Patents by Inventor Christopher Weiss

Christopher Weiss 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: 20250085697
    Abstract: A data interface device for updating control programs of a control device of a numerically controlled machine tool, comprising a first interface module configured for data transmission with a control program database, and a second interface module configured for data transmission with one or more control devices. The data interface device is configured to receive an update data record from the control program database via the first interface module and to transmit a configuration data record to a control device via the second interface module, said configuration data record causing said control device to update a control program stored in a memory unit of the control device on the basis of the transmitted configuration data record. The data interface device is configured for updating control programs of at least two different control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Henrik PULS, Stefan AMES, Christoph WEISS
  • Patent number: 11971013
    Abstract: Provided is a tool arrangement for unloading a tower or a tower segment from a transportation vehicle and/or for storing the tower or the tower segment, including a bottom tool device with an attachment to removably attach the bottom tool device to a bottom mounting section of the tower or the tower segment, wherein the tool arrangement further includes a top tool device with an attachment to removably attach the top tool device to a top mounting section of the tower or the tower segment, wherein the bottom tool device and the top tool device each include a lift to lift the tower or the tower segment, when the tower or the tower segment is in a non-erected position and attached to the respective tool device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventor: Christopher Weiss
  • Patent number: 11954706
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an online platform for out of home advertising. The online platform may allow various advertisers to search for advertising panels (e.g., digital billboards), select available time periods for an advertising panel, upload an advertisement (“ad”), and have the ad displayed on the advertising panel. An advertiser can search for advertising panels using one or more search parameters (e.g., geographical location and demography of target audience). The online platform may also allow advertising panel owners to publish their advertising panels, manage availability, and approve or reject ads for display. The online platform may generate reports relating to the advertising panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ADOMNI INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Gudai, Jonathan Fine, Robert Stockham, Christopher Weiss, Eric Medlin
  • Patent number: 11713586
    Abstract: Provided is a tool arrangement for pivoting a tower or a tower segment from a non-erected position to an erected position, including a bottom tool device with a first device section with an attachment to removably attach the first device section to a bottom mounting section, and with a second device section adapted to be arranged on the ground and being attachable or attached to the first device section, wherein the bottom tool device includes a pivot axis at least when the first and the second device sections are attached to each other, wherein the tower or the tower segment, when fixed to the bottom tool device, is pivotable around the pivot axis when being erected, wherein, when the tower or the tower segment is fixed to the bottom tool device, the pivot axis is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tower or the tower segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventor: Christopher Weiss
  • Publication number: 20230196407
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an online platform for out of home advertising. The online platform may allow various advertisers to search for advertising panels (e.g., digital billboards), select available time periods for an advertising panel, upload an advertisement (“ad”), and have the ad displayed on the advertising panel. An advertiser can search for advertising panels using one or more search parameters (e.g., geographical location and demography of target audience). The online platform may also allow advertising panel owners to publish their advertising panels, manage availability, and approve or reject ads for display. The online platform may generate reports relating to the advertising panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan Gudai, Jonathan Fine, Robert Stockham, Christopher Weiss, Eric Medlin
  • Publication number: 20230054278
    Abstract: A method for determining a minimum width of a microjoint by which, when machining a workpiece, in particular a sheet-like workpiece, a workpiece part remains connected to a remaining workpiece of the workpiece. In the method, the minimum width of the microjoint is determined in dependence on at least one machining parameter which influences a relative position of the workpiece part in relation to the remaining workpiece during the machining of the workpiece. A further method determines an attachment position of such a microjoint and a still further method machines the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Florian Sepp, Simon Ockenfuss, Patrick Mach, Kai Etzel, Christoph Weiss
  • Patent number: 11514474
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an online platform for out of home advertising. The online platform may allow various advertisers to search for advertising panels (e.g., digital billboards), select available time periods for an advertising panel, upload an advertisement (“ad”), and have the ad displayed on the advertising panel. An advertiser can search for advertising panels using one or more search parameters (e.g., geographical location and demography of target audience). The online platform may also allow advertising panel owners to publish their advertising panels, manage availability, and approve or reject ads for display. The online platform may generate reports relating to the advertising panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Adomni Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Gudai, Jonathan Fine, Robert Stockham, Christopher Weiss, Eric Medlin
  • Publication number: 20220235741
    Abstract: Provided is a tool arrangement for unloading a tower or a tower segment from a transportation vehicle and/or for storing the tower or the tower segment, including a bottom tool device with an attachment to removably attach the bottom tool device to a bottom mounting section of the tower or the tower segment, wherein the tool arrangement further includes a top tool device with an attachment to removably attach the top tool device to a top mounting section of the tower or the tower segment, wherein the bottom tool device and the top tool device each include a lift to lift the tower or the tower segment, when the tower or the tower segment is in a non-erected position and attached to the respective tool device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher Weiss
  • Publication number: 20220205269
    Abstract: Provided is a tool arrangement for pivoting a tower or a tower segment from a non-erected position to an erected position, including a bottom tool device with a first device section with an attachment to removably attach the first device section to a bottom mounting section, and with a second device section adapted to be arranged on the ground and being attachable or attached to the first device section, wherein the bottom tool device includes a pivot axis at least when the first and the second device sections are attached to each other, wherein the tower or the tower segment, when fixed to the bottom tool device, is pivotable around the pivot axis when being erected, wherein, when the tower or the tower segment is fixed to the bottom tool device, the pivot axis is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tower or the tower segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher Weiss
  • Publication number: 20220152744
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for beam processing of plate-shaped or tubular workpieces are provided. In one aspect, a method includes: generating at least one section of a cutting gap cutting through the workpiece along a cutting line corresponding to at least part of a contour of a workpiece part to be produced from the workpiece by a processing beam, and performing at least one non-joining and non-cutting finishing treatment of the workpiece with a partially cut-out workpiece part at least in one section of at least one finishing zone by the processing beam, the finishing zone extending along the cutting line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Florian Sepp, Christoph Weiss
  • Publication number: 20220055149
    Abstract: Methods, devices, apparatus, and systems are described for separating workpiece parts from workpieces using a focused machining beam. The methods include creating a trough in the workpiece using the focused machining beam, the trough being created along at least one section of a contour of the at least one workpiece part to be separated from the workpiece, altering a focal position of the machining beam such that the machining beam has a smaller beam diameter on the workpiece, and creating a gap in the workpiece using the machining beam with the altered focal position along at least one section of the contour of the at least one workpiece part to be separated from the workpiece. The gap is created at least partially within the trough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Christoph Weiss, Florian Sepp
  • Publication number: 20210379699
    Abstract: Processes, devices, and systems for beam processing of plate-shaped or tubular workpieces are provided. The processes include: a) carrying out at least one cutting procedure for producing a cutting gap along a cutting line that extends at least partially along a contour of a workpiece part to be produced from the workpiece, and b) carrying out at least one finishing procedure for finishing the workpiece along at least one part of the cutting gap, during which the workpiece part is not completely cut out. The cutting procedure includes moving a beam head for guiding a processing beam above the workpiece along the cutting line from a first cutting position to a second cutting position. The finishing procedure includes moving the beam head over the workpiece, and the processing beam is guided along a finishing line from a first finishing position to a second finishing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Florian Sepp, Christoph Weiss
  • Patent number: 11004963
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a method of manufacturing an insulated gate bipolar transistor in a semiconductor body. A first field stop zone portion of a first conductivity type is formed on a semiconductor substrate. A second field stop zone portion of the first conductivity type is formed on the first field stop zone portion. A drift zone of the first conductivity type is formed on the second field stop zone portion. A doping concentration in the drift zone is smaller than 1013 cm?3 along a vertical extension of more than 30% of a thickness of the semiconductor body upon completion of the insulated gate bipolar transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Oana Julia Spulber, Matthias Kuenle, Wolfgang Roesner, Christian Philipp Sandow, Christoph Weiss
  • Patent number: 10957764
    Abstract: A semiconductor body includes first and second opposing surfaces, an edge extending in a vertical direction substantially perpendicular to the first surface, an active area, a peripheral area arranged in a horizontal direction substantially parallel to the first surface between the active area and edge, and a pn-junction extending from the active area into the peripheral area. In the peripheral area the semiconductor device further includes a first conductive region arranged next to the first surface, a second conductive region arranged next to the first surface, and arranged in the horizontal direction between the first conductive region and edge, and a passivation structure including a first portion at least partly covering the first conductive region, a second portion at least partly covering the second conductive region. The first portion has a different layer composition than the second portion and/or a thickness which differs from the thickness of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Franz Josef Niedernostheide, Manfred Pfaffenlehner, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Holger Schulze, Frank Umbach, Christoph Weiss
  • Publication number: 20200156548
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted reconfigurable storage tray removably installed between two fixed storage cabinet walls in either a tray position or a shelf position. The storage tray includes right and left side panels and a bottom panel that has a tray surface on one side and a shelf surface on the other side. Mounting mechanisms are attached to each side panel, allowing the storage tray to be removably mounted on the inner walls of a storage cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: The Knapheide Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Christopher Weiss, Justin Steele, Mark Rose, Michael Bovee, Haily Meyer
  • Publication number: 20200090216
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an online platform for out of home advertising. The online platform may allow various advertisers to search for advertising panels (e.g., digital billboards), select available time periods for an advertising panel, upload an advertisement (“ad”), and have the ad displayed on the advertising panel. An advertiser can search for advertising panels using one or more search parameters (e.g., geographical location and demography of target audience). The online platform may also allow advertising panel owners to publish their advertising panels, manage availability, and approve or reject ads for display. The online platform may generate reports relating to the advertising panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan Gudai, Jonathan Fine, Robert Stockham, Christopher Weiss, Eric Medlin
  • Patent number: 10529809
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a power semiconductor device includes: creating a doped contact region on top of a surface of a carrier; creating, on top of the contact region, a doped transition region having a maximum dopant concentration of at least 0.5*1015 cm?3 for at least 70% of a total extension of the doped transition region in an extension direction and a maximal dopant concentration gradient of at most 3*1022 cm?4, wherein a lower subregion of the doped transition region is in contact with the contact region and has a maximum dopant concentration at least 100 times higher than a maximum dopant concentration of an upper subregion of the doped transition region; and creating a doped drift region on top of the upper subregion of the doped transition region, the doped drift region having a lower dopant concentration than the upper subregion of the doped transition region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Matthias Kuenle, Daniel Schloegl, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Christoph Weiss
  • Publication number: 20190165151
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a method of manufacturing an insulated gate bipolar transistor in a semiconductor body. A first field stop zone portion of a first conductivity type is formed on a semiconductor substrate. A second field stop zone portion of the first conductivity type is formed on the first field stop zone portion. A drift zone of the first conductivity type is formed on the second field stop zone portion. A doping concentration in the drift zone is smaller than 1013 cm?3 along a vertical extension of more than 30% of a thickness of the semiconductor body upon completion of the insulated gate bipolar transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Oana Julia Spulber, Matthias Kuenle, Wolfgang Roesner, Christian Philipp Sandow, Christoph Weiss
  • Publication number: 20190157401
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a power semiconductor device includes: creating a doped contact region on top of a surface of a carrier; creating, on top of the contact region, a doped transition region having a maximum dopant concentration of at least 0.5*1015 cm?3 for at least 70% of a total extension of the doped transition region in an extension direction and a maximal dopant concentration gradient of at most 3*1022 cm?4, wherein a lower subregion of the doped transition region is in contact with the contact region and has a maximum dopant concentration at least 100 times higher than a maximum dopant concentration of an upper subregion of the doped transition region; and creating a doped drift region on top of the upper subregion of the doped transition region, the doped drift region having a lower dopant concentration than the upper subregion of the doped transition region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Matthias Kuenle, Daniel Schloegl, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Christoph Weiss
  • Patent number: D1059039
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Horst Christoph Weiss, Matthias Kleiber