Patents by Inventor Andreas Schmidt

Andreas Schmidt 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).

  • Single frequency network random access
    Patent number: 11064447
    Abstract: A method for controlling access to a radio channel in a single frequency network in which multiple base stations transmit the same data simultaneously to a user equipment, UE device, includes a first plurality of base stations transmitting a set of random access parameters of the single frequency network. The method also includes a second plurality of base stations receiving a random access preamble transmitted by the UE device. The second plurality of base stations the same or a subset of the first. The method also includes transmitting responses to the random access preamble from a third plurality of bases stations. The third plurality of base stations the same as or a subset of the second. The method also includes a fourth plurality of base stations receiving a scheduled transmission in response to the responses. The fourth plurality of base stations the same as or a subset of the third.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: IPCOM GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Maik Bienas, Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans
  • PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR IN-LINE INSPECTION OF PRODUCT STREAM FOR DETECTION OF FOREIGN OBJECTS
    Publication number: 20210170452
    Abstract: A process for detecting foreign objects in a food-containing product stream comprises: forwarding the product stream, illuminating the product stream, generating raw data based on electromagnetic energy reflected from the product stream using a camera, and processing the raw data to generate classified image data corresponding with food product, foreign object(s), and background. A system for detecting foreign objects in the product stream comprises a forwarding device, an illuminator, a camera, and instructions in memory that form image data and classify the data as corresponding with food product, foreign objects, and background.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Lewis Webb, Keith Johnson, Chelsea Ross
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HYDROGENATION AND HYPERPOLARIZATION OF TRACER MOLECULES FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
    Publication number: 20210165062
    Abstract: In a method (100 to 208) in which hyperpolarizable tracer molecules (20, 88 to 98) are hydrogenated and then optionally also hyperpolarized for magnetic resonance imaging, it is provided that, in a first method step (104, 202), a hydrogen solution (10, 12, 4) having a saturation factor of at least 50% be prepared and that the hydrogenation reaction (186 to 190, 206) not be triggered until a subsequent, second method step (106, 204). An apparatus (1) with which the method of the invention (100 to 208) is executable is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Inventors: Andreas SCHMIDT, Jan-Bernd Hovener, Jurgen HENNIG, Stephan BERNER
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CONTROL LIGHTING EFFECTS
    Publication number: 20210160975
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to adjust device control information. The example apparatus comprises a light drive waveform generator to obtain metadata corresponding to media and generate device control information based on the metadata, the device control information to inform a lighting device to enable consecutive light pulses; an effect engine to apply an attack parameter and a decay parameter to consecutive light pulses corresponding to the device control information, the attack parameter and the decay parameter based on the metadata to affect a shape of the consecutive light pulses; and a color timeline generator to generate color information based on the metadata, the color information to inform the lighting device to change a color state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Markus Kurt Cremer, Robert Coover, Zafar Rafii, Aneesh Vartakavi, Andreas Schmidt, Todd Hodges
  • Transmission time interval control
    Patent number: 11012962
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of determining a transmission time interval length to be used for communications between a user equipment device and a base station in response to a new service request, wherein the transmission time interval length is selected dependent on a timing advance value to be used by the user equipment device for communication with the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: IPCOM GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Andreas Schmidt, Maik Bienas
  • PRODUCTION OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS
    Publication number: 20210130943
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of materials. In particular the invention relates to nanostructured materials, and an apparatus and method for the production thereof. In accordance with the invention, nanostructured materials are produced by the subsequent steps of producing nanoparticles; transporting the nanoparticles into, and optionally through, a porous carrier by a gas flow; and depositing the nanoparticles onto the surface of said porous carrier in an essentially isotropic manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: VSPARTICLE HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Tobias Vincent PFEIFFER, Aaike Willem VAN VUGT, Andreas SCHMIDT-OTT
  • Controlling uplink traffic received by multiple base stations
    Patent number: 10999754
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of controlling a mobile communication network, the method comprising, an uplink controlling entity, in response to reception quality measurement reports sent by a plurality of reception points within the mobile communication network following a transmission of data by a user equipment device, the reception quality measurement reports being responsive to the reception of the transmission, configuring the reception points within the mobile communication network such that each of the multiple reception points is configured to exhibit a participation behaviour with respect to at least one of subsequent measurement reporting and payload reporting with regard to transmissions from the user equipment device, the participation behaviour being dependent on the reception quality measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: IPCOM GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Maik Bienas, Andreas Schmidt, Achim Luft
  • PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR IN-LINE INSPECTION OF PRODUCT STREAM FOR DETECTION OF FOREIGN OBJECTS
    Publication number: 20210121922
    Abstract: A process for detecting foreign objects in a food-containing product stream comprises: forwarding the product stream, illuminating the product stream, generating raw data based on electromagnetic energy reflected from the product stream using a camera, and processing the raw data to generate classified image data corresponding with food product, foreign object(s), and background. A system for detecting foreign objects in the product stream comprises a forwarding device, an illuminator, a camera, and instructions in memory that form image data and classify the data as corresponding with food product, foreign objects, and background.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Lewis Webb, Keith Johnson, Chelsea Ross
  • Mobile communication transmission using flexible frame structure with variable MCS and TTI length
    Patent number: 10985866
    Abstract: The invention provides method in a mobile communication system of transmitting data wherein the data is transmitted using a modulation and coding scheme, MCS, which is reconfigurable over a MCS re-configuration cycle length and wherein the data is transmitted using a reconfigurable transmit time interval, TTI, length, the MCS reconfiguration cycle length and the TTI length being different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: IPCOM GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Maik Bienas, Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans
  • HEATING ELEMENT FOR A SURFACE COMPONENT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20210112631
    Abstract: A heating element for a surface component is for forming an inner surface in a vehicle. The heating element has at least one film of an electrically conductive polymer material with a two-dimensionally formed electrical conductivity and also at least two electrical conductors, which are at least in certain portions spaced apart from one another and are fixed in a parallel electrically conducting manner to the electrically conductive polymer material in such a way that electrical power can be applied to the electrically conductive polymer material by way of the at least two conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Heiko Lantzsch, Alexander Reinisch, Andreas Schmidt
  • HEATABLE BATTERY
    Publication number: 20210111451
    Abstract: A battery includes a housing and at least one battery cell, which has at least one anode and one cathode as electrodes and a separator layer, which separates the anode and the cathode from one another. The battery also has at least one heating element, which is arranged in a manner connected to the battery cell in the housing in a thermally conductive manner. The heating element includes at least one electrically conductive polymer material and an electrical first conductor and an electrical second conductor. The electrical conductors are arranged in electrical conductive contact with the polymer material and are arranged at a distance from one another, with the result that electrical power can be applied to the electrically conductive polymer material via the at least two conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Heiko Lantzsch, Alexander Reinisch, Karsten Pietschmann, Andreas Schmidt
  • System comprised of a vehicle that moves independently within an environment and a door located in the environment
    Patent number: 10959591
    Abstract: A system consists of a vehicle in the form of an independently moving vehicle in the form of a cleaning robot, and a door with a doorframe and a door leaf. The vehicle has a detector for detecting object data within the environment. In order to be able to open a door without the cleaning robot manually acting on the door, the door has an electronic actuator for changing an open state of the door, and the vehicle has or is allocated a controller, which is set up to output a control command for activating the actuator depending on an operating state and/or position of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: David Erkek, Georg Hackert, Gerhard Isenberg, Roman Ortmann, Andreas Schmidt
  • Method and control unit for operating a transmission
    Patent number: 10962104
    Abstract: A method for operating a transmission (3) is provided, which includes a hydraulic pump drivable on a transmission-input end and at least one form-locking shift element (A, F). One of the shift-element halves is displaceable between a first end position and a second end position with a hydraulic pressure of the hydraulic pump. The current position of the shift-element half is detected with a sensor and is stored as a specified end-position value if the shift-element half is located in one of the end positions, the hydraulic pump is driven, and the shift-element half is actuated, with the hydraulic pressure, towards the current end position. When the hydraulic pressure is less than a threshold value, a deviation is determined between the current position of the shift-element half and the specified end-position value. The hydraulic pressure is increased when the deviation is greater than a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Martina Jehle, Andreas Schmidt, Angelique Schwimmer, Christian Pannek, Daniel Zerlaut
  • ACK/NACK MESSAGING IN A SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK
    Publication number: 20210084618
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of providing feedback from a plurality of base stations of a single frequency network to a user equipment device to indicate if a data transmission has been received successfully, wherein a positive acknowledgement of successful receipt is transmitted using a first feedback resource and a negative acknowledgement of unsuccessful receipt is transmitted using a second feedback resource, the first and second feedback resources being mutually orthogonal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Maik Bienas, Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans, Achim Luft
  • PREDICTIVE MEASUREMENT FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATION
    Publication number: 20210083760
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of operating a user equipment, UE device in communication with a non-terrestrial communication system comprising a plurality of transmission points, the method comprising in the UE device triggering a transmission of a measurement report dependent on a measurement by the UE device of a received signal parameter (1) of a signal received from a transmission point of the system and a comparison of the measured parameter with a threshold (2), the threshold varying according to a predetermined function dependent on an expected position of the UE device with respect to the transmission point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans, Maik Bienas
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONFIGURING A SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK
    Publication number: 20210075472
    Abstract: A telecommunication system is provided comprising a Single Frequency Network, which enables the activation and respectively deactivation of base stations, each providing a radio cell such as a so-called Small Cell. Single Frequency Networks provide the advantage that no handover procedures are required for user equipment traversing several radio cells. The subject matter of the present invention provides means for a location based adaption of the transmission parameters for operating the Small Cells in dependence of the location of the user equipment to be supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Achim Luft, Martin Hans, Maik Bienas
  • REUSE OF TRANSMISSION RESOURCES FOR DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION
    Publication number: 20210075467
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of determining a transmission power for device to device, D2D, transmissions between a first user equipment device and a second user equipment device using transmission resources being used for transmissions to a cellular network entity by a third user equipment device, the method comprising determining a measure of a path loss between the cellular network entity and the first user equipment device, and using the measure of the path loss to determine a maximum transmission power such that the D2D transmissions are received at the cellular network entity with a signal level around or below a noise level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Maik Bienas, Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans
  • Floor processing device with a battery
    Patent number: 10935981
    Abstract: A floor processing device has at least one electrical consumer, a battery for supplying power to the electrical consumer, and a control device for controlling the floor processing device. In order to avoid recharging the battery during an operating activity, the control device determines the anticipated energy required by one or more consumers to perform and fully complete a predefined operating activity, compares the anticipated energy required with an amount of energy stored in the battery, and if the stored amount of energy is less than the energy required, reduces the energy required by adjusting one or several operating parameters for the operating activity, in order to successfully execute the operating activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: David Erkek, Georg Hackert, Gerhard Isenberg, Roman Ortmann, Andreas Schmidt
  • Automatically moving floor treatment appliance
    Patent number: 10932641
    Abstract: An automatically moving floor treatment appliance has a floor treatment element for acting on a surface to be treated, and a control device for controlling the floor treatment element. To increase the area of application of the floor treatment appliance, the control device is embodied to automatically control the floor treatment element as a function of a measuring result from an air parameter sensor in such a way that a floor treatment of the surface to be treated occurs using the floor treatment element and/or to automatically control the floor treatment element as a function of environmental data stored in an external storage device and relating to an air quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: David Erkek, Georg Hackert, Gerhard Isenberg, Roman Ortmann, Andreas Schmidt
  • BEARER CONFIGURATION FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20210058983
    Abstract: The invention provides method of operating a user equipment, UE, device in a satellite-based mobile communications system, the method comprising receiving from a base station communication parameter sets, each parameter set comprising at least one parameter for use by the UE device for receiving data from or transmitting data to a satellite in the communications system, each parameter set being applied for a different stage of a communication with the system; and applying a plurality of communication parameter sets consecutively for communication with a first satellite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans, Maik Bienas