Patents by Inventor Burkhard Mann

Burkhard Mann 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: 20210119672
    Abstract: The invention relates to a digital, distributed, wire-free communication system having at least two base station antennas arranged adjacent to each other, which are designed as sector antennas having different but adjacent sector illumination, and a concentrator, which communicates with the sector antennas by means of a digital communication signal having antenna-side data streams respectively assigned separately to each sector antenna. The concentrator combines the received antenna-side data streams from the sector antennas into a number of network-side data streams, differing from the number of antenna-side data streams, by using a signal processing matrix operation, wherein at least one of the network-side data streams leaving the concentrator includes parts of at least two antenna-side data streams from at least two adjacent sector antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Roland GABRIEL, Burkhard MANN
  • Patent number: 8981894
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved antenna device, characterized by the following additional features:—that each functional unit (21) can communicate bidirectionally with the remote control unit (RC) by means of the communication bus (23),—the configuration, the controller, and/or the querying of one or more functional units (21) of the at least one emitter device takes place over the entire communications bus (23),—the communication to the remote control unit (RC) is handled by each addressed functional unit (21), and—an internal communications bus (25) is provided for exchanging information and/or action states between the functional units (21) connected in the at least one emitter device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Burkhard Mann, Johann Schmid
  • Publication number: 20120062356
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved antenna device, characterized by the following additional features: that each functional unit (21) can communicate bidirectionally with the remote control unit (RC) by means of the communication bus (23), the configuration, the controller, and/or the querying of one or more functional units (21) of the at least one emitter device takes place over the entire communications bus (23), the communication to the remote control unit (RC) is handled by each addressed functional unit (21), and an internal communications bus (25) is provided for exchanging information and/or action states between the functional units (21) connected in the at least one emitter device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Burkhard Mann, Johann Schmid