Patents by Inventor Andreas Schneider
Andreas Schneider 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).
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Patent number: 11600312Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for activate commands for memory preparation are described. A memory device may receive an activate command for a row of a memory bank in the memory device. The activate command may include an indicator that indicates a type of an access operation associated with the activate command. The memory device may perform, based on the type of the access operation, an operation to prepare the memory device for the access operation. The memory device may then receive an access command for the access operation after performing the operation to prepare the memory device for the access operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Andreas Schneider, Casto Salobrena Garcia, Martin Brox, Nobuyuki Umeda, Peter Mayer, Rethin Raj
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Publication number: 20230048217Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for activate commands for memory preparation are described. A memory device may receive an activate command for a row of a memory bank in the memory device. The activate command may include an indicator that indicates a type of an access operation associated with the activate command. The memory device may perform, based on the type of the access operation, an operation to prepare the memory device for the access operation. The memory device may then receive an access command for the access operation after performing the operation to prepare the memory device for the access operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Andreas Schneider, Casto Salobrena Garcia, Martin Brox, Nobuyuki Umeda, Peter Mayer, Rethin Raj
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Publication number: 20220368573Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for communicating multi-level signals are described. A first device may be configured to communicate signals with a second device according to a modulation scheme. The first device may transmit a first signal to the second device at a first voltage level of the modulation scheme corresponding to a first multi-bit value. The first device may select a second voltage level of the modulation scheme based on a difference between the first voltage level and a third voltage level of the PAM scheme, and may transmit a second signal to the second device at the second voltage level to indicate a second multi-bit value corresponding to the third voltage level. The second device may decode the second signal to determine the second multi-bit value based on receiving the first signal at the first voltage level and the second signal at the second voltage level.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Peter Mayer, Nobuyuki Umeda, Casto Salobrena Garcia, Rethin Raj, Andreas Schneider
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Publication number: 20220350522Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for multi-driver signaling are described. An apparatus may include a first voltage source configured to supply a positive voltage and a second voltage source configured to supply a negative voltage. The apparatus may also include a first driver configured to couple a transmission line of a bus with the first voltage source and a second driver configured to couple the transmission line of the bus with the second voltage source. The first driver may be configured to transfer current to the transmission line based on a configurable resistance of the first driver. And the second driver configured to transfer current from the transmission line of the bus based on a configurable resistance of the second driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Peter Mayer, Rethin Raj, Nobuyuki Umeda, Andreas Schneider, Casto Salobrena Garcia
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Patent number: 11394589Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for communicating multi-level signals are described. A first device may be configured to communicate signals with a second device according to a modulation scheme. The first device may transmit a first signal to the second device at a first voltage level of the modulation scheme corresponding to a first multi-bit value. The first device may select a second voltage level of the modulation scheme based on a difference between the first voltage level and a third voltage level of the PAM scheme, and may transmit a second signal to the second device at the second voltage level to indicate a second multi-bit value corresponding to the third voltage level. The second device may decode the second signal to determine the second multi-bit value based on receiving the first signal at the first voltage level and the second signal at the second voltage level.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Peter Mayer, Nobuyuki Umeda, Casto Salobrena Garcia, Rethin Raj, Andreas Schneider
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Publication number: 20220186869Abstract: The invention relates to a fitting for permanently connecting to at least one tube, the fitting including: a main body; a retaining element which has locking elements for locking to a corresponding locking element of the tube to be connected; a sealing element; and a blocking ring, the blocking ring allowing movement of the retaining element in the radial direction in a first axial position and preventing movement of the retaining element outwards in the radial direction in a second axial position. Said fitting solves the technical problem of providing a fitting suitable for permanently connecting tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Fabian Düperthal, Stefan Rocksloh, Andreas Schneider, Detlev Schmitt, Sudi Sinoplu, Andreas Hütte
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Patent number: 11325178Abstract: A pressing tool for pressing fittings to produce pipe connections, with two opposing pressing jaws, each having a pressing section and a lever section, and having a retaining element for swivel connecting the pressing jaws, wherein the pressing sections form a receiving section and wherein pressing the lever sections apart causes the receiving section to close. An actuator spindle, a spindle nut and at least two actuator levers are provided, and each actuator lever is swivel connected at one end to the lever section of a pressing jaw and each actuator lever is swivel connected at another end to the spindle nut. A method for pressing fittings for the production of pipe connections is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Viega Technology GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Andreas Schneider, Dominik Kramer, David Schmitt, Jörg Rosenthal, Markus Faulstich, Nadine Riili, Detlev Schmitt, Uwe Grünkemeier, Matthias Stahlschmidt
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Publication number: 20220136626Abstract: Described herein are gasketed pipe joints. In some embodiments, a joined pipe assembly is provided that includes: a first pipe having a first end portion with a first outer diameter and a first inner diameter; a second pipe having a second end portion with a second inner diameter and a second outer diameter, wherein the second end portion nests within the first end portion; wherein the first end portion includes a circumferential recess, and wherein an inner surface of the recess is located radially outward of the first inner diameter to form a pocket; and an adhesive gasket positioned in the pocket and adhered to the inner surface of the recess and the second outer diameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Andreas Schneider, Xiaoyi Xie
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Publication number: 20220106497Abstract: The present disclosure provides a coating composition comprising an initiator, a radical curable polyurethane having ethylenically unsaturated functional groups, and a liquid phase, wherein the radical curable polyurethane having ethylenically unsaturated functional groups comprises the reaction products of A) a polyol component; B) a polyisocyanate component; C) an isocyanate-reactive surfactant; and D) isocyanate-reactive component having ethylenically unsaturated functional groups. The resulting cured polyurethane coating resists surface damage by fine particles and has at least washable anti-fog properties, if not permanent anti-fog properties. Articles prepared with a coating according to this invention are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: David Hess, Kiranmayi Deshpande, Andreas Schneider, Ren-Zhi Jin
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Publication number: 20220051778Abstract: The disclosure is concerned with privacy and integrity of personalized protected health information when transmitted to a cloud computing facility and subsequently distributed to a plurality of stakeholders. An electronic unit of a drug delivery device is configured to prepare payload data comprising data items according to an allocation scheme, and to encrypt, based on an encryption key, and transmit data including the payload data. The allocation scheme and the encryption key are defined for each of a plurality of data subscribers. Accordingly, personalized protected health information payload data is suitably protected with generator-to-subscriber or pass-through data security measures, and any intermediary node or data server in the communication network lacking a matching decryption key will not have access to unencrypted payload data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Florian Kühni, Dominik Reubi, Andreas Schneider, Simon Schüpbach
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Publication number: 20210268623Abstract: The investion related to a slide-grinding body having two sections that come to a point and emanate from a base cross-section, wherein the geometry of the base cross-section (4) has curved flanks, the base cross-section is the largest at the centre and the cross-section becomes linearly or exponentially smaller towards the points of the sections (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Franz Gruber, Andreas Schneider
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Patent number: 11092265Abstract: The invention relates to a fitting to be connected to at least one pipe, in particular a plastic pipe or plastic-metal composite pipe, having a main body, having at least one supporting body connected to the main body for insertion into a pipe end and having at least one pressing sleeve connected to the main body for receiving the pipe end, the pressing sleeve having a cylindrical pressing section. The technical problem of improving the fitting for pressing, in particular with small motor-driven or manually driven pressing tools, is solved by the fact that the pressing sleeve is made of a metal with a microhardness of less than 65 HV 1, in particular less than 50 HV 1, preferably in the range from 40 to 50 HV 1 measured according to Vickers, and that the ratio of wall thickness of the pressing section to the outer diameter of the pressing section is less than 0.06, preferably in the range from 0.03 to 0.06. The invention also relates to a method for establishing a connection.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Viega Technology GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Andreas Schneider, Dominik Kramer, David Schmitt, Nadine Riili, Detlev Schmitt
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Patent number: 11075762Abstract: The present document relates to transcoding of metadata, and in particular to a method and system for transcoding metadata with reduced computational complexity. A transcoder configured to transcode an inbound bitstream comprising an inbound content frame and an associated inbound metadata frame into an outbound bitstream comprising an outbound content frame and an associated outbound metadata frame is described. The inbound content frame is indicative of a signal encoded according to a first codec system and the outbound content frame is indicative of the signal encoded according to a second codec system. The transcoder is configured to identify an inbound block of metadata from the inbound metadata frame, the inbound block of metadata associated with an inbound descriptor indicative of one or more properties of metadata comprised within the inbound block of metadata, and to generate the outbound metadata frame from the inbound metadata frame based on the inbound descriptor.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignees: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Dolby International ABInventors: Andreas Schneider, Christof Fersch, Martin Wolters, Jeffrey Riedmiller, Scott Gregory Norcross, Michael Grant
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Patent number: 11036410Abstract: A method includes varying a number of clock characteristics of each a plurality of memory devices of a memory concurrently, determining a fitness of the memory for each variation of the number of clock characteristics, selecting a particular variation of the number of clock characteristics based on the determined fitness of the memory for the particular variation, changing a setting in each of the plurality of memory devices corresponding to the particular variation to generate an additional variation of the number of clock characteristics, and determining a fitness of the memory for the additional variation.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Peter Mayer, Martin Brox, Wolfgang Anton Spirkl, Marcos Alvarez Gonzalez, Casto Salobrena Garcia, Andreas Schneider
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Publication number: 20210085880Abstract: Monitoring an injection process executed by a variable dose injection device with feedback means for generating a number of feedback events proportionate to the dose to be determined is disclosed. A dialed or injected dose is determined by measuring a first signal of the process comprising a first signal peak related to a feedback event; detecting the first signal peak in the first signal; selecting an evaluation interval comprising the detected peak and adapted to an expected peak duration; deriving, from the first signal limited to the evaluation interval, a feature or characterizing parameter of the feedback event; identifying, from the derived feature, the feedback event as one of a dial up, dial down, or expel feedback event, and counting identified feedback events to determine the dialed or the ejected dose. The two-stage approach with serially executed peak detection and peak identification allows to optimize data storage and processing power.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Jürg STECK, Andreas SCHNEIDER, Simon DÄHLER, Jürg HIRSCHEL, Krista KAPPELER, Florian KÜHNI, Simon SCHÜPBACH, Amir FERIANI, Ludovic ZULLIGER
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Patent number: 10913876Abstract: Provided herein are adhesive compositions comprising a polyurea-poly(meth)acrylate interpenetrating polymer network. Further provided are two-part curable adhesive compositions comprising a Part A initiator composition and a Part B activator composition. The Part A initiator composition comprises an organoborane-amine complex and the Part B activator composition comprises an isocyanate that is reactive with the amine portion of the organoborane-amine complex to liberate organoborane from the organoborane-amine complex. Further provided are methods of using an adhesive composition comprising a polyurea-poly(meth)acrylate interpenetrating polymer network, such as, for example, in joining and/or bonding together polyolefin materials (e.g., polypropylene random copolymer (PP-R) pipes).Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: IPS CorporationInventors: Xiaoyi Xie, Andreas Schneider
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Publication number: 20210023913Abstract: An air vent for a motor vehicle includes a housing with an air channel for feeding air and a hemisphere. The hemisphere is mounted in a rotatable manner within the housing such that air fed through the air channel is deflected on the housing before it exits from the air vent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Marc-Lieven Heth, Andreas Schneider
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Patent number: D917694Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Ypsomed AGInventors: Andreas Schneider, Christoph Jordi, Leos Urbanek
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Patent number: D953893Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: EnOcean GmbHInventors: Sven Klausnitzer, Andreas Schneider
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Patent number: D973202Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Ypsomed AGInventors: Simon Schuepbach, Simon Scheurer, Mario Bernhard, Andreas Schneider, Christoph Jordi