Patents by Inventor Christian Martin
Christian Martin 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: 12365570Abstract: Transporting loads is a fundamental component of intralogistics. Autonomous industrial trucks can be used for this. The autonomous industrial truck claimed according to the invention is able, by means of the implemented navigation, load receiving and load placing methods, to ensure efficient transporting of loads. The invention relates to an autonomous industrial truck having a rearwardly-directed sensor unit for detecting the load and the loading environment and implemented process sequences for approaching the load, receiving the load and placing the load.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: MetraLabs GmbH Neue Technologien und SystemeInventors: Stefan Ulbrich, Andreas Bley, Erik Wolf, Benjamin Fischer, Christian Martin, Johannes Trabert, Ahmed I Syleiman, Christian Sternitzke
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Patent number: 12357006Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of alpha lipoic acid as feed additive for aquatic animals including fish and shrimp, especially for cold water fish as for example salmon, bream, bass and for warm water fish as for example carp, tilapia, catfish. More particular, this invention relates to the use of alpha lipoic acid for the improvement of the feed conversion ratio and/or daily weight gain in fish, for reducing mortality by regulating the micro flora of the gut and/or by protecting the animal against infections caused by pathogenic viruses.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Elisabeth Aasum, Ralph Bickerdike, David Christian Martin, Viviane Verlhac
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Publication number: 20250218221Abstract: A system and a method for capturing a movement pattern of a person. The method comprises capturing a plurality of images of the person executing a movement pattern using a non-contact sensor, the plurality of images representing the movements of the body elements of the person, generating at least one skeleton model having limb positions for at least some of the plurality of images, and calculating the movement pattern from the movements of the body elements of the person by comparing changes in the limb positions in the at least one skeleton model generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2025Publication date: July 3, 2025Applicant: TEDIRO Healthcare Robotics GmbHInventors: Horst-Michael Groß, Andrea Scheidig, Thanh Quang Trinh, Benjamin Schütz, Alexander Vorndran, Andreas Bley, Anke Mayfarth, Robert Arenknecht, Johannes Trabert, Christian Martin, Christian Sternitzke
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Patent number: 12178601Abstract: The present invention provides a method of conducting a sleep analysis by collecting physiologic and kinetic data from a subject, preferably via a wireless in-home data acquisition system, while the subject attempts to sleep at home. The sleep analysis, including clinical and research sleep studies and cardiorespiratory studies, can be used in the diagnosis of sleeping disorders and other diseases or conditions with sleep signatures, such as Parkinson's, epilepsy, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or other neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, or muscular disorders. The method of the present invention can also be used to determine if environmental factors at the subject's home are preventing restorative sleep.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Cleveland Medical Devices IncInventors: Hani Kayyali, Craig A. Frederick, Christian Martin, Robert N. Schmidt, Brian Kolkowski
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Patent number: 12018360Abstract: A method for producing an Al—Cr—O-based coating on a workpiece surface, including: a) placing a workpiece in an interior of a vacuum chamber, and b) depositing a film comprising aluminum and chromium on the workpiece surface to be coated, wherein a ratio of aluminum to chromium in the film in atomic percentage has a first value corresponding to Al/Cr?2.3, and c) forming volatile compounds of Cr—O, thereby causing at least part of the chromium contained in the film to leave the film in a form of Cr—O volatile compounds, and d) executing step c) during a period of time, within which the chromium content in the film is reduced until attaining a second value of the ratio of aluminum to chromium in the film in atomic percentage corresponding to Al/Cr?3.5, thereby the film is transformed into a film containing a reduced content of chromium.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, PfäffikonInventors: Robert Raab, Christian Martin Koller, Paul Heinz Mayrhofer, Mirjam Arndt, Juergen Ramm
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Patent number: 11930832Abstract: The invention concerns a method of sustainably producing an aquaculture meat product by feeding a fish over its dietary cycles an aquaculture feed composition, said method comprising the step of formulating an aquaculture feed composition by replacing all or part of fish oil in the composition with a single microbial source of eicosapentaenoic acid (“EPA”) and docosahex-aenoic acid (“DHA”). In a preferred embodiment, the microbial source comprising DHA and EPA derives from a microorganism/microbe of the genus Schizochytrium or Thraustochytrium.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Christian Martin, Ester Santigosa, Vivien Verlhac
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Publication number: 20240067510Abstract: Transporting loads is a fundamental component of intralogistics. Autonomous industrial trucks can be used for this. The autonomous industrial truck claimed according to the invention is able, by means of the implemented navigation, load receiving and load placing methods, to ensure efficient transporting of loads. The invention relates to an autonomous industrial truck having a rearwardly-directed sensor unit for detecting the load and the loading environment and implemented process sequences for approaching the load, receiving the load and placing the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2020Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Stefan Ulbrich, Andreas Bley, Erik Wolf, Benjamin Fischer, Christian Martin, Johannes Trabert, Ahmed I Syleiman, Christian Sternitzke
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Patent number: 11883189Abstract: The present invention provides a method of conducting a sleep analysis by collecting physiologic and kinetic data from a subject, preferably via a wireless in-home data acquisition system, while the subject attempts to sleep at home. The sleep analysis, including clinical and research sleep studies and cardiorespiratory studies, can be used in the diagnosis of sleeping disorders and other diseases or conditions with sleep signatures, such as Parkinson's, epilepsy, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or other neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, or muscular disorders. The method of the present invention can also be used to determine if environmental factors at the subject's home are preventing restorative sleep.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Cleveland Medical Devices Inc.Inventors: Hani Kayyali, Craig A. Frederick, Christian Martin, Robert N. Schmidt, Brian Kolkowski
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Publication number: 20240011796Abstract: A display system of an aircraft includes a display device defining a display area, a vision system for generating an image of an operating environment of the aircraft on the display area, data processors operatively coupled to the display device and the vision system, and non-transitory machine-readable memory operatively coupled to the one or more data processors and storing instructions executable by the one or more processors and configured to cause the one or more processors to, when a condition of the aircraft is met, cause an alteration of a display of flight information on the display area to declutter a cutout region in the image generated by the vision system, the cutout region devoid of imaging generated by the vision system and displaying an Approach Lighting System (ALS) of a runway of intended landing for the aircraft.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Christian MARTIN, Christopher MARTIN, Jason NAIPAUL, Nami BAE, Mark SCHLEGEL, William Murray COLQUHOUN, Anthony J. BARBER, Natalie WONG
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Patent number: 11802780Abstract: A display system of an aircraft includes a display device defining a display area, a vision system for generating an image of an operating environment of the aircraft on the display area, data processors operatively coupled to the display device and the vision system, and non-transitory machine-readable memory operatively coupled to the one or more data processors and storing instructions executable by the one or more processors and configured to cause the one or more processors to, when a condition of the aircraft is met, cause an alteration of a display of flight information on the display area to declutter a cutout region in the image generated by the vision system, the cutout region devoid of imaging generated by the vision system and displaying an Approach Lighting System (ALS) of a runway of intended landing for the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.Inventors: Christian Martin, Christopher Martin, Jason Naipaul, Nami Bae, Mark Schlegel, William Murray Colquhoun, Anthony J. Barber, Natalie Wong
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Patent number: 11730422Abstract: The present invention provides a method of conducting a sleep analysis by collecting physiologic and kinetic data from a subject, preferably via a wireless in-home data acquisition system, while the subject attempts to sleep at home. The sleep analysis, including clinical and research sleep studies and cardiorespiratory studies, can be used in the diagnosis of sleeping disorders and other diseases or conditions with sleep signatures, such as Parkinson's, epilepsy, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or other neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, or muscular disorders. The method of the present invention can also be used to determine if environmental factors at the subject's home are preventing restorative sleep.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Cleveland Medical Devices Inc.Inventors: Hani Kayyali, Craig A. Frederick, Christian Martin, Robert N. Schmidt, Brian Kolkowski
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Publication number: 20230212733Abstract: A method for producing an Al—Cr—O-based coating on a workpiece surface, including: a) placing a workpiece in an interior of a vacuum chamber, and b) depositing a film comprising aluminum and chromium on the workpiece surface to be coated, wherein a ratio of aluminum to chromium in the film in atomic percentage has a first value corresponding to Al/Cr?2.3, and c) forming volatile compounds of Cr—O, thereby causing at least part of the chromium contained in the film to leave the film in a form of Cr—O volatile compounds, and d) executing step c) during a period of time, within which the chromium content in the film is reduced until attaining a second value of the ratio of aluminum to chromium in the film in atomic percentage corresponding to Al/Cr?3.5, thereby the film is transformed into a film containing a reduced content of chromium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2022Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Robert RAAB, Christian Martin KOLLER, Paul Heinz MAYRHOFER, Mirjam ARNDT, Juergen RAMM
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Patent number: 11602305Abstract: The present invention provides a method of conducting a sleep analysis by collecting physiologic and kinetic data from a subject, preferably via a wireless in-home data acquisition system, while the subject attempts to sleep at home. The sleep analysis, including clinical and research sleep studies and cardiorespiratory studies, can be used in the diagnosis of sleeping disorders and other diseases or conditions with sleep signatures, such as Parkinson's, epilepsy, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or other neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, or muscular disorders. The method of the present invention can also be used to determine if environmental factors at the subject's home are preventing restorative sleep.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Cleveland Medical Devices Inc.Inventors: Hani Kayyali, Craig A. Frederick, Christian Martin, Robert N. Schmidt, Brian Kolkowski
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Patent number: 11560618Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a multilayer film comprising aluminum, chromium, oxygen and nitrogen, in a vacuum coating chamber, the multilayer film comprising layers of type A and layers of type B deposited alternate one of each other, wherein during deposition of the multilayer film at least one target comprising aluminum and chromium is operated as cathode by means of a PVD technique and used in this manner as material source for supplying aluminum and chromium, and an oxygen gas flow and a nitrogen gas flow are introduced as reactive gases in the vacuum chamber for reacting with aluminum and chromium, thereby supplying oxygen and nitrogen for forming the multilayer film, characterized in that: —The A layers are deposited as oxynitride layers of Al—Cr—O—N by using nitrogen and oxygen as reactive gas at the same time, —The B layers are deposited as nitride layers of Al—Cr—N by reducing the oxygen gas flow and by increasing the nitrogen gas flow in order to use only nitrogen as reacType: GrantFiled: November 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, PfäffikonInventors: Robert Raab, Christian Martin Koller, Paul Heinz Mayrhofer, Mirjam Arndt, Jürgen Ramm
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Patent number: 11478188Abstract: The present invention provides a method of conducting a sleep analysis by collecting physiologic and kinetic data from a subject, preferably via a wireless in-home data acquisition system, while the subject attempts to sleep at home. The sleep analysis, including clinical and research sleep studies and cardiorespiratory studies, can be used in the diagnosis of sleeping disorders and other diseases or conditions with sleep signatures, such as Parkinson's, epilepsy, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or other neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, or muscular disorders. The method of the present invention can also be used to determine if environmental factors at the subject's home are preventing restorative sleep.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Cleveland Medical Devices Inc.Inventors: Hani Kayyali, Craig A. Frederick, Christian Martin, Robert N. Schmidt, Brian Kolkowski
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Patent number: 11382562Abstract: The present invention provides a method of conducting a sleep analysis by collecting physiologic and kinetic data from a subject, preferably via a wireless in-home data acquisition system, while the subject attempts to sleep at home. The sleep analysis, including clinical and research sleep studies and cardiorespiratory studies, can be used in the diagnosis of sleeping disorders and other diseases or conditions with sleep signatures, such as Parkinson's, epilepsy, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or other neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, or muscular disorders. The method of the present invention can also be used to determine if environmental factors at the subject's home are preventing restorative sleep.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Cleveland Medical Devices Inc.Inventors: Hani Kayyali, Craig A. Frederick, Christian Martin, Robert N. Schmidt, Brian Kolkowski
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Publication number: 20220125638Abstract: Devices can be implanted in an eye to treat glaucoma and/or dry eye. The devices described herein include a body defining a lumen and having first and second ends and external and lumenal surfaces. The body has a length sufficient to provide fluid communication between the anterior chamber and tear film of the eye through the lumen when the device is implanted in the sclera. The body can include a radiused distal edge. A distal end portion of the body can be laterally flared. The body can include a mid-body portion that is laterally narrower than distal and proximal end portions of the body. Methods of treating glaucoma and/or dry eye, wherein the device is implanted in the sclera of an afflicted eye, are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: J. David Brown, Christopher Clark Pulling, Roy Christian Martin, Edward Aaron Cohen
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Publication number: 20220108561Abstract: A system and a method for capturing a movement pattern of a person. The method comprises capturing a plurality of images of the person executing a movement pattern by means of a non-contact sensor, the plurality of images representing the movements of the body elements of the person, generating at least one skeleton model having limb positions for at least some of the plurality of images, and calculating the movement pattern from the movements of the body elements of the person by comparing changes in the limb positions in the at least one skeleton model generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2020Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Horst-Michael Groß, Andrea Scheidig, Thanh Quang Trinh, Benjamin Schütz, Alexander Vorndran, Andreas Bley, Anke Mayfarth, Robert Arenknecht, Johannes Trabert, Christian Martin, Christian Sternitzke
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Patent number: 11291391Abstract: Monitoring glucose concentration in aqueous humor can include inserting an implantable device into an eye and determining glucose concentration as a function of glucose sensed at the implantable device. In some implantable device embodiments, the device includes a polymer layer comprising a material that changes volume in response to varying glucose concentrations of the aqueous humor. A pressure sensor in the device can detect the changes in volume. In some implantable device embodiments, the device includes electrodes for determining the glucose concentration.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: MicroOptx Inc.Inventors: Edward Aaron Cohen, Roy Christian Martin
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Patent number: 11234637Abstract: The present invention provides a method of conducting a sleep analysis by collecting physiologic and kinetic data from a subject, preferably via a wireless in-home data acquisition system, while the subject attempts to sleep at home. The sleep analysis, including clinical and research sleep studies and cardiorespiratory studies, can be used in the diagnosis of sleeping disorders and other diseases or conditions with sleep signatures, such as Parkinson's, epilepsy, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or other neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, or muscular disorders. The method of the present invention can also be used to determine if environmental factors at the subject's home are preventing restorative sleep.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Cleveland Medical Devices Inc.Inventors: Hani Kayyali, Craig A. Frederick, Christian Martin, Robert N. Schmidt, Brian Kolkowski