Patents by Inventor Christopher Walters

Christopher Walters 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: 20220333818
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for heating a fluid that exhibits simplified manufacturing, a reduced construction size, and/or an increased heating efficiency. The heat exchanger has at least two distanced tube bodies through which a flow path of the fluid leads. A thin-film resistor is applied on the outer surface of at least one of the tube bodies with an interface made of a thermal interface material located between the thick-film resistor and the next neighboring tube body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan Bögershausen, Francisco González Espin, Torbjorn Hallberg, Christoph Walter, Robin Wanke
  • Patent number: 11393457
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using complex linear projection are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance. The method further includes generating frequency domain data using the audio data. The method further includes processing the frequency domain data using complex linear projection. The method further includes providing the processed frequency domain data to a neural network trained as an acoustic model. The method further includes generating a transcription for the utterance that is determined based at least on output that the neural network provides in response to receiving the processed frequency domain data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Bengio, Mirko Visontai, Christopher Walter George Thornton, Tara N. Sainath, Ehsan Variani, Izhak Shafran, Michiel A. u. Bacchiani
  • Publication number: 20220072046
    Abstract: The disclosed methods are generally directed to preventing, treating, suppressing, controlling or otherwise mitigating side effects of T-cell therapy, the T-cell therapy designed to accelerate immune reconstitution, induce a GVM effect, and/or target tumor cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Walter ALMA, Jeffrey BARTLETT, Louis Randall BRETON, Geoffrey Phillip SYMONDS, Ming YAN
  • Patent number: 11248705
    Abstract: A flexible seal is used to seal between two adjacent gas turbine components. The flexible seal includes at least one metal ply having a forward end, an aft end axially separated from the forward end, and an intermediate portion between the forward end and the aft end. The intermediate portion defines a continuous curve in the circumferential direction, such that the aft end is circumferentially, and optionally radially, offset from the forward end. A plurality of relief cuts is defined through the at least one metal ply between the forward end and the aft end to increase flexibility and improve sealing in seal slots that are radially offset from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Neelesh Nandkumar Sarawate, Christopher Walter Falcone
  • Patent number: 11213548
    Abstract: The disclosed methods are generally directed to preventing, treating, suppressing, controlling or otherwise mitigating side effects of T-cell therapy, the T-cell therapy designed to accelerate immune reconstitution, induce a GVM effect, and/or target tumor cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: CSL Behring Gene Therapy, Inc., CSL Gene Therapy Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher Walter Alma, Jeffrey Bartlett, Louis Randall Breton, Geoffrey Phillip Symonds, Ming Yan
  • Patent number: 11215063
    Abstract: Various embodiments include gas turbine seals and methods of forming such seals. In some cases, a turbine includes: a first arcuate component adjacent to a second arcuate component, each arcuate component including a slot including one or more slot segments located in an end face and a seal assembly disposed in the slot. The seal assembly including a plurality of seal segments forming at least one T-junction where a first seal segment intersects a second seal segment and at least one shim seal. The plurality of seal segments define at least one chute gap. The at least one shim seal disposed in a slot proximate the at least one T-junction of the plurality of seal segments. The at least one shim seal positioned on a sidewall of the second seal segment and extending a partial length of the sidewall. The at least one shim seal seals the at least one chute gap to prevent a flow therethrough of a gas turbine hot gas path flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Neelesh Nandkumar Sarawate, Christopher Walter Falcone
  • Publication number: 20210379964
    Abstract: An electric power converter device may include first and second housings separated by a fluid-impermeable plate, at least one power electronics unit electrically connected to an electric power input and output, at least one fluid chamber fluidically connected to a fluid inlet and outlet, and at least one heater electrically connected to the electric power input and output, the fluid chamber and heater thermally coupled such that waste heat generated by the power electronics unit may be used to heat a fluid flowing through the fluid chamber. The electric power converter device may have first and second operation modes, the waste heat being increased in the second operation mode. The first housing and the plate may form a first space area in which the power electronics unit and the heater may be arranged, and the plate and the second chamber form the fluid chamber with a second space area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Jose Antonio Castillo, Torbjorn Hallberg, Donato Jordan Herrero, Alfredo Perez, Christoph Walter
  • Patent number: 11183983
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described that include a differential amplifier driving an active load circuit, the active load circuit having a pair of load transistors and a high-frequency gain stage providing high frequency peaking for the active load circuit according to a frequency response characteristic determined in part by resistive values of a pair of active resistors connected, respectively, to gates of the pair of load transistors, and a bias circuit configured to stabilize the high frequency peaking of the high-frequency gain stage by generating a process-and-temperature variation (PVT)-dependent control voltage at gates of the active resistors to stabilize the resistive values of the pair of active resistors to account for PVT-dependent voltages at the gates of the pair of load transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.
    Inventors: Armin Tajalli, Christoph Walter
  • Publication number: 20210340563
    Abstract: The disclosed methods are generally directed to preventing, treating, suppressing, controlling or otherwise mitigating side effects of T-cell therapy, the T-cell therapy designed to accelerate immune reconstitution, induce a graft-versus-malignancy effect, and/or target tumor cells. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides expression vectors including a first expression control sequence operably linked to a first nucleic acid sequence, the first nucleic acid sequence encoding a shRNA to knockdown hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Geoffrey Phillip Symonds, Ming Yan, Chi-Lin Lee, Christopher Walter ALMA, Jeffrey S. Bartlett
  • Patent number: 11160198
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power electronic device for a vehicle. The power electronic device includes at least one intermediate unit having at least one fluid duct system fluidically connected to a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, at least one power electronic unit arranged at least at a surface of the at least one intermediate unit, and at least one heating device arranged at least at a surface of the at least one intermediate unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventors: Jens Bruckner, Jose Antonio Castillo, Francisco Gonzalez Espin, Manuel Klingler, Alfredo Perez, Christoph Walter
  • Publication number: 20210197218
    Abstract: A fluid atomizer and methods of atomizing fluids are disclosed. The fluid atomizer may comprise an inner member and one or more outer members. The inner member defines an interior conduit for providing a first-fluid flowpath from a supply end of the atomizer to a discharge end of the atomizer along a central axis. The one or more outer members are positioned radially outward of the inner member from the central axis. The inner and outer members define a second-fluid flowpath extending from a second-fluid supply conduit to a second-fluid discharge plenum. The second-fluid flowpath comprises a tangential conduit spiraling along the axis from the second-fluid supply conduit to a terminal end; an annulus downstream from and in fluid communication with the tangential conduit; and a second-fluid discharge plenum downstream from and in fluid communication with the annulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicants: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce plc
    Inventors: Neal Thomson, Christopher Walters
  • Patent number: 10991853
    Abstract: A carrier for an optoelectronic component includes a main body, wherein the main body includes a first electrically conductive heating layer arrangement, a first solder layer for soldering an optoelectronic component to the main body is arranged on a first side of the main body, the first electrically conductive heating layer arrangement is electrically insulated from the first solder layer and thermally connected to the first solder layer, and the first heating layer arrangement has an exposed portion on which molten solder of the first solder layer can flow to reduce an electrical resistance of the first heating layer arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Walter, Roland Enzmann, Markus Horn, Jan Seidenfaden
  • Publication number: 20210108528
    Abstract: Various embodiments include gas turbine seals and methods of forming such seals. In some cases, a turbine includes: a first arcuate component adjacent to a second arcuate component, each arcuate component including a slot including one or more slot segments located in an end face and a seal assembly disposed in the slot. The seal assembly including a plurality of seal segments forming at least one T-junction where a first seal segment intersects a second seal segment and at least one shim seal. The plurality of seal segments define at least one chute gap. The at least one shim seal disposed in a slot proximate the at least one T-junction of the plurality of seal segments. The at least one shim seal positioned on a sidewall of the second seal segment and extending a partial length of the sidewall. The at least one shim seal seals the at least one chute gap to prevent a flow therethrough of a gas turbine hot gas path flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Neelesh Nandkumar Sarawate, Christopher Walter Falcone
  • Patent number: 10967394
    Abstract: A fluid atomizer and methods of atomizing fluids are disclosed. The fluid atomizer may comprise an inner member and one or more outer members. The inner member defines an interior conduit for providing a first-fluid flowpath from a supply end of the atomizer to a discharge end of the atomizer along a central axis. The one or more outer members are positioned radially outward of the inner member from the central axis. The inner and outer members define a second-fluid flowpath extending from a second-fluid supply conduit to a second-fluid discharge plenum. The second-fluid flowpath comprises a tangential conduit spiraling along the axis from the second-fluid supply conduit to a terminal end; an annulus downstream from and in fluid communication with the tangential conduit; and a second-fluid discharge plenum downstream from and in fluid communication with the annulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce plc
    Inventors: Neal Thomson, Christopher Walters
  • Publication number: 20210069445
    Abstract: An adhesive strip that could be used for securing oral or nasal airway tubes, such as endotracheal tubes or laryngeal mask airways. The adhesive strip has an elongated shape and is coated on one side with an adhesive material. At each terminal end of the adhesive strip, there is a non-adhesive tab that is free of the adhesive material. The non-adhesive tabs facilitate removal of the adhesive strip off the release liner and/or off the patient's skin. The adhesive strip can be used by adhering onto the patient's face and wrapping it around the airway tube to secure the airway tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventor: Christopher Walters
  • Patent number: 10891487
    Abstract: The application relates to an appliance (1) for creating and monitoring a safety area (2) in a working space (3). The suggested appliance (1) comprises a recording device (4). The recording device (4) is configured to record images in a monitoring area (8) which encompasses the safety area (2). The appliance (1) further comprises an illumination device (5) which is configured to project lines or patterns which define the safety area (2), into the working space (3). Furthermore, the appliance (1) comprises an evaluation device (9) which is configured to evaluate the images which are recorded by the recording device (4), with respect to a violation of the safety area (2). The illumination device (5) is configured to project a temporally coded sequence (11, 11?, 11?, 11??, 11???) of the lines (6) or patterns into the working space (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Geselleschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
    Inventors: Norbert Elkmann, Christoph Walter, Christian Vogel
  • Patent number: 10857320
    Abstract: An adhesive strip that could be used for securing oral or nasal airway tubes, such as endotracheal tubes or laryngeal mask airways. The adhesive strip has an elongated shape and is coated on one side with an adhesive material. At each terminal end of the adhesive strip, there is a non-adhesive tab that is free of the adhesive material. The non-adhesive tabs facilitate removal of the adhesive strip off the release liner and/or off the patient's skin. The adhesive strip can be used by adhering onto the patient's face and wrapping it around the airway tube to secure the airway tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Christopher Walters
  • Publication number: 20200376615
    Abstract: A production method for producing a heat exchanger assembly, which may serve for at least one of cooling and heating a functional component via a heat exchanger fluid, may include first providing a duct flat body, which may have a flow duct comprising a clear flow cross section, through which heat exchanger fluid may be flowable. The method then may include forming the duct flat body as part of a rolling process or as part of a roller burnishing process to form a bent cylinder jacket-shaped heat exchanger housing. The method then may include arranging the bent heat exchanger housing on a jacket surface of the functional component, and fixing the heat exchanger housing on the jacket surface of the functional component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas Koenig, Dieter Reisinger, Erwin Skiba, Daniel Stehlik, Christoph Walter, Manuael Wehowski
  • Patent number: 10811582
    Abstract: An arrangement is disclosed. In an embodiment the arrangement includes at least one semiconductor component and a heat sink, wherein the semiconductor component is arranged on the heat sink, wherein the heat sink is configured to dissipate heat from the semiconductor component, wherein the heat sink comprises a thermally conductive material, and wherein the material comprises at least aluminum and silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Loeffler, Thomas Hager, Christoph Walter, Alfred Lell
  • Patent number: 10795662
    Abstract: System and methods are described for distributing artifacts in a cloud computing environment. Processing includes receiving an artifact at an upstream computing system in a network of computing systems, the artifact including a file of a continuous integration (CI) process, dividing the artifact into chunks, storing the chunks into a shared storage of the upstream computing system accessible by downstream computing systems of the network, determining downstream computing systems in the network to receive the artifact, receiving a request from one of the downstream computing systems for a chunk of the artifact; and providing the chunk to the downstream computing system from the shared storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Harshawardhan Shamsundar Gadgil, Brian Whitten, Christopher Walter Anderson