Patents by Inventor Christian KARL
Christian KARL 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: 11969357Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a system that includes an insertion tool and a drill guide. The insertion tool includes a body with a distal portion and a distal end. The body has a first engagement feature extending longitudinally along the distal portion and two arms extending longitudinally from the distal end of the body. The drill guide includes two bores and an open faced channel therebetween. The open faced channel includes a second engagement feature slidably engageable with the first engagement feature on the body of the insertion tool. The two bores are adapted for the disposal of a fastener driver tool therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: K2M, INC.Inventors: Christian Karl Schultz, Bryan D. Milz, Zinoviy Sosnov
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Patent number: 11964267Abstract: The invention relates to a distributor device, to a method for guiding materials, and to a method for cleaning a distributor device. The distributor device for guiding materials, in particular particulate pharmaceutical solids, comprises: a process chamber (2) having at least one inlet opening (3) and having at least two outlet openings (4), a distributor element (5) for distributing the materials, wherein the distributor element (5) extends through the process chamber (2) in order to connect the inlet opening (3) to one of the outlet openings (4), wherein the distributor element (5) is arranged rotatably about an axis of rotation (6), and a cleaning apparatus (7) which is configured to clean the process chamber (2) and the distributor element (5).Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Hüttlin GmbHInventors: Martin Gross, Christian Karl Paasche
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Publication number: 20240125620Abstract: A system and a method include a control unit configured to monitor one or more values of one or more aircraft at one or more airports, and compare the one or more values with one or more attributes of one or more airport maps associated with the one or more airports to determine accuracy of the one or more airport maps.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Christian Karl Pschierer, Andreas Sindlinger
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Publication number: 20240126273Abstract: A system and a method include a control unit including one or more processors configured to receive first data associated with expected movement of a vehicle system and second data associated with actual movement of the vehicle system. The control unit is configured to compare the first and second data to determine one or more differences between the first and second data. A responsive action is initiated by the control unit responsive to determining that the one or more differences are outside a designated threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Christian Karl Pschierer, Kyle Phillips
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Publication number: 20240091022Abstract: A spinal interbody device (IBD) includes a solid wall that at least partially defines a boundary of the IBD and a porous body connected to the solid wall. The porous body includes a plurality of sections that form at least a portion of both a superior and inferior bone interface side of the IBD. Each section of the porous body has a different porosity than an adjacent section such that the porosities increase toward a center of the IBD.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Collin Newman, Christian Karl Schultz, Steven Willis, Amir Ali Sharifi-Mehr, Oliver Buchert, Christopher P. Bell, Andrew Edward Ehlers, Anna Reza, Marc Gilles Long, Joseph Henry Robinson
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Publication number: 20240084375Abstract: In one embodiment, a method and system normalize a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification process for a plurality of samples containing DNA. Cycle data for performing the PCR amplification process is identified for the plurality of samples. The cycle data includes a corresponding cycle count for each sample of the plurality of samples. The plurality of samples is sorted into a plurality of bins based on the cycle data such that cycle count variation between bins of the plurality of bins is reduced. A bin cycle count is assigned to each bin of the plurality of bins. The bin cycle count is unique to each bin of the plurality of bins. Identification information is generated for the bins. An output for performing a PCR amplification of the plurality of samples is generated using the bins and the bin cycle count for each bin of the plurality of bins.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Christian N. Cunningham, Kenneth Karl Hallenbeck
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Publication number: 20240075520Abstract: An ingot mould for continuous casting, with a lubricant channel (2) opening to the running surface (1), has a distribution portion (3) adjoining the running surface (1). In an ingot mould of the aforementioned type a uniform lubrication of the running surface of the ingot mould is possible using as few wear-susceptible components as possible, where the flow resistance within the distribution portion (3) increases in the direction of the running surface (1) and is constant in a discharge region (4) of the distribution portion (3) adjoining the running surface parallel to the running surface (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventor: Christian Karl Fellsner
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Publication number: 20240073796Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a preprocessing circuit configured to obtain context information related to a user location, a learning circuit configured to determine a predicted user movement based on context information related to a user location to obtain a predicted route and to determine predicted radio conditions along the predicted route, and a decision circuit configured to, based on the predicted radio conditions, identify one or more first areas expected to have a first type of radio conditions and one or more second areas expected to have a second type of radio conditions different from the first type of radio conditions and to control radio activity while traveling on the predicted route according to the one or more first areas and the one or more second areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Shahrnaz AZIZI, Biljana BADIC, John BROWNE, Dave CAVALCANTI, Hyung-Nam CHOI, Thorsten CLEVORN, Ajay GUPTA, Maruti GUPTA HYDE, Ralph HASHOLZNER, Nageen HIMAYAT, Simon HUNT, Ingolf KARLS, Thomas KENNEY, Yiting LIAO, Christopher MACNAMARA, Marta MARTINEZ TARRADELL, Markus Dominik MUECK, Venkatesan NALLAMPATTI EKAMBARAM, Niall POWER, Bernhard RAAF, Reinhold SCHNEIDER, Ashish SINGH, Sarabjot SINGH, Srikathyayani SRIKANTESWARA, Shilpa TALWAR, Feng XUE, Zhibin YU, Robert ZAUS, Stefan FRANZ, Uwe KLIEMANN, Christian DREWES, Juergen KREUCHAUF
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Patent number: 11857430Abstract: A spinal interbody device (IBD) includes a solid wall that at least partially defines a boundary of the IBD and a porous body connected to the solid wall. The porous body includes a plurality of sections that form at least a portion of both a superior and inferior bone interface side of the IBD. Each section of the porous body has a different porosity than an adjacent section such that the porosities increase toward a center of the IBD.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLCInventors: Collin Newman, Christian Karl Schultz, Steven Willis, Amir Ali Sharifi-Mehr, Oliver Buchert, Christopher P. Bell, Andrew Edward Ehlers, Anna Reza, Marc Gilles Long, Joseph Henry Robinson
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Publication number: 20230380983Abstract: A spinal interbody implant includes an outer shell, a fill material disposed within the outer shell and a plurality of tubes extending from a first outer surface of the implant to a second outer surface of the implant through the fill material. The fill material is more porous than the outer shell and the plurality of tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Sean Corcoran, Keith Fava, Kenneth Dieselman, Jennifer Anne Moore, Amir Ali Sharifi-Mehr, Christopher P. Bell, Steven Willis, Russell Simms, Justyna Zielinska, Christian Karl Schultz, Clint Boyd, Eleftherios Louvis, Leonid Pavlovsky, Joseph Henry Robinson
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Publication number: 20230285162Abstract: Disclosed herein is a spinal implant with a solid frame and a porous inner layer. The implant may have a cavity defined by the porous inner layer. The solid frame may have one or more ribs extending from a medial wall to a lateral wall. The thickness of the porous layer may vary relative the thickness of the solid frame at various locations. An inserter to place a spinal implant and a method to perform same are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Bryan D. Milz, Thomas A. Alheidt, Jessica Centrangol, Christian Karl Schultz, Jason H. Steinke, Steven Willis, Robert Cipoletti, Charles L. Bush, JR., Brad Juchno
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Publication number: 20230190491Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a system that includes an insertion tool and a drill guide. The insertion tool includes a body with a distal portion and a distal end. The body has a first engagement feature extending longitudinally along the distal portion and two arms extending longitudinally from the distal end of the body. The drill guide includes two bores and an open faced channel therebetween. The open faced channel includes a second engagement feature slidably engageable with the first engagement feature on the body of the insertion tool. The two bores are adapted for the disposal of a fastener driver tool therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: K2M, INC.Inventors: Christian Karl Schultz, Bryan D. Milz, Zinoviy Sosnov
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Patent number: 11656662Abstract: Embodiments herein may present an integrated circuit or a computing system having an integrated circuit, where the integrated circuit includes a physical network layer, a physical computing layer, and a physical memory layer, each having a set of dies, and a die including multiple tiles. The physical network layer further includes one or more signal pathways dynamically configurable between multiple pre-defined interconnect topologies for the multiple tiles, where each topology of the multiple pre-defined interconnect topologies corresponds to a communication pattern related to a workload. At least a tile in the physical computing layer is further arranged to move data to another tile in the physical computing layer or a storage cell of the physical memory layer through the one or more signal pathways in the physical network layer. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Simon C. Steely, Jr., Richard Dischler, David Bach, Olivier Franza, William J. Butera, Christian Karl, Benjamin Keen, Brian Leung
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Patent number: 11639127Abstract: A vehicle seat arrangement, a control device in the seat arrangement, and a method for activating a plurality of massage units integrated in a vehicle seat, including the following steps: playing back an acoustic entertainment signal by means of a playback device of a vehicle; and controlling the plurality of massage units based on the acoustic entertainment signal by means of the control device; in which at least one of the plurality of massage units is activated so as to vibrate in a frequency range, in which the at least one of the plurality of massage units only brings about noise emission which is externally imperceptible to a person other than a person sitting on the vehicle seat.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG (Coburg)Inventors: Christian Mergl, Wojciech Falinski, Christian Karl, Martin Juergenliemk, Wolfgang Uebel, Christian Herrmann, Florian Pohl
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Patent number: 11622867Abstract: Disclosed herein is a spinal implant with a solid frame and a porous inner layer. The implant may have a cavity defined by the porous inner layer. The solid frame may have one or more ribs extending from a medial wall to a lateral wall. The thickness of the porous layer may vary relative the thickness of the solid frame at various locations. An inserter to place a spinal implant and a method to perform same are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLCInventors: Bryan D. Milz, Thomas A. Alheidt, Jessica Cetrangol, Christian Karl Schultz, Jason Steinke, Steven Willis, Robert Cipoletti, Charles L. Bush, Jr., Brad Juchno
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Patent number: 11617659Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a system that includes an insertion tool and a drill guide. The insertion tool includes a body with a distal portion and a distal end. The body has a first engagement feature extending longitudinally along the distal portion and two arms extending longitudinally from the distal end of the body. The drill guide includes two bores and an open faced channel therebetween. The open faced channel includes a second engagement feature slidably engageable with the first engagement feature on the body of the insertion tool. The two bores are adapted for the disposal of a fastener driver tool therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: K2M, Inc.Inventors: Christian Karl Schultz, Bryan D. Milz, Zinoviy Sosnov
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Publication number: 20220409399Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a system that includes an insertion tool and a drill guide. The insertion tool includes a body with a distal portion and a distal end. The body has a first engagement feature extending longitudinally along the distal portion and two arms extending longitudinally from the distal end of the body. The drill guide includes two bores and an open faced channel therebetween. The open faced channel includes a second engagement feature slidably engageable with the first engagement feature on the body of the insertion tool. The two bores are adapted for the disposal of a fastener driver tool therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Christian Karl Schultz, Bryan D. Milz, Zinoviy Sosnov
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Publication number: 20220387192Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a system that includes an insertion tool and a drill guide. The insertion tool includes a body with a distal portion and a distal end. The body has a first engagement feature extending longitudinally along the distal portion and two arms extending longitudinally from the distal end of the body. The drill guide includes two bores and an open faced channel therebetween. The open faced channel includes a second engagement feature slidably engageable with the first engagement feature on the body of the insertion tool. The two bores are adapted for the disposal of a fastener driver tool therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Christian Karl Schultz, Bryan D. Milz, Zinoviy Sosnov
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Patent number: 11478762Abstract: A production module for producing solid medicaments in individual batches, comprising a supplying device for supplying powdered starting materials, a mixing device connected to the feeding device and is intended for working the supplied powdered starting materials into a product, a final working device connected to the mixing device and is intended for the final production of an end product from the worked starting materials, and a control device for automatically controlling the supplying device and the mixing device and the final working device. Diverters allow a batch to be passed on from the supplying device to the mixing device and from the mixing device to the final working device without any backmixing. Data of all the process sensors and quality sensors of the production module are linked with the respective batch by the control device such that tracking and tracing of the batches is made possible.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: HÜTTLIN GMBHInventors: Christian Gebauer, Marc Michaelis, Christian Karl Paasche, Matthias Boerner, Syed Muhammad Mushahid Azher
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Patent number: 11471284Abstract: A prosthesis for spinal surgery includes a spacer adapted to be secured into the bone and attached to one of a plurality of configuration plates. The configuration plates are interchangeable and each one is configured to utilize a different combination of bone screws, anchors or both. The prosthesis may further include a retaining mechanism to prevent bone screws and/or anchors from backing out.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLCInventors: Christian Karl Schultz, Jason H. Steinke, Steven Willis, Justyna Zielinska