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).

  • Patent number: 11545561
    Abstract: A MOSFET includes a semiconductor body having a first side, a drift region, a body region forming a first pn-junction with the drift region, a source region forming a second pn-junction with the body region, in a vertical cross-section, a dielectric structure on the first side and having an upper side; a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, a contact trench between the first and second gate electrodes, extending through the dielectric structure to the source region, in a horizontal direction a width of the contact trench has, in a first plane, a first value, and, in a second plane, a second value which is at most about 2.5 times the first value, and a first contact structure arranged on the dielectric structure having a through contact portion arranged in the contact trench, and in Ohmic contact with the source region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Andreas Riegler, Wolfgang Jantscher, Manfred Pippan, Maik Stegemann
  • Patent number: 11541811
    Abstract: A system of rear view assemblies for a vehicle includes at least one first rear view assembly mounted to a driver side of the vehicle to observe traffic conditions behind the driver side, at least one second rear view assembly mounted on a passenger side of the vehicle to observe traffic conditions behind the passenger side, and a vision system. A vehicle including such a system is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company Limited
    Inventors: Graham Rehill, Andrew Lettis, Andreas Herrmann, David Derry Chamberlain, Callum Scott-Collins
  • Patent number: 11545369
    Abstract: An electronic component includes a lead frame; a semiconductor chip arranged above the lead frame; and a connection layer sequence arranged between the lead frame and the semiconductor chip, wherein the connection layer sequence includes a first intermetallic layer including gold and indium or gold, indium and tin, a second intermetallic layer including indium and a titanium compound, indium and nickel, indium and platinum or indium and titanium, and a third intermetallic layer including indium and gold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Mathias Wendt, Andreas Weimar
  • Patent number: 11544647
    Abstract: A computing device includes a processor and associated memory. The processor is configured to execute a personal information management service stored in memory to send a first calendar entry for display on a calendar interface for a user. The first calendar entry is for a first account of the user of a first domain. The processor sends a second calendar entry for display on the calendar interface. The second calendar entry is for a calendar of a second account of the user of a second domain. The processor receives a request for an availability of the user from a requesting user having a third account of the first domain. In response to the request, the processor sends to the requesting user the first calendar entry including first calendar entry details, and the second calendar entry without second calendar entry details.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Victoria Elizabeth Milton, Charlie Ricafort Chung, Julia Nancy Foran, Jaya Matthew, Roma Ajit Shah, Mirela Dal Col Silva Correa, Hemant Sharma, Dipak Sarjerao Pawar, Haebin Seo, Montine Andrea Rummel
  • Patent number: 11544802
    Abstract: A system for controlling prepaid delivery of utilities includes a utility meter with a cutoff device for enabling or disabling delivery of a utility; and a server connected to the utility meter via a network. The utility meter receives a usage limit from the server, measures usage of the utility by the load, and when the usage limit is exceeded, activates the cutoff device. The utility meter transmits the measured usage to the server at configurable intervals. The server maintains an account balance associated with the load, receives the measured usage from the utility meter, and decrements the account balance based on the measured usage. When the account balance is exhausted, the server sends a command to activate the cutoff device to the utility meter. Otherwise, the server generates a further usage limit based on the account balance, and sends the further usage limit to the utility meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ORTIVA CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Frank Nest, Andreas Schröder
  • Patent number: 11542007
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a dual configuration aircraft lavatory includes a plurality of walls enclosing and defining a lavatory interior space, wherein one of the walls is coextensive with a portion of the cabin. Within the lavatory interior space are a toilet, a washing station and a waste receptacle movable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the waste receptacle is attached to a wall of the lavatory between the washing station and a door wall. In the second position, the waste receptacle occupies a second predetermined volume of space in the aircraft cabin separated from a first predetermined volume of space occupied by the waste receptacle in the first position. Moving the waste receptacle from the first position to the second position reveals additional space within the lavatory sufficient so that two adult humans simultaneously fit within the lavatory interior space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventors: René Waldheuer, Andreas Heidtmann
  • Patent number: 11544194
    Abstract: A method of performing a copy-on-write on a shared memory page is carried out by a device communicating with a processor via a coherence interconnect. The method includes: adding a page table entry so that a request to read a first cache line of the shared memory page includes a cache-line address of the shared memory page and a request to write to a second cache line of the shared memory page includes a cache-line address of a new memory page; in response to the request to write to the second cache line, storing new data of the second cache line in a second memory and associating the second cache-line address with the new data stored in the second memory; and in response to a request to read the second cache line, reading the new data of the second cache line from the second memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Irina Calciu, Andreas Nowatzyk, Pratap Subrahmanyam
  • Patent number: 11545034
    Abstract: Methods, computer programs, apparatuses, a transportation vehicle, and a traffic entity for updating an environmental model at a transportation vehicle. The method for a transportation vehicle and for updating an environmental model of the transportation vehicle includes obtaining an environmental model of the transportation vehicle, the environmental model having static and dynamic objects in the environment of the transportation vehicle along at least a part of the trajectory of the transportation vehicle; assigning information related to correctness probabilities at least to dynamic objects of the environmental model; determining at least one dynamic object for which the information related to the correctness probability indicates a correctness probability below a threshold; and transmitting a broadcast message to the environment to request further information on the at least one dynamic object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Pfadler, Guillaume Jornod
  • Patent number: 11542965
    Abstract: A method for operating a hydraulic valve of a hydraulic device of a motor vehicle transmission device, wherein an actuating current of the hydraulic valve is superposed with a modulation alternating current in order to adjust a shaking vibration of the hydraulic valve by a control device, wherein a deviation between an actual pressure resulting from the actuating current and a setpoint pressure determined as a function of the actuating current is determined for the hydraulic device by means of an electronic computing device, and an amplitude and/or a frequency of the modulation alternating current is increased as compared to a starting value equalizing a hysteresis of the actual pressure relative to the setpoint pressure, as a function of a tolerance range being exceeded by the determined deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Birk
  • Patent number: 11545746
    Abstract: A full-duplex User Terminal Panel (UTP) including one or more User Terminal Modules (UTM) having a plurality of Tx antenna elements. Each of the Tx antenna elements spaced apart from one another by a distance dTx. The full-duplex UTP further includes a plurality of Rx antenna elements. Each of the Rx antenna elements are spaced apart from one another by a distance dRx. Furthermore, the Tx antenna elements may be spaced according to a Tx lattice dTx, such that the Tx lattice dTx spacing arrangement provides grating lobe-free scanning in an elevation plane at a Tx frequency range. The Rx antenna elements are spaced according to an Rx lattice dRx, such that the Rx lattice dRx spacing arrangement provides grating lobe-free scanning in an elevation plane at a Rx frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: UTVATE Corporation
    Inventors: Amin Reda, Siamak Ebadi, Eric David Kwiatkowski, Elahehsadat Torabi, Stefan William Turkowski, Andrea Pabst, Andres Felipe Osorio
  • Patent number: 11542663
    Abstract: Fibrous structures having two or more zones, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures, and method for making such fibrous structures and/or sanitary tissue products are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andrea Swinicki, Cassandra Ann Sepello, Matthew Steven Ritter, Katie Kristine Glass, Rachael Eden Walther, Guillermo Matias Vidal
  • Patent number: 11545623
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for fabrication of memory cells are described. An electrode layer may have an initial thickness variation after being formed. The electrode layer may be smoothened prior to forming additional layers of a memory cell, thus decreasing the thickness variation. The subsequent layer fabricated may have a thickness variation that may be dependent on the thickness variation of the electrode layer. By decreasing the thickness variation of the electrode layer prior to forming the subsequent layer, the subsequent layer may also have a decreased thickness variation. The decreased thickness variation of the subsequent layer may impact the electrical behavior of memory cells formed from the subsequent layer. In some cases, the decreased thickness variation of the subsequent layer may allow for more predictable voltage thresholds for such memory cells, thus increasing the read windows for the memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pengyuan Zheng, Yongjun J. Hu, Yao Jin, Hongqi Li, Andrea Gotti
  • Patent number: 11542410
    Abstract: Bioactive coatings that are stabilized against inactivation by weathering are provided including a base including an enzyme associated therein, and a first polyoxyethylene present in the base and independent of the enzyme. The coatings are optionally overlayered onto a substrate to form an active coating facilitating the removal of organic stains or organic material from food, insects, or the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Corporation, Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Hongfei Jia, Ping Wang, Liting Zhang, Andreas Buthe, Xueyan Zhao, Songtao Wu, Masahiko Ishii, Minjuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11541498
    Abstract: A collar system for a dust extractor is provided including: a collar including a drill passage extending through the collar and an extension forming an internal passage that connects at one end with the drill passage, the extension being attachable to a housing of the dust extractor to enable the internal passage to connect to a suction passage of the dust extractor; and a cover mounted adjacent an entrance of the drill passage, the cover being moveable between a first position where it covers the entrance and a second position where is remote from the entrance, wherein the cover comprises at least hole that passes through the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Markus Rompel, Krystof Petele, Arthur Lauer, Andreas Friedrich, Clemens Duenser
  • Patent number: 11545997
    Abstract: A binary-coded structure document, (e.g., in an EXI format which is based on a structure document designed in a text-based description language, such as XML), is provided with a binary-coded index document, which is based on a structural part of the structure document. A storage representation of the binary-coded index document is stored in a working storage unit of the device, and the binary-coded structure document is stored in a background storage unit assigned to the device. A processing operation or a request by at least one processing process is carried out by accessing the storage representation of the binary-coded index document via an object interface, and in certain examples, fragments of the binary-coded structure document are loaded into the working storage unit by the object interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Richard Kuntschke, Andreas Scholz, Daniel Peintner
  • Patent number: 11541747
    Abstract: A motor vehicle with a pressure vessel system includes at least a first pressure vessel arranged in a first region of the motor vehicle and at least one second pressure vessel arranged in a second region of the motor vehicle having a lower intrusion probability than the first region. Fuel is preferentially removed first primarily from the at least one first pressure vessel. When the lower limit of fuel level or fuel temperature is reached in the at least one first pressure vessel, fuel is removed from the at least one second pressure vessel. If the fuel supply rate from the at least one first pressure vessel is lower than an overall fuel supply rate for an energy converter, fuel is removed from the at least one second pressure vessel to meet the overall fuel supply rate needed by the energy converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lorenz Ehgartner, Andreas Pelger, Klaus Szoucsek
  • Patent number: 11542276
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds useful for the treatment of narcolepsy or cataplexy in a subject in need thereof. Related pharmaceutical compositions and methods are also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Alkermes, Inc.
    Inventors: Lewis D. Pennington, Younggi Choi, Hoan Huynh, Brian M. Aquila, Ingo Andreas Mugge, Yuan Hu, James R. Woods, Roman A. Valiulin, Brian Kenneth Raymer, Jörg Martin Bentzien, Michael R. Hale, Jonathan Ward Lehmann, Daljit Matharu, Srinivasa Karra
  • Patent number: 11543182
    Abstract: A furnace assembly for a metal-making process, including: an electric arc furnace configured for flat bath operation and having a bottom, and an electromagnetic stirrer configured to be arranged underneath the bottom of the electric arc furnace to enable stirring of molten metal in the electric arc furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: ABB Schweiz AG, Tenova S.p.A.
    Inventors: Lidong Teng, Anders Lehman, Hongliang Yang, Andrea Grasselli, Silvio Maria Reali
  • Patent number: D974162
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Andrea Burdick
  • Patent number: D974288
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tobias Koeniger, Johannes Hammers, Andreas Spomer, Julian Winckler, Graham Keevy