Patents by Inventor Bernd Hutter

Bernd Hutter 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: 20180088036
    Abstract: In a method for the spectrally resolved measurement of optical properties of samples, a sample is arranged at a measurement position, and light is generated using a light source. Spectral components of the light are transmitted as excitation light in a first optical path to the sample. Light that has been emitted or transmitted by the sample is transmitted in a second optical path to a detector. A tunable monochromator is arranged in the first optical path and/or in the second optical path. A spectrum of the emitted or transmitted light is recorded over an effective spectral range by shifting a spectral passage range of the tunable monochromator. The method is characterized in that light in the form of light pulses with a specifiable pulse frequency is used. The spectral passage range of the tunable monochromator is shifted at a shifting speed continuously from an initial wavelength to an end wavelength for recording a spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Frank SCHLEIFENBAUM, Bernd HUTTER
  • Patent number: 8393234
    Abstract: An apparatus for arranging at least one sample container inside an optical measuring device includes a carrier for arranging the sample container and a ventilation device. The ventilation device is arranged adjacent to the carrier and is provided with at least one air outlet arranged above the carrier. The ventilation device includes at least one heating element for generating an airflow and heating up the airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Berthold Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Haefner, Bernd Hutter
  • Publication number: 20120036918
    Abstract: An apparatus for arranging at least on sample container inside an optical measuring device includes a carrier for arranging the sample container and a ventilation device. The ventilation device is arranged adjacent to the carrier and is provided with at least one air outlet arranged above the carrier. The ventilation device includes at least one heating element for generating an airflow and heating up the airflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: Berthold Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Haefner, Bernd Hutter
  • Publication number: 20030162171
    Abstract: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease which kills more than three million people every year. Although both a vaccine and various methods of diagnosis and treatment are available, the efficacy of these measures is in urgent need of improvement given that the number of new cases is once again on the increase. Research focuses, among other things, on the characterization of antigens secreted in the early stages of the infection as they constitute the first point of contact of the immune system with the pathogen. The 40 KD-antigen described herein is present in vivo as a hexamer and, despite its high molecular weight and lack of a signal sequence, is present extracellularly after only a few days of growth. Functionally, it is an L-alanine dehydrogenase and reacts with the monoclonal antibody HBT-10 directed against this protein. HBT-10 was the first known antibody specific to a protein of M. tuberculosis which did not cross-react with the vaccine strain M. bovis BCG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: LEOPOLD FLOHE, MAHAVIR SINGH, BERND HUTTER, AREND KOLK