Patents by Inventor Andreas

Andreas 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: 20250196601
    Abstract: Crystal, gasket and door glass of a motor vehicle; wherein the crystal has a first portion with a first thickness and a second portion with a second thickness; wherein said first thickness is greater than said second thickness; wherein the gasket forms with the crystal a first sealing zone and a second sealing zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Roberto Guandalini, Andrea Binotti
  • Publication number: 20250198354
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes engine core, combustor, compressor, and core shaft. The engine includes fan located upstream of engine core and arranged to be driven by core shaft. The engine includes a nacelle surrounding fan and engine core and defining a bypass duct located radially outside of engine core, where a bypass ratio, defined as ratio of mass flow rate of flow through bypass duct to mass flow rate of flow through core at cruise conditions, is at least 4. The engine includes plurality of actuators and fuel supply system arranged to supply fuel for combustion in combustor, and to supply fuel to fueldraulically drive at least one actuator of plurality of actuators. The fuel supply system is arranged to select between: causing fuel to actuate at least one actuator; and causing fuel to bypass the at least one actuator, based on sustainable aviation fuel—SAF—content of fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Benjamin J. KEELER, Craig W Bemment, Andrea Minelli, Paul W Ferra, Alastair G Hobday, Andrew T Smith
  • Publication number: 20250197137
    Abstract: Sorting machine for slabs—that includes a conveying plane arranged to move slabs along a conveying direction, a manipulator device arranged to grasp and release a slab and to move the slab between the conveying plane and one or more sorting stations. The manipulator device has a carriage that is movable along a substantially horizontal sliding direction, an elevator associated with the carriage and movable along a substantially vertical direction, a gripping device associated with the elevator, which is provided with a means for gripping at least one slab. The gripping device rotates around a substantially horizontal rotation axis and is movable along a transverse direction that is substantially horizontal and perpendicular to the sliding direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventor: ANDREA TORO
  • Publication number: 20250195613
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for reducing or eliminating biofilm formation are disclosed. The compositions include an O-glycan substituted silk fibroin with a predetermined degree and distribution of O-glycan substitution. The O-glycan substituted silk fibroin is not cytotoxic to the population of biofilm-forming microbes, but it reduces or prevents biofilm formation, nonetheless.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: David L. Kaplan, Katharina Ribbeck, Laura L. Kiessling, Jugal Kishore Sahoo, Caroline Andrea Werlang
  • Publication number: 20250198332
    Abstract: A method of operating a gas turbine engine comprising an engine core comprising a turbine, a compressor, a core shaft connecting the turbine to the compressor, and a combustor arranged to combust a fuel; a fan located upstream of the engine core; an oil system arranged to circulate oil; and a heat exchange system comprising at least one fuel-oil heat exchanger arranged to transfer heat from the oil to the fuel, wherein the method comprises: determining at least one fuel characteristic of the fuel arranged to be provided to the combustor; and modulating the heat exchange system so as to adjust the fuel temperature on entry to the combustor at cruise to a set level, the set level being based on the at least one fuel characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Benjamin J. KEELER, Craig W. BEMMENT, Alastair G. HOBDAY, Andrea MINELLI, Andrew T. SMITH
  • Publication number: 20250203340
    Abstract: There is provided a network node in a first wireless communication network, the network node comprising a receiver a processor and a transmitter. The receiver is arranged to receive an indication from a user equipment apparatus that the user equipment apparatus requires route selection policy rules, wherein the user equipment apparatus is a subscriber to the first wireless communication network. The processor is arranged to determine a list of network identities, each network identity identifying a wireless communication network that the network node is authorized to set route selection policy rules for the user equipment apparatus to apply when connected to the wireless communication network. The transmitter is arranged to send at least one route selection policy rule to the user equipment apparatus together with a policy delivery request, wherein the policy delivery request includes the list of network identities for which route selection policy rules provisioned from the network node must be applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Dimitrios KARAMPATSIS, Andreas KUNZ
  • Publication number: 20250203329
    Abstract: A user equipment centric cell including a user equipment (UE) that employs standardized vehicle-to-everything (V2X) messages and that includes at least a roadside unit (RSU) having sidelink (SL) groupcast capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: David Gonzalez Gonzalez, Abdelkarim Belhoula, Claus Chrometz, Andreas Andrae, Osvaldo Gonsa, Rikin Shah
  • Publication number: 20250195528
    Abstract: The present invention relates to (3S)-1-[5-tert-butyl-3-[(1-methyltetrazol-5-yl)methyl]triazolo[4,5-d]pyrimidin-7-yl]pyrrolidin-3-ol for use in the treatment of diabetic retinopathy, and its methods of treatment thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Katrijn Bogman, Antonello Luigi Girolamo Caruso, Barbara Ecabert, Andreas Guenther, Ulrich Friedrich Oskar Luhmann, Agnès Poirier, Bernhard Steiert, Christoph Ullmer
  • Publication number: 20250197620
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pipe comprising a polypropylene composition, which comprises a copolymer of propylene with comonomer units derived from 1-butene or 1-hexene and a copolymer of ethylene with comonomer units derived from 1-butene and/or 1-hexene, a process for producing said pipe and the use of said polypropylene composition for the production of a pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Andreas Albrecht, Gerhard Hubner, Franz Ruemer
  • Publication number: 20250197417
    Abstract: Provided herein is a crystalline intermediate useful in the manufacture of 6,7-epoxytigliane compounds. Methods of making the 6,7-epoxytigliane compounds using the crystalline intermediates are also provided, as well as high purity 6,7-epoxytigliane compounds that are able to be produced using the crystalline intermediate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Luca DOMENIGHINI, Lorena FUMAGALLI, Andrea GAMBINI, Nicola SARDONE
  • Publication number: 20250197983
    Abstract: New methods of making cold formed, extruded aluminum lithium alloys, and unrecrystallized products made therefrom are disclosed. A method may include one or more of heating an unrecrystallized extruded aluminum-lithium product to a treatment temperature, cooling the unrecrystallized extruded aluminum-lithium product from the treatment temperature to a post-treatment temperature, and cold forming the unrecrystallized extruded aluminum-lithium product into a second product form. Due to the unique processing conditions of the method, the second product form may wholly or partially retain the unrecrystallized microstructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Logan Kirsch, Les A. Yocum, Diana K. Denzer, Douglas S. Bae, Andreas K. Kulovits, Ronald G. Cheney
  • Publication number: 20250202392
    Abstract: A computer system comprising processing circuitry is presented. The processing circuitry is configured to disconnect an electrical motor from a drive train of a vehicle and to control a stator current vector driving the electrical motor to cause the electrical motor to accelerate to a predetermined rotational speed. The stator current indicating a stator current amplitude and stator current angle. The processing circuitry is further configured to, responsive to the electrical motor rotating at the predetermined rotational speed, control the stator current angle to maintain the predetermined rotational speed at a predetermined stator current amplitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sebastian HALL, Andreas GILLSTRÖM
  • Publication number: 20250198334
    Abstract: A method of operating a gas turbine engine includes an engine core with a turbine, compressor, fuel combustor, and core shaft connecting the turbine and compressor; a fan located upstream of the engine core; a gearbox that receives an input from the core shaft and outputs drive to the fan; an oil loop system supplying oil to the gearbox; and a heat exchange system including: air-oil and fuel-oil heat exchangers, and wherein the oil loop system includes a bypass pipe allowing oil to bypass a heat exchanger; and a bypass valve allowing the oil sent via the bypass pipe to be varied, the method including controlling the bypass valve wherein, under cruise conditions, a heat transfer ratio of: rate ? of ? heat ? transfer ? from ? oil ? to ? air rate ? of ? heat ? transfer ? from ? oil ? to ? fuel is in the range from 0 to 0.67.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Andrea MINELLI, Craig W. Bemment, Benjamin J. Keeler, Alastair G. Hobday, Andrew T. Smith
  • Publication number: 20250198578
    Abstract: An inflatable solar-powered light is provided. The solar-powered light includes a bladder and a solar-powered light assembly disposed entirely within the bladder. The solar-powered light assembly includes a solar panel, a rechargeable battery in electrical communication with the solar panel, and at least one light-emitting diode in electrical communication with the rechargeable battery. The bladder is substantially transparent, flexible, inflatable, and collapsible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Anna Stork, Andrea Sreshta
  • Publication number: 20250198343
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes an engine core including a turbine, combustor, compressor, and core shaft connecting the turbine to the compressor. The engine includes a fan located upstream of engine core and arranged to be driven by core shaft. The engine includes a nacelle surrounding the fan and engine core and defining bypass duct located radially outside of engine core, where bypass ratio, defined as the ratio of the mass flow rate of the flow through bypass duct to the mass flow rate of the flow through the core at cruise conditions, is at least 4. The engine includes plurality of actuators and fuel supply system arranged to supply fuel to fueldraulically drive at least one actuator of the plurality of actuators. At cruise, fuel temperature on entry into the at least one actuator is at least 5° C. greater than fuel temperature on entry to combustor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Benjamin J. KEELER, Craig W. BEMMENT, Andrea MINELLI, Paul W. FERRA, Alastair G. HOBDAY, Andrew T. SMITH
  • Publication number: 20250196792
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bumper crossbeam for a motor vehicle, which extends in the motor vehicle transverse direction and has a hollow profile in cross section, in particular a rectangular cross section, wherein a reinforcement plate is inserted in a central longitudinal section. The reinforcement plate is coupled on one side in the motor vehicle longitudinal direction to a front wall or rear wall of the hollow profile and has a distance in the motor vehicle longitudinal direction to the remaining front side or rear side and the front side or rear side in the area of the coupled point has a formation oriented in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle which corresponds to at least 80% of the length of the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventor: Andreas SCHILLER
  • Publication number: 20250197370
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds having the general formula Ib wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and Z are as described herein, composition including the compounds and methods of using the compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Lea Aurelie BOUCHE, Wolfgang GUBA, Georg JAESCHKE, Stefanie Katharina MESCH, Angelique PATINY-ADAM, Christian SCHNIDER, Sandra STEINER, Andreas Michael TOSSTORFF
  • Publication number: 20250202340
    Abstract: A system includes: an inverter configured to convert DC power from a battery to AC power to drive a motor, wherein the inverter includes: a power switch including a gate terminal; and a gate driver configured to: receive a pulse to control an operation of the power switch, generate, based on the received pulse, a first signal to the gate terminal to increase a gate voltage level of the power switch at a first rate from an off-state gate voltage level to a first on-state gate voltage level in a first time period, and generate, based on the received pulse, a second signal to the gate terminal to increase the gate voltage level of the power switch at a second rate, less than the first rate, to a second on-state gate voltage level in a second time period subsequent to the first time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: BorgWarner US Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Vishal Shivaji Undre, Chetan Ugare, Andreas Apelsmeier
  • Publication number: 20250199020
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of automatically managing calibration of an in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) system comprising executing calibration cycles/procedures comprising using calibration solutions, using a calibration solution comprising a first step of transporting the calibration solution to a measurement unit and a second step of measuring the calibration solution by the measurement unit. For each calibration cycle the method comprises starting repetition of the calibration procedure at the earliest at a start of a buffer time period before expiry of a respective calibration validity period, interrupting the calibration procedure upon receiving an order to execute a sample IVD test and restarting or resuming the calibration procedure after executing the sample IVD test, as long as repetition of the calibration procedure can be restarted or resumed within the buffer time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Richard Bruckner, Andreas Eicher, Li Gan, Franz Korbinian Schwesig-Stelzer
  • Publication number: 20250198335
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine for an aircraft, comprising: a combustor; a fuel-oil heat exchanger arranged to receive fuel from a fuel tank on board the aircraft and transfer heat from the oil to the fuel; a fuel return line arranged to return at least some fuel that has passed through the heat exchanger to the fuel tank; and a modulator valve arranged to modulate the flow of fuel along the fuel return line such that a ratio of a temperature, in Kelvin, of fuel in the fuel tank to a temperature, in Kelvin, of fuel being delivered to the combustor is less than 0.56. Methods of operating a gas turbine engine are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Benjamin J. KEELER, Craig W. BEMMENT, Andrea MINELLI, David M. BEAVEN, Paul W. FERRA, Christopher P. MADDEN, Peter SWANN, Martin K. YATES