Patents by Inventor Benjamin Betz
Benjamin Betz 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: 11376550Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst which comprises a carrier substrate of length L, which extends between a first end face a and a second end face b, and catalytically active material zones A, B and C of different composition, wherein—material zone A comprises palladium or palladium and platinum with a weight ratio of Pd:Pt>1, and cerium oxide, —material zone B comprises platinum or platinum and palladium with a weight ratio of Pt:Pd>1, and cerium oxide and/or cerium/zirconium mixed oxide, and—material zone C comprises platinum or platinum and palladium with a weight ratio of Pt:Pd>1, and a carrier oxide, and wherein—material zone B is arranged above material zone A, and—material zone C is arranged above material zone B, and, starting from the second end face b of the carrier substrate, extends over a length of up to 60% of the length L. The invention also relates to a catalyst arrangement containing said catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KGInventors: Anke Woerz, Ruediger Hoyer, Benjamin Betz
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Publication number: 20210252456Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst which comprises a carrier substrate of length L, which extends between a first end face a and a second end face b, and catalytically active material zones A, B and C of different composition, wherein—material zone A comprises palladium or palladium and platinum with a weight ratio of Pd:Pt>1, and cerium oxide, —material zone B comprises platinum or platinum and palladium with a weight ratio of Pt:Pd>1, and cerium oxide and/or cerium/zirconium mixed oxide, and—material zone C comprises platinum or platinum and palladium with a weight ratio of Pt:Pd>1, and a carrier oxide, and wherein—material zone B is arranged above material zone A, and—material zone C is arranged above material zone B, and, starting from the second end face b of the carrier substrate, extends over a length of up to 60% of the length L. The invention also relates to a catalyst arrangement containing said catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KGInventors: Anke WOERZ, Ruediger HOYER, Benjamin BETZ
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Patent number: 10606615Abstract: A computer application launcher can be displayed. In response to receiving a first user input associated with the launcher while a computer application indicated by the launcher is not running, a destination list can be displayed. The destination list can include one or more destinations indicating one or more items that can be performed by a computer application. In response to a second user input associated with the destination list and indicating selection of a destination on the destination list, the application can be launched and instructed to perform an item indicated by the selected destination.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Benjamin Betz, Andrew Jennings, Stephan Hoefnagels, Patrice L. Miner
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Publication number: 20200057534Abstract: A computer application launcher can be displayed. In response to receiving a first user input associated with the launcher while a computer application indicated by the launcher is not running, a destination list can be displayed. The destination list can include one or more destinations indicating one or more items that can be performed by a computer application. In response to a second user input associated with the destination list and indicating selection of a destination on the destination list, the application can be launched and instructed to perform an item indicated by the selected destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Benjamin Betz, Andrew Jennings, Stephan Hoefnagels, Patrice L. Miner
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Patent number: 9696888Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling an application-launching interface for multiple modes. This interface enables a user to quickly and easily select to launch applications associated with different modes. A user may avoid wading through multiple interfaces, making multiple selections, and/or a cognitive load associated with deciding on a mode with which to interact.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Marina Dukhon, Varun Bahl, Patrice L. Miner, Jeffrey S. Miller, Benjamin A. Betz
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Publication number: 20170160888Abstract: A computer application launcher can be displayed. In response to receiving a first user input associated with the launcher while a computer application indicated by the launcher is not running, a destination list can be displayed. The destination list can include one or more destinations indicating one or more items that can be performed by a computer application. In response to a second user input associated with the destination list and indicating selection of a destination on the destination list, the application can be launched and instructed to perform an item indicated by the selected destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Benjamin Betz, Andrew Jennings, Stephan Hoefnagels, Patrice L. Miner
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Patent number: 9612847Abstract: A computer application launcher can be displayed. In response to receiving a first user input associated with the launcher while a computer application indicated by the launcher is not running, a destination list can be displayed. The destination list can include one or more destinations indicating one or more items that can be performed by a computer application. In response to a second user input associated with the destination list and indicating selection of a destination on the destination list, the application can be launched and instructed to perform an item indicated by the selected destination.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Benjamin Betz, Andrew Jennings, Stephan Hoefnagels, Patrice L. Miner
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Patent number: 9519511Abstract: Techniques for application activation are described herein. An operating system (OS) can be configured to incorporate various extension points that are serviceable through contracts defining individual invocations of extensible functionality. The extensible functionality is integrated as part of the OS and controlled by the OS in a centralized manner. However, the specific implementations of the extensible functionally are offloaded to applications using the contracts. For example, the OS can include or otherwise make use of a centralized application activation component that employs an object-oriented approach to invoke applications to perform particular contracts. The application activation component can pass information describing a particular contract to activate a designated application and enable the application to service the contract in the manner specified by the OS.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Daniel J. Oliver, Benjamin A. Betz, Christopher J. Guzak, Relja Ivanovic, Ramaswamy Krishnan-Chittur, Brandon H. Paddock
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Publication number: 20150286499Abstract: Techniques for application activation are described herein. An operating system (OS) can be configured to incorporate various extension points that are serviceable through contracts defining individual invocations of extensible functionality. The extensible functionality is integrated as part of the OS and controlled by the OS in a centralized manner. However, the specific implementations of the extensible functionally are offloaded to applications using the contracts. For example, the OS can include or otherwise make use of a centralized application activation component that employs an object-oriented approach to invoke applications to perform particular contracts. The application activation component can pass information describing a particular contract to activate a designated application and enable the application to service the contract in the manner specified by the OS.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Daniel J. Oliver, Benjamin A. Betz, Christopher J. Guzak, Relja Ivanovic, Ramaswamy Krishnan-Chittur, Brandon H. Paddock
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Patent number: 9063776Abstract: Techniques for application activation are described herein. An operating system (OS) can be configured to incorporate various extension points that are serviceable through contracts defining individual invocations of extensible functionality. The extensible functionality is integrated as part of the OS and controlled by the OS in a centralized manner. However, the specific implementations of the extensible functionally are offloaded to applications using the contracts. For example, the OS can include or otherwise make use of a centralized application activation component that employs an object-oriented approach to invoke applications to perform particular contracts. The application activation component can pass information describing a particular contract to activate a designated application and enable the application to service the contract in the manner specified by the OS.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Daniel J. Oliver, Benjamin A. Betz, Christopher J. Guzak, Relja Ivanovic, Ramaswamy Krishnan-Chittur, Brandon H. Paddock
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Patent number: 9047469Abstract: Techniques for modes for applications are described. In one or more implementations, multiple operational modes are provided for an application. The operational modes can be associated with different resource access permissions, trust statuses, graphical user interfaces, and so on. An application can be launched in a particular one of the operational modes based on a context in which a request to launch the application is received. In one or more implementations, correlations between launch request contexts for an application and operational modes can be configured to enable different launch requests to cause an application to launch into different operational modes.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jason R. Olson, John M. Sheehan, Christopher S. Dickens, Benjamin A. Betz, Matthew S. Merry, Rodger W. Benson, Ian H. Kim, Daniel J. Oliver, Elliot H. Omiya, Timothy R. Sullivan, Scott Dart
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Publication number: 20150113476Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling an application-launching interface for multiple modes. This interface enables a user to quickly and easily select to launch applications associated with different modes. A user may avoid wading through multiple interfaces, making multiple selections, and/or a cognitive load associated with deciding on a mode with which to interact.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Marina Dukhon, Varun Bahl, Patrice L. Miner, Jeffrey S. Miller, Benjamin A. Betz
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Patent number: 8990733Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling an application-launching interface for multiple modes. This interface enables a user to quickly and easily select to launch applications associated with different modes. A user may avoid wading through multiple interfaces, making multiple selections, and/or a cognitive load associated with deciding on a mode with which to interact.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Marina Dukhon, Varun Bahl, Patrice L. Miner, Jeffrey S. Miller, Benjamin A. Betz
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Patent number: 8819593Abstract: File management user interface techniques are described. In one or more implementations, properties of a file are displayed in a user interface by a computing device. In response to selection of a particular one of the properties in the user interface, one or more representations of one or more other files that include a corresponding value of the particular property are displayed, respectively, of the file.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Scott D. Hoogerwerf, Aryeh N. Polsky, Rolf A. Ebeling, Benjamin A. Betz, Christopher J. Guzak, Brendan M. Dohm, Michael J. Gilmore, Arun Gurunathan
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Publication number: 20130067473Abstract: Techniques for modes for applications are described. In one or more implementations, multiple operational modes are provided for an application. The operational modes can be associated with different resource access permissions, trust statuses, graphical user interfaces, and so on. An application can be launched in a particular one of the operational modes based on a context in which a request to launch the application is received. In one or more implementations, correlations between launch request contexts for an application and operational modes can be configured to enable different launch requests to cause an application to launch into different operational modes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Inventors: Jason R. Olson, John M. Sheehan, Christopher S. Dickens, Benjamin A. Betz, Matthew S. Merry, Rodger W. Benson, Ian H. Kim, Daniel J. Oliver, Elliot H. Omiya, Timothy R. Sullivan, Scott Dart
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Patent number: 8375335Abstract: Methods and systems providing a user interface control allowing a user to specify a scope of items on a computer system or network is disclosed. Certain aspects provide an input control through which a user can specify an explicit scope, or range, of items, while also identifying explicit exclusions from the specified scope, thereby reducing ambiguity regarding identification of items included and items excluded from the scope. When a user explicitly selects an item for inclusion in the scope, the explicitly selected item is added to the scope definition, and all descendants of the explicitly selected item are implicitly selected for inclusion. When a user explicitly selects an item for exclusion from the scope, the explicitly selected item is added to the scope definition as an exclusion from an explicitly included item, and all descendants of the explicitly selected item are implicitly selected for exclusion.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lyon King-Fook Wong, Stephan Hoefnagels, Timothy P. McKee, Chris J. Guzak, David G. De Vorchik, Benjamin A. Betz
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Publication number: 20120304200Abstract: Techniques for application activation are described herein. An operating system (OS) can be configured to incorporate various extension points that are serviceable through contracts defining individual invocations of extensible functionality. The extensible functionality is integrated as part of the OS and controlled by the OS in a centralized manner. However, the specific implementations of the extensible functionally are offloaded to applications using the contracts. For example, the OS can include or otherwise make use of a centralized application activation component that employs an object-oriented approach to invoke applications to perform particular contracts. The application activation component can pass information describing a particular contract to activate a designated application and enable the application to service the contract in the manner specified by the OS.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventors: Daniel J. Oliver, Benjamin A. Betz, Christopher J. Guzak, Relja Ivanovic, Ramaswamy Krishnan-Chittur, Brandon H. Paddock
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Publication number: 20120159395Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling an application-launching interface for multiple modes. This interface enables a user to quickly and easily select to launch applications associated with different modes. A user may avoid wading through multiple interfaces, making multiple selections, and/or a cognitive load associated with deciding on a mode with which to interact.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Rebecca Deutsch, Marina Dukhon, Varun Bahl, Patrice L. Miner, Jeffrey S. Miller, Benjamin A. Betz
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Publication number: 20120124502Abstract: File management user interface techniques are described. In one or more implementations, properties of a file are displayed in a user interface by a computing device. In response to selection of a particular one of the properties in the user interface, one or more representations of one or more other files that include a corresponding value of the particular property are displayed, respectively, of the file.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Scott D. Hoogerwerf, Aryeh N. Polsky, Rolf A. Ebeling, Benjamin A. Betz, Christopher J. Guzak, Brendan M. Dohm, Michael J. Gilmore, Arun Gurunathan
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Patent number: 7984057Abstract: The present invention provides a computer method and system for querying or searching for at least one data file corresponding to a query definition. A first query is received which may provide a query definition that may be used as a scope of search for a second query. Modifications of the scope of search based on modification of the first query may be automatically reflected in the scope of search for the second query. The scope of search for the second query may further be a combination of a plurality of scopes based on a plurality of user-defined queries.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2005Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Benjamin A Betz, David G. De Vorchik, Lyon F. K. Wong, Timothy P McKee