and the distal end of the guide shaft is situated on a distal side of the most distal node position of the sonotrode. The sonotrode and the guide shaft are adapted to each other for radial clearance between the sonotrode and the guide shaft to be a minimum for a sonotrode portion comprising the most distal node position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: WOODWELDING AG
    Inventors: Andrea Müller, Andrè Schwery
  • Patent number: 12138939
    Abstract: A device for adjusting a printing head includes a step-by-step switching mechanism, an actuator for shifting the step-by-step switching mechanism, and a locking disk supported for rotation. A first shifting tongue is provided for incrementally rotating the locking disk in a first direction of rotation. The first shifting tongue has two elongated holes for guidance purposes, one of which has a lateral recess. It is thus possible to adjust printing heads with a high degree of accuracy while saving time and costs. The device is preferably implemented in industrial inkjet printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Andreas Müller
  • Publication number: 20240362863
    Abstract: A location-based augmented-reality system to generate and cause display of augmented-reality content that includes three-dimensional typography, based on a perspective, and location of a client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Piers George Cowburn, David Li, Isac Andreas Muller Sandvik, Qi Pan
  • Patent number: 12128509
    Abstract: A method for joining two metallic, tubular joining members to one another, the method including arranging two metallic, tubular joining members with respect to one another in an overlapping or end-face manner, and joining the joining members by material bond along a joining zone of the joining members. In the joining, a chain of joining spots extending in the circumferential direction of the joining members is produced in the joining zone, wherein successive joining spots in the chain overlap, wherein, in the joining, the joining spots are produced by means of TIG pulse welding with an arc time of up to 100 ms, preferably of up to 50 ms, wherein an arc of a welding pulse of the TIG pulse welding is extinguished after the arc time has been reached. A corresponding welding apparatus is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Viega Technology GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Franziska Neubauer, Frank Mänken, Andreas Müller, Guido Buchholz, Matthias Angerhausen, Benjamin Ebert
  • Publication number: 20240331265
    Abstract: A semantic texture map system to generate a semantic texture map based on a 3D model that comprises a plurality of vertices that include coordinate that indicate positions of the plurality of vertices, a UV map, and a semantic segmentation image that comprises a set of semantic labels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Piers George Cowburn, David Li, Isac Andreas Müller Sandvik, Qi Pan
  • Publication number: 20240319074
    Abstract: A device for measuring a measured variable of a medium includes: a measuring cell, through which the medium can flow, in the inner chamber of which a channel opens on an inlet side and on an outlet side; a first duct opening into the inner chamber; a first component in the first duct such that an end portion of the first component projects into the inner chamber; and a first molded part, which surrounds on the end portion of the first component and a hollow chamber adjacent to the first component in the inner chamber, and includes, for each channel, a recess which connects the hollow chamber to the corresponding channel and is configured as a cross-sectional converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Alejandro Vaca Torres, Hans Meyer, Andreas Müller
  • Publication number: 20240316966
    Abstract: A printing unit of an inkjet printing machine includes a printing bar with printing heads disposed in a row for printing on a printing substrate, a cleaning device for cleaning the printing heads, a device for individually adjusting the printing heads, at least one respective step-by-step switching mechanism assigned to every printing head, and a common actuator for shifting the step-by-step switching mechanisms of different printing heads. The actuator is movable into positions opposite every step-by-step switching mechanism. The cleaning device is movable and the actuator is disposed on the cleaning device for joint movement so that the actuator can be positioned opposite every step-by-step switching mechanism. It is thus possible to adjust printing heads with great precision while saving time and costs, which is preferably implemented in industrial inkjet printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventor: Andreas Müller
  • Publication number: 20240316965
    Abstract: A device for adjusting a printing head includes a step-by-step switching mechanism, an actuator for shifting the step-by-step switching mechanism, and a locking disk supported for rotation. A first shifting tongue is provided for incrementally rotating the locking disk in a first direction of rotation. The first shifting tongue has two elongated holes for guidance purposes, one of which has a lateral recess. It is thus possible to adjust printing heads with a high degree of accuracy while saving time and costs. The device is preferably implemented in industrial inkjet printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventor: Andreas Müller
  • Patent number: 12100158
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for generating a persistent world-space ground (or floor) segmentation map (or “texture”) for use in augmented or virtual reality 3D experiences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Piers Cowburn, David Li, Isac Andreas Müller Sandvik, Qi Pan, Andrew Tristan Spek
  • Publication number: 20240281054
    Abstract: An occlusion detection system to perform operations that include: capturing image data that depicts an environment at a client device, the environment including a target object at a position within the environment; causing display of a presentation of the environment at the client device, the presentation of the environment including a display of the target object at the position within the environment; detecting a first attribute of the display of the target object at the client device; performing a comparison of the first attribute of the display of the target object and a second attribute associated with the target object; and detecting an occlusion based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Piers George Cowburn, David Li, Isac Andreas Müller Sandvik, Qi Pan
  • Patent number: 12065097
    Abstract: A control device for a gas generator for controlling a volumetric flow of a fluid, which is stored under pressure, for filling an airbag of a motor vehicle, with a valve arrangement. To reduce a response time of a main valve piston, the valve arrangement has a means for controlling a fluid pressure in a control chamber, wherein the means for controlling a fluid pressure is configured to bring or hold the fluid pressure in the control chamber to/at a pressure which lies in a predefined tolerance range around an activation pressure of the main valve piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Müller, Matthias Bleeck
  • Patent number: 12064152
    Abstract: A modular implant system, such as a spinal implant system, having an implant part, for example a (spinal) plate, and at least one fastener, wherein the implant part has a fastener receiving opening. The system also includes thermoplastic material, the thermoplastic material being equipped for being liquefied by mechanical vibration, especially ultrasonic vibration energy. The fastener receiving opening and the fastener can be shaped so that the fastener can be inserted relative to the implant part at a variable angle. The fastener, the plate and the thermoplastic material are equipped for the thermoplastic material, after re-solidification, to secure the fastener against at least one of an axial (back-out) movement of the fastener, a rotation of the fastener relative to the implant part, a variation of the angle of the fastener relative to the implant part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: WOODWELDING AG
    Inventors: Jörg Mayer, Andrea Müller, Andrè Schwery
  • Patent number: 12062134
    Abstract: A location-based augmented-reality system to generate and cause display of augmented-reality content that includes three-dimensional typography, based on a perspective, and location of a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Piers George Cowburn, David Li, Isac Andreas Müller Sandvik, Qi Pan
  • Publication number: 20240261885
    Abstract: A method for joining two metallic, tubular joining members to one another, the method including arranging two metallic, tubular joining members with respect to one another in an overlapping or end-face manner, and joining the joining members by material bond along a joining zone of the joining members. In the joining, a chain of joining spots extending in the circumferential direction of the joining members is produced in the joining zone, wherein successive joining spots in the chain overlap, wherein, in the joining, the joining spots are produced by means of TIG pulse welding with an arc time of up to 100 ms, preferably of up to 50 ms, wherein an arc of a welding pulse of the TIG pulse welding is extinguished after the arc time has been reached. A corresponding welding apparatus is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Franziska Neubauer, Frank Mänken, Andreas Müller, Guido Buchholz, Matthias Angerhausen
  • Publication number: 20240247362
    Abstract: A nozzle for an evaporated material distributor is described. The nozzle includes a nozzle inlet for receiving evaporated material; a nozzle outlet; and a nozzle passage extending between the nozzle inlet and the nozzle outlet having a first passage portion, a second passage portion and a third passage portion, the second passage portion having an aperture angle which continuously increases in a direction from the nozzle inlet to the nozzle outlet and the third passage portion having an essentially constant aperture angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Julian AULBACH, Andreas MÜLLER, Harald WURSTER, Andreas LOPP, David Friedrich FREIHERR VON LINDENFELS, Takashi ANJIKI