Patents by Inventor Carsten Franke
Carsten Franke 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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Publication number: 20150274483Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a looped pile film roll core used for winding a polymeric film, a method of winding film on the looped pile film roll core, and a roll of film that includes the looped pile film roll core. The disclosure describes an article and a process to reduce the core impressions created by the starting end of a web on the adjacent web layers next to the core. In one particular embodiment, the present disclosure can lead to a reduction in the amount and severity of such core impressions on a wound polymeric film, by reducing the amount of stress in adjacent layers of wound web.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Kevin B. Newhouse, Bruce E. Tait, Terence A. Lee, Michael L. Smith, Kyle Taggart, Stanley T. Mann, Ronald L. Holmes, Timothy J. Edman, Mark T. Reed, Carsten Franke, Chris J. Tanley
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Patent number: 9142196Abstract: Devices for presentation of digital radiographic images. One device includes a memory for storing at least one radiographic image and a computer connected to the memory. The computer includes a processor and a user interface module. The user interface module is configured to generate a graphical user interface and to cause the at least one radiographic image to be displayed on a display in a first mode and in a light box mode that simulates the appearance of a physical light box.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: DENTAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: George J. Cocco, Carsten Franke, Michael J. Parma, Louis P. Rubinfield, John Steck, David A. Sebok, Martin Kaplan
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Publication number: 20140180741Abstract: A system for automatic allocation of mobile resources to tasks includes at least one database which stores for each mobile resource at least one corresponding skill and equipment as well as street-level data defining roads between a current location of the mobile resources and the distant locations of the tasks, and dynamic data which have a potential impact on performance of the tasks. A first data processing unit allocates the mobile resources to the tasks by allocating the skills to the tasks and the equipment, and generates for at least one of the mobile resources an individual schedule including a street-by-street route along the roads to the respectively allocated tasks. A second data processing unit continuously pre-processes the dynamic data to determine which of the street-level data, the mobile resources and the tasks are affected by the dynamic data and to what extent, and to amend the affected data accordingly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: ABB Technology AGInventors: Carsten Franke, Iiro Harjunkoski, Sleman Saliba
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Publication number: 20140115535Abstract: Methods and systems for viewing images. One system includes a source of images, a computer, and a screen. The computer includes a processor and a user interface module configured to generate a graphical user interface or GUI. The GUI includes a first window in which one or more of the images are displayed. The GUI is displayed on the screen and the graphical user interface module generates an output or modifies the GUI in response to user input (e.g., tap, click, etc.). In response to the input, the graphical user interface generates an image-navigation map. The image-navigation map is displayed in a foreground of the first window and the one or more images are in displayed in a background of the first window. The image-navigation map includes one or more thumbnail images of at least one of the one or more images.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: DENTAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: George J. Cocco, Carsten Franke, Michael J. Parma, Louis P. Rubinfield, John Steck
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Patent number: 8606416Abstract: A system and method of controlling an electricity generating system that includes at least one intermittent energy source generating plant are disclosed. An exemplary method includes calculating actual operating parameters of the at least one intermittent energy source generating plant; calculating forecast operating parameters of the at least one intermittent energy source generating plant; generating intermittent energy source contingency definitions from such actual operating parameters and forecast operating parameters; analysing the intermittent energy source contingency definitions to provide contingency analyses; and controlling the electricity generating system in dependence upon such contingency analyses.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2010Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.Inventors: Mats Larsson, Adrian Timbus, Carsten Franke, Jorge Naccarino
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Publication number: 20130054211Abstract: A method is disclosed for performing stochastic unit commitment for an electric power grid with a first weather dependent power generation unit and a second weather dependent power generation unit and a number of loads. For each of the first and the second power generation units, a plurality of scenarios indicative of future power production is based on weather forecast data: First and second correlated scenarios are identified for the first and second weather dependent power generation units, respectively. The stochastic unit commitment is based on a single combined scenario representing the first and the second scenarios of the pair of correlated scenarios.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: ABB RESEARCH LTDInventors: Carsten FRANKE, Giovanni BECCUTI
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Patent number: 8205205Abstract: A method of processing a computational job with a plurality of processors is disclosed. A request to process a job is received, where the job has a priority level associated with the job. A first group of the processors is designated as being available to process the job, where the number of processors in the first group is based on the priority level associated with the job. A second group of the processors is designated as being available to process the job, where for each processor in the second group a current utilization rate of the processor is less than a second predetermined utilization rate. Then, the job is processed with one or more of the processors selected from the first group of processors and the second group of processors.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2007Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: SAP AGInventor: Carsten Franke
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Patent number: 8173079Abstract: A method for forming a structured polymeric film having a plurality of longitudinally spaced structured on both sides of the structured polymeric film is described. The method includes: providing a rotatable tool having an outer circumferential surface, the outer circumferential surface including a plurality of tool projections; providing a nip roll having a smooth conformable outer circumferential surface opposed to the outer circumferential surface of the tool; introducing a polymer layer into a nip between the tool and the nip roll; pressing the polymer layer between the tool and the nip roll to form web recesses into a first side of the polymer layer and web projections extending away from an opposing second side of the polymer layer, with the tool projections on the circumferential surface of the tool and form a structured web; and removing the structured web from the tool. Sample processing articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2011Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Bryan C. Feisel, Carsten Franke, Brent R. Hansen, David F. Slama
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Patent number: 8021628Abstract: A method for forming a structured polymeric film having a plurality of longitudinally spaced structured on both sides of the structured polymeric film is described. The method includes: providing a rotatable tool having an outer circumferential surface, the outer circumferential surface including a plurality of tool projections; providing a nip roll having a smooth conformable outer circumferential surface opposed to the outer circumferential surface of the tool; introducing a polymer layer into a nip between the tool and the nip roll; pressing the polymer layer between the tool and the nip roll to form web recesses into a first side of the polymer layer and web projections extending away from an opposing second side of the polymer layer, with the tool projections on the circumferential surface of the tool and form a structured web; and removing the structured web from the tool. Sample processing articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2006Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: 3M Innovatice Properties CompanyInventors: Bryan C. Feisel, Carsten Franke, Brent R. Hansen, David F. Slama
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Publication number: 20110210472Abstract: A method for forming a structured polymeric film having a plurality of longitudinally spaced structured on both sides of the structured polymeric film is described. The method includes: providing a rotatable tool having an outer circumferential surface, the outer circumferential surface including a plurality of tool projections; providing a nip roll having a smooth conformable outer circumferential surface opposed to the outer circumferential surface of the tool; introducing a polymer layer into a nip between the tool and the nip roll; pressing the polymer layer between the tool and the nip roll to form web recesses into a first side of the polymer layer and web projections extending away from an opposing second side of the polymer layer, with the tool projections on the circumferential surface of the tool and form a structured web; and removing the structured web from the tool. Sample processing articles are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Inventors: Bryan C. Feisel, Carsten Franke, Brent R. Hansen, David F. Slama
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Publication number: 20110202191Abstract: A system and method of controlling an electricity generating system that includes at least one intermittent energy source generating plant are disclosed. An exemplary method includes calculating actual operating parameters of the at least one intermittent energy source generating plant; calculating forecast operating parameters of the at least one intermittent energy source generating plant; generating intermittent energy source contingency definitions from such actual operating parameters and forecast operating parameters; analysing the intermittent energy source contingency definitions to provide contingency analyses; and controlling the electricity generating system in dependence upon such contingency analyses.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: ABB Research Ltd.Inventors: Mats LARSSON, Adrian Timbus, Carsten Franke, Jorge Naccarino
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Publication number: 20110103036Abstract: An optical film that includes a reflective polarizer and a stretched polymer film is disclosed. The stretched polymer film is laminated to the reflective polarizer, and the stretched polymer film exhibits a refractive index symmetry point at an angle of incidence in air of at least about 60 degrees in a plane of incidence parallel to a direction of greatest stretch.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventors: Ellen R. Bösl, Bert T. Chien, Carsten Franke, Shandon D. Hart, Brent A. Hedding, Donovan C. Karg, JR., Thomas J. Ludemann, Meghan A. Bradley, Mark B. O'Neill, Jeffrey A. Peterson, Joan M. Strobel, Huiwen Tai, John F. Van Derlofske, III, Michael F. Weber, Chiu Ping Wong, Richard J. Pokorny, John P. Baetzold
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Patent number: 7856499Abstract: A method and a system are described that involve autonomic provisioning of hosted applications with level of isolation terms. In one embodiment, the system includes an infrastructure registry to provide a set of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, an autonomic provisioning service unit to select a subset of the heterogeneous infrastructure resources, (the subset of resources to fulfill a service level agreement (SLA) with a corresponding level of isolation), and a monitoring unit to collect information about the subset of resources and send the collected information to the autonomic provisioning service unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Philip Robinson, Carsten Franke
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Publication number: 20090281000Abstract: A method for forming a structured polymeric film having a plurality of longitudinally spaced structured on both sides of the structured polymeric film is described. The method includes: providing a rotatable tool having an outer circumferential surface, the outer circumferential surface including a plurality of tool projections; providing a nip roll having a smooth conformable outer circumferential surface opposed to the outer circumferential surface of the tool; introducing a polymer layer into a nip between the tool and the nip roll; pressing the polymer layer between the tool and the nip roll to form web recesses into a first side of the polymer layer and web projections extending away from an opposing second side of the polymer layer, with the tool projections on the circumferential surface of the tool and form a structured web; and removing the structured web from the tool. Sample processing articles are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2006Publication date: November 12, 2009Inventors: Bryan C. Feisel, Carsten Franke, Brent R. Hansen, David F. Slama
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Publication number: 20090238078Abstract: A method and a system are described that involve autonomic provisioning of hosted applications with level of isolation terms. In one embodiment, the system includes an infrastructure registry to provide a set of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, an autonomic provisioning service unit to select a subset of the heterogeneous infrastructure resources, (the subset of resources to fulfill a service level agreement (SLA) with a corresponding level of isolation), and a monitoring unit to collect information about the subset of resources and send the collected information to the autonomic provisioning service unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: September 24, 2009Inventors: Philip Robinson, Carsten Franke
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Publication number: 20080229318Abstract: A method of processing a computational job with a plurality of processors is disclosed. A request to process a job is received, where the job has a priority level associated with the job. A first group of the processors is designated as being available to process the job, where the number of processors in the first group is based on the priority level associated with the job. A second group of the processors is designated as being available to process the job, where for each processor in the second group a current utilization rate of the processor is less than a second predetermined utilization rate. Then, the job is processed with one or more of the processors selected from the first group of processors and the second group of processors.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: Carsten Franke
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Publication number: 20060157381Abstract: A carrier tape includes a longitudinal strip having a plurality of component receiving pockets positioned therein. The pocket depth is greater than a thickness of the longitudinal strip. Adjacent pockets are spaced apart by a distance less than approximately five times the thickness of the longitudinal strip. Sidewalls separating adjacent pockets have a height greater than the pocket depth minus a height of a component which the pockets are configured to receive. The carrier tape is produced by providing a rotatable tool and a nip roll having a conformable outer circumferential surface opposed to the tool. The outer circumferential surface of the tool includes projections for forming the pockets. A polymer web is introduced into a nip between the tool and the nip roll, and embossed with the projections on the circumferential surface of the tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2005Publication date: July 20, 2006Inventors: James Adams, William Bryan, Daniel Cronch, Jose de Souza, Bryan Feisel, Carsten Franke, Brent Hansen, Mitchell Huang, Nelson Sewall, David Slama, Joseph Weiler
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Publication number: 20060159888Abstract: The present disclosure relates to optical bodies including one or more norbornene-based cyclic olefin film layers and one or more rough strippable skin layers operatively connected to a surface of the norbornene-based cyclic olefin film layer. The rough strippable skin layer comprises a continuous phase and a disperse phase. Methods of producing such optical bodies are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2005Publication date: July 20, 2006Inventors: Timothy Hebrink, Joan Strobel, Barry Rosell, Kevin Hamer, Kristopher Derks, Robert Taylor, Ronald Borst, Ellen Bosl, Bert Chien, Carsten Franke, Gregg Patnode, Kevin Schaffer
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Publication number: 20030211281Abstract: The invention refers to a laminate comprising a first polymer layer and a second polymer layer wherein the first polymer layer comprises at least one polyolefin is simultaneously biaxially stretched and the second polymer layer is extruded upon or heat-bonded to the first polymer layer, said laminate exhibiting a variation of the laminate shrinkage in cross direction over a length of at least 100 m in machine direction of less than about 0.6%.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2002Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventors: Carsten Franke, Thomas Hertlein