Patents by Inventor Christian Frey

Christian Frey 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: 12361730
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for the digital capture of spaces of a building. In some embodiments, the method includes: scanning a corresponding space in the building by a scanning apparatus; capturing the corresponding space in a digital point cloud and/or by an image capture; performing an object recognition, based on the digital point cloud and/or the image capture, using means of artificial intelligence; mapping, after the object recognition is performed, the digital point cloud and/or the image capture in a digital building model; and in the case of the capture of defined objects in the building, capturing the respective defined object in a dedicated manner by the scanning apparatus. Attributes are allocated to the respective defined object by a voice input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventor: Christian Frey
  • Publication number: 20250086324
    Abstract: A method and arrangement for authenticating digital snapshots, wherein a digital snapshot is created by a capture device by a user using a first capture apparatus, wherein at the same time as the creation of the digital snapshot, a digital, in particular a digital-visual, identifier of the user is determined by a second capture apparatus, wherein the digital identifier of the user is overlaid into the digital snapshot and/or is added digitally, and wherein the digital snapshot containing the digital identifier of the user is stored in a machine-readable format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Siemens Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Christian Frey
  • Patent number: 12228088
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor controller for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, comprising a control unit for setting one or more control variables on the basis of one or more measured variables according to a stored control scheme; wherein the control unit is designed to modify the stored control scheme when the control unit is used as intended with the operational internal combustion engine, which is being controlled by the motor controller, according to a specified learning algorithm, namely using at least one feedback parameter which is associated with an optimization criterion and is provided to the control unit, in order to provide an improved control of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Jürgen Beyerer, Janina Stompe, Julius Pfrommer, Johannes Sailer, Christian Frey
  • Patent number: 12138134
    Abstract: A one-piece or multi-piece prosthesis blank for manufacturing a dental prosthesis. The blank is constructed from a gum-colored material and a tooth-colored material. It is characterized by being connected to each other at connecting surfaces, having an interface between the gum-colored and tooth-colored materials. This interface, when viewed along the connecting surfaces has an undulating shape and viewed in the vestibular direction has a radial shape. In order to finish the dental prosthesis, a CAD/CAM device determines the exact course of a gingival line, based on patient-specific data, and produces the prosthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Ronny Watzke, Christian Frei
  • Patent number: 12112099
    Abstract: A method and arrangement for dynamically updating and expanding a digital building model (BIM, digital twin) with respect to furniture information for rooms, wherein the recording of the seating configuration of a room takes place by means of a correspondingly configured recording device (e.g. mapping apparatus, NavVis apparatus, smartphone camera); wherein a mapping of the seating configuration of the room into a digital building model (BIM) takes place, wherein the recording of the seating configuration of the room and the mapping of the seating configuration of the room into the digital building model (BIM) takes place in a time-controlled or event-controlled manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Christian Frey, Peter Loeffler
  • Patent number: 12070255
    Abstract: A system for the amelioration of a recess (56) is disclosed, particularly of a recess in a porous, perforate material having cavities freed by the recess, said system comprising an element (2) for generating or coupling in mechanical energy, and a cylindrical collar (4, 40) having a central recess (44,45) for receiving a guide pin (8), wherein the guide pin (8), having a cannulation (35), is provided to be inserted substantially as far as the bottom of the recess (56) under positioning using a wire (52) before mechanical energy is applied, wherein the guide pin (8), in the area of the end thereof directed toward the bottom of the recess (56), is surrounded by an amelioration sleeve (7), wherein the external cylindrical jacket surface of the amelioration sleeve (7) has substantially the same external diameter as the collar (4, 40), and wherein the guide pin (8) is received movably in the central recess (44,45) such that, when mechanical energy is applied, the collar (4,40) can be moved relative to the guide pi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NEXILIS AG
    Inventors: Christian Frei, Simon Zimmermann, Falko Schlottig, Martin Horst
  • Patent number: 12063478
    Abstract: A customized in-ear hearing device includes a light source, photodetector, light emission window, and light transmission window. The light source and the photodetector together function as a physiological sensor by emitting light from the light source through the light emission to the skin of a user's ear canal, and detecting at the photodetector light reflected by the skin that passes through the light detection window. The light emission window and light detection window are located at a customized portion of the sidewall of the device that contacts the skin in the ear canal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONOVA AG
    Inventors: Konstantin Silberzahn, Markus Leuthold, Markus Müller, Christian Frei-Krumme
  • Patent number: 12028708
    Abstract: Method and system for authorizing the communication of a network node of a communication network, wherein the communication of the network node is only permitted if the network node receives an authorization after a completed NFC connection with a defined (certified) mobile communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Christian Frey, Hilmar Konrad
  • Patent number: 12026595
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a building object detection system for a building comprising: a scanner to generate scan data; an artificial intelligence module implemented on a processing unit trained to process the scan data to detect and automatically classify building objects installed within the space; a database to store different types of building objects and associated installation rules; and a verification unit to verify the classification of a building object based on compliance with the installation rules. The AI is trained using labeled training data comprising labels derived from scan data of previously scanned building objects provided with associated object identifiers. A second set of installation rules is loaded from the database based at least in part on a location of the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Christian Frey, Oliver Zechlin
  • Patent number: 12026434
    Abstract: A method for providing an updated digital building model is provided. The method includes the following steps: a) providing a digital building model for a physical building, b) ascertaining a virtually accessible area within the digital building model, c) capturing real data obtained by a number N of data sources, where N?1, wherein the real data include data from a real accessible area within the physical building that corresponds to the virtually accessible area, and d) updating the virtually accessible area within the digital building model by the captured real data of the real accessible area to provide the updated digital building model. This means that when there is a need to evacuate a physical building, there are updated virtually accessible areas present, and hence these can be taken as a basis for providing an updated evacuation plan for evacuating people.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Wolfram Klein, Christian Frey, Hermann Georg Mayer
  • Patent number: 12003926
    Abstract: An exemplary hearing system that is configured to assist a user in hearing includes an in-the-ear (ITE) component configured to fit at least partially within an ear canal of the user while the hearing system is worn by the user, a first sensor electrode provided on a surface of the ITE component and configured to contact, while the hearing system is worn by the user, outer ear tissue of the user, and a second sensor electrode configured to be located, while the hearing system is worn by the user, at an entrance to or outside of the ear canal of the user. The first sensor electrode and the second sensor electrode may be configured to be used to detect a physiological attribute of the user while the hearing system is worn by the user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Sonova AG
    Inventors: Konstantin Silberzahn, Markus Mueller, Natasha Thumm, Markus Leuthold, Christian Frei
  • Publication number: 20230417199
    Abstract: The invention relates to an engine control unit (1, 1?) for an internal combustion engine of a fleet vehicle (2, 2?) in a vehicle fleet with at least two fleet vehicles (2, 2?) with a control unit (3, 3), which is configured for setting control variables based on measured variables according to a control scheme stored in the engine control unit (1, 1?); and with a data interface unit (4, 4?), which is configured to transmit respective engine operating data sets to/from another engine control unit (1, 1?) of a respective drive internal combustion engine of at least one other fleet vehicle (2, 2?); wherein the control unit (3, 3?) is configured to set the control variables while considering at least one engine operating data set of the other engine control unit(s) (1, 1?) received via the data interface unit (4, 4?), in order to provide an improved control for the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Julius Pfrommer, Janina Stompe, Johannes Sailer, Jürgen Beyerer, Christian Frey
  • Publication number: 20230409764
    Abstract: An initial building model is read in and a creator indication about the creator thereof is extracted therefrom. The creator indication is taken as a basis for loading a creator-specific object pattern library in which a respective object pattern has an assigned building element data record. The respective object pattern is correlated with objects of the initial building model by a pattern recognition method. At the same time, an object correlating with the respective object pattern is assigned the building element data record assigned to this object pattern as an annotation. The initial building model and the assigned annotations are then taken as a basis for generating and outputting an annotated digital building model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Christian Frey, Wolfram Klein, Hermann Georg Mayer
  • Publication number: 20230366470
    Abstract: An exemplary seal arrangement includes a labyrinth seal (1). The seal is in operative engagement with a shaft (2) that extends in an opening (3) in a wall (4) bounding a riddlings hopper (13). The exemplary shaft moves along at least one radial direction on an orbital or eccentric path within the wall opening so as to suitably cause movement of at least one grate step of a firing grate. First seal discs (5) extend radially relative to the shaft axis and are in fixed operative connection with the shaft. Second seal discs (6) also extend radially and are in fixed operative connection with a seal housing (8) that is attached to the wall. Throughout shaft movement within the opening, first seal discs continuously extend intermediate and in radially overlapping relation with second seal discs, and second seal discs continuously extend intermediate and in radially overlapping relation with first seal discs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Johannes Ulrich Martin, Christian Frei
  • Patent number: 11809786
    Abstract: An initial building model is read in and a creator indication about the creator thereof is extracted therefrom. The creator indication is taken as a basis for loading a creator-specific object pattern library in which a respective object pattern has an assigned building element data record. The respective object pattern is correlated with objects of the initial building model by a pattern recognition method. At the same time, an object correlating with the respective object pattern is assigned the building element data record assigned to this object pattern as an annotation. The initial building model and the assigned annotations are then taken as a basis for generating and outputting an annotated digital building model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Christian Frey, Wolfram Klein, Hermann Georg Mayer
  • Patent number: 11792564
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hearing device comprising an earpiece provided with a vent configured to provide for a venting of sound waves between an inner region of the ear canal and an ambient environment outside the ear canal; the earpiece further comprising an acoustic valve including a valve member moveable relative to the vent between different positions and an actuator configured to provide an actuation force for a movement of the valve member such that an effective open cross-sectional area of the vent can be modified by the movement of the valve member; the hearing device further comprising an output transducer configured to be acoustically coupled to the inner region of the ear canal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sonova AG
    Inventors: Erwin Kuipers, Manuel Weibel, Christian Frei-Krumme, Maxi Susanne Moritz
  • Patent number: 11782174
    Abstract: A radiation detector (100) includes an insulating substrate (110), which includes a material that undergoes a change in an electrical property when subjected to ionizing radiation. A conductive film (112) is disposed in relation to a surface of the substrate. The conductive film (112) has a resistance that is a function of a state of the electrical property. A resistance measuring device measures resistance across the conductive film (112). The resistance measured by the resistance measuring device indicates an amount of ionizing radiation to which the substrate (110) has been subjected. In a method of determining exposure to a type of radiation, a boron nitride substrate is exposed to a radiation environment. A resistance is measured across a conductive film disposed in relation to the boron nitride substrate. Radiation exposure is calculated as a function of the resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Phillip Neal First, Zhigang Jiang, Thomas Michael Orlando, Elliot Christian Frey
  • Patent number: 11784448
    Abstract: The invention relates to a travel adapter, comprising a housing, at least one receptacle of a first standard and at least one plug of a second standard. The receptacle of the first standard has at least one first contact socket and one second contact socket. The plug of the second standard has at least one first contact pin and one second contact pin. The plug is arranged on the housing. The receptacle is rotatably mounted in the housing. The plug or the first contact pin and the second contact pin are pivotally arranged on the housing in such a way that the plug or the first contact pin and the second contact pin can be pivoted out of the housing. The invention also relates to a set and an additional travel adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: WorldConnect AG
    Inventors: Christian Frei, Remo Jud, Erich Hinderegger
  • Publication number: 20230301761
    Abstract: A one-piece or multi-piece prosthesis blank for manufacturing a dental prosthesis. The blank is constructed from a gum-colored material and a tooth-colored material. It is characterized by being connected to each other at connecting surfaces, having an interface between the gum-colored and tooth-colored materials. This interface, when viewed along the connecting surfaces has an undulating shape and viewed in the vestibular direction has a radial shape. In order to finish the dental prosthesis, a CAD/CAM device determines the exact course of a gingival line, based on patient-specific data, and produces the prosthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Ronny Watzke, Christian Frei
  • Patent number: D1036245
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: FISCHERWERKE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Christian Frey